Sarajevo is the European capital containing the Latin Bridge beside the site where Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914.
The Latin Bridge crosses the Miljacka River in central Sarajevo. Its present stone structure dates from the Ottoman period, although a crossing existed there earlier. The bridge became internationally famous because Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Sophie, nearby on 28 June 1914.
The assassination helped trigger the First World War after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia and a wider system of alliances drew other powers into the conflict. A museum near the bridge interprets the event and Sarajevo’s history.
The bridge was historically called the Princip Bridge during part of the Yugoslav period, but the name Latin Bridge was restored. It is not the bridge where the assassination literally took place; the shooting occurred beside the bridge, near the riverbank and the corner of a nearby street.