RUDO: FROM OTTOMAN CARAVANS TO PARTISAN BRIGADES
Rudo boasts a rich history, highlighted by several notable details. Among them is the existence of a bridge within its territory that predates the famous Višegrad Bridge. Additionally, the first agricultural cooperative in Bosnia and Herzegovina was founded in one of its villages.
At the beginning of World War II, Rudo was one of only three places in Europe, alongside Moscow and London, where the Supreme Command of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia was stationed.
Dolovi is located fifteen kilometers from Rudo, above the main road leading to Višegrad and Ustiprača. A rough dirt road leads to what was once a strategic bridge on the caravan routes of the Ottoman Empire.
This neglected national monument on the Viševski Potok was built in the mid-16th century by order of the Grand Vizier Mehmed Pasha Sokolović, who was originally from the village of Sokolovići near Rudo. The bridge is 11.5 meters long, 2.5 meters wide, and seven meters high.
In November 1876, when the Lim River flooded the old town of Rudo, the Austro-Hungarian authorities began constructing a new settlement on a safer location.
The significance of Rudo as a border town was recognized by the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which led to the construction of a narrow-gauge railway.
The abandoned railway station building at Uvac, which is a smaller replica of a building in Vienna, stands as a testament to this history.
Rudo is also proud of the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, built 112 years ago, featuring a clock from 1936.
In Štrpci, there is a national monument—a wooden church dedicated to the Holy Prophet Elijah, constructed between 1875 and 1879.
On December 21, 1941, the First Proletarian Shock Brigade of the National Liberation Army of Yugoslavia was formed in Rudo, with a museum collection dedicated to its wartime journey housed in the Cultural Center.
