Olympic Museum Sarajevo (Villa Mandić)

The villa was completed in 1903 for the then politician and lawyer Nikola Mandić. It was designed by the Czech architect Karel Pařík, who at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries devoted himself to the comprehensive modernization and Europeanization of the then still oriental-looking city of Sarajevo. The magnificent multi-storey villa has a number of historical elements. striking facade with columns and tympanum, monumental entrance, windows with rubble, etc.In 1945 the villa was nationalized and used as the consulate of the United States of America. Eventually it became the seat of the Municipal Committee of the Union of Communists of Sarajevo.Since 1984 the villa has housed a museum for the Olympic Games in the Bosnian capital. The exhibition was carried out in a similar way to the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Between 1984 and 1992 there were 300 different exhibitions on the subject of sports.

The city stretches west-east on the Sarajevo plain in the midst of the Dinaric Mountains. The Miljacka River flows through the town; the Bosna rises west of the city in the municipality of Ilidža from a karst spring. The plain is surmounted by the mountains of Bjelašnica and Igman in the south-west and Jahorina and Trebević in the south-east.The city center is 511 meters above sea level. The suburbs reach up to over 900 meters. The mountains around the city are mostly forested and up to 2,000 meters high.
Source: Wikipedia