Jajce (Cyrillic: Јајце) is a town and municipality in central Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation. It is on the crossroads between Banja Luka, Mrkonjić Grad and Donji Vakuf, on the confluence of the rivers Pliva and Vrbas.


Renovation and the current look of Jajce

Jajce was heavily bombed by the JNA during the Bosnian war 1992-1995. Most of the houses and government building were totally ruined as the Serbs bombed the city in 1992. The city was under serb control then until the Croatian army retook the city in the summer of 1995.

After the war, renovations of the city has begun, and most of the houses now are renovated or under renovation. Sadly, because of the current situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the economy of the Jajce municipality is bad and the renovations have taken a long time.

On recent day, UNESCO have started to renovate the historical parts of the city together with a Swedish organisation named Kulturarv utan gränser (Cultural Heritage without Borders).

The main project of the Swedish company is to renovate the old traditional Bosnian houses which symbolised the panoramic view of the city and the waterfall. As of 2006, most of the houses are rebuilt but there is still work to be done.

UNESCO have just started on their work on Jajce, and their aim is to fix up the waterfall on the way that it was before the war. UNESCO also have started a project together with the Bosnians, to clean up in the fortress on the top of Jajce.

As of summer 2006, works are ongoing in the fortress where the grass and trees in the fortress are going to be cleaned up and the aim is to fix up the fortress as it was before.

There are currently some tourist project in the city where it is open for visitors to visit the catacomb in Jajce, where the Bosnian kings used to be and it is open for visitors to visit the fortress where you not only can look at the whole city of Jajce and the surrounding, you can also walk in the prison chambers where it used to be a prison in the fortress where there were prisoners.

A hotel and supermarket have also been built in the city since the war, but the economy remains extremely weak.