"HPPs ON DRINA RIVER" Višegrad
HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT VISEGRAD
The Bridge on the Drina
"Along the bigger part of its course, the Drina river flows through narrow gorges between steep mountains or through deep canyons of steeply cut off banks. Only on few parts of the watercourse its banks widen into open valleys creating on one or both sides sunny, partially wavy landscapes suitable for cultivation and settlements. One such enlargement begins here near Višegrad, on the spot where the Drina springs out in a hasty curve from deep and narrow gorge formed by Butkove stijene (rocks) and Uzavničke planine (mountains). Turning point that the Drina forms at that place is unusually sharp and mountains are so steep and close from both sides that they look as a closed massif from which the river springs directly as from a dark wall."
Ivo Andrić: The Bridge on the Drina
Ivo Andric was the Bosnian and Yugoslav writer and diplomat. Nobel Prize winner for Literature 1961st for a “complete literary work about the history of a nation”, the novel, Bridge on the Drina (1945) as the peak of the offense. Born on 9 October 1892nd Docu near the Travnik in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Childhood was spent in Visegrad, where he finished elementary school. He died on 13 March 1975th in Belgrade.
