Hotel Europe (Sarajevo)

Hotel Europe
Former names	Hotel Evropa (1882–1992) Hotel Europe (2008–present)
General information
Location	Stari Grad, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Address	8 Vladislava Skarića Street Sarajevo 71000, B-H Federation, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Opening	12 December 1882
Owner	Rasim Bajrović
Management	Europa d.d.
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Karel Pařík (1882) Sead Gološ (2007 renovation)
Other information
Number of rooms	160
Number of suites	14
Website
Hotel Europe

Hotel Europe (originally known as Hotel Evropa) is a historic hotel in central Sarajevo.

Built in the early days of the forty-year Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the hotel holds a special place in the city's lore as its first modern hospitality venue. Over its almost century and a half long existence, the hotel saw many changes often brought upon by sudden geopolitical events, reflecting the city's turbulent political and social history.

For sixty years, from its grand opening in 1882 until World War II, Hotel Evropa was owned and run by the Jeftanović family, father and son Gliša [sr] and Dušan, respectively, Serb merchants and industrialists from Sarajevo. During the communist period in Yugoslavia from 1945 until 1990, the hotel was nationalized and run by various state-owned entities such as HTP Evropa. After the Bosnian War, the property has been re-privatized in 2006 by the Sandžak-born Bosniak businessman Rasim Bajrović [mk] who re-opened the venue in 2008, this time under the modified name Hotel Europe.^[1]