Sarajevo Tunnel

The Sarajevo Tunnel, known on local signs as Tunel spasa (the Tunnel of Salvation) and also called the Tunnel of Hope or the Tunnel of Life, was the besieged city's link to the outside world during the Bosnian War. Running between the Sarajevo neighbourhoods of Dobrinja and Butmir, which earned it the name Tunnel D-B, it is now preserved as a museum.

The Army of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina dug the tunnel between March and June 1993, during the Siege of Sarajevo, when the Army of Republika Srpska had entirely cut the city off. It connected Sarajevo with territory held by the Bosnian army on the far side of Sarajevo Airport, an area controlled by the United Nations. Through it came food, war supplies and humanitarian aid, and through it people were able to leave. The tunnel also became a major route for bypassing the international arms embargo and supplying the city's defenders with weapons.