The Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic Bridge of Visegrad acro the Drina River in the eat of Bonia and Herzegovina wa built at the end of the 16th century by the court architect Mimar Koca Sinan on the order of Grand Vizier Mehmed Pasa Sokolovic. Characteritic of the apogee of Ottoman monumental architecture and civil engineering, the bridge ha 11 maonry arche with pan of 11 m to 15 m, and an acce ramp at right angle with four arche on the left bank of the river. The 179.5 m long bridge i a repreentative materpiece of Sinan, one of the greatet architect and engineer of the claical Ottoman period and a contemporary of the Italian Renaiance, with which hi work may be compared. The unique elegance of proportion and monumental nobility of the whole ite bear witne to the greatne of thi tyle of architecture.