Right next to the big Zetra sports arena at it’s bigger parking lot, there is a large Graffiti Hall of Fame that turns the area into an open-air gallery for the local urban art scene, also because it is the main spray hall in the city. The Juan Antonio Samaranch Olympic Hall was built for the 1984 Winter Olympics and burned partially down during the siege of Sarajevo. After the war, the arena was rebuilt and reopened in 1999. The graffiti in the surrounding area thus adorns a place that, like few others, epitomizes Sarajevo’s turbulent history: Olympic glory, destruction, and reconstruction converge here with a modern urban art scene.
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