The Old town Vranduk, for centuries known as the hardest part of Bosnia, the gate of Bosnia, is placed 14 kilometres on the west of Zenica, on a route to Doboj. It was built on a sheer rock above the river Bosnia. Vranduk represents one of many medevial Bosnian towns with intensive political, economic and cultural life. Vranduk is composed of a citadel with the main tower and a protective wall, surrounding the interior of the medevial town. Vranduk had got a crafting and trading settlement on the spot where the village Varo拧i拧te is placed nowadays (3 kilometres downstream from Vranduk). Damaged by time, Vranduk was forgotten until 1999. In 1999., Zenica City Museum in co-operation with the government and some local communities begins with the conservation and restoration works on the Old town Vranduk. In 2005., Old town Vranduk has been declared a national monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
