Among the more curious sights in Trebinje, a small town in southeast Bosnia, close to the border with Montenegro and Croatia, the pigeon post office is surely the most intriguing.

It was the work of Austro-Hungarian officials who, at the end of the 19th century, after occupying Bosnia, ordered the planting of the immense plane trees that today are the main symbol of the town.

They also built Bosnia’s last remaining pigeon post office. The only one of its kind in Bosnia, today it is managed by the Herzegovina Museum.

Though now completely restored, its old feathered postmen may have to wait a bit before they resume their old duties. The only pigeons to be seen there now are birds landing by accident.