Eternal flame (Sarajevo)

The Eternal flame (Vječna vatra) is a memorial to the military and civilian victims of the Second World War in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The memorial was dedicated on 6 April 1946, the first anniversary of the liberation of Sarajevo from the four-year-long occupation by Nazi Germany and the Independent State of Croatia.

The memorial is located in the center of Sarajevo at the corner the Marshall Tito street and the main Sarajevo pedestrian street, Ferhadija.

In the very early morning of Sunday, 2 January 2011, the Vječna vatra was extinguished by (or self-extinguished before) a gathering of revellers, who quickly scattered. The flame was reignited less than 20 seconds later by a passing tourist.