This city is the 2nd largest in the C.R. It is pronounced Burn-o. Our hotel has a beautiful view of many churches and every where you look from the balcony there are several steeples. The sad thing is that most of the people (I think Joe said about 90%) are atheist. Hardly anyone believes in God but there are churches everywhere. He says that the government pays for the upkeep of the churches and that no one goes to church except for Christmas and Easter.
We visited a castle on a hill that is across the street. It was once taken over by Hitler's men and so they left their Nazi marks on some of the walls. We love the bells that ring on the hour from many churches here and from the castle. It reminds me of the Sound of Music. There was a great story about an opposing army that was trying to take over the castle and they vowed that they would do it by a certain time. Someone told all the churches to ring their bells early and when they did the army quit and went home since they had not met their goal.
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