And if you haven't been there Kosovska Mitrovica, you know about the famous bridge on IbarThat small one bridge it is a favorite place of foreign reporters - they will write about it as a "symbol of the division" of one city and two peoples.
But is it really so? Or is the bridge just a pretty picture?
The bridge is still guarded by Italian soldiers. Anyone can cross it - on foot.
Albanians who come to the north or the few who live in the north and go to the southern part of Mitrovica pass through it most often, says Milica Radovanović from Mitrovica from the New Social Initiative.
We are sitting on a bench near the bridge, on the north side. During the conversation, a scooter passes by, and there are also cyclists. And so he laughs across the "closed" bridge.
"I was born in 1994, and I crossed the bridge for the first time at the age of 22," says Milica Radovanović for our newsletter Medjuvreme. "This bridge is a liminal space that you just don't go to, because of everything that's been going on. If you go down there and something happens to you, people will ask what you were doing down by the bridge."
The bridge as a scene
The Ibar became a hard border in 1999. In the north, some Albanians remained, and in southern Mitrovica, one Serbian family - priests.
"Whenever something happened in Mitrovica, whenever there were inter-ethnic conflicts and so on, it happened here on this bridge," Milica tells us.
More than once the bridge was supposed to be "open" - and when they say that, they mean open to four-wheeled motor vehicles. But every announcement was followed by chants, fights, and the bridge remained "closed".
Although there are four other bridges across the Ibar, this particular one, the central one, has become a symbol that the authorities in Pristina do not have everything under control. That's why Aljbin Kurti tried in every way to show his muscles.
And many Albanians from South Mitrovica took it as an encouragement to come north and rejoice. Some throw and whistle at women.
"Of course not all of them, but a large number of incidents in the north in recent years are directly related to the policies of this government. I believe that by opening this bridge, an even greater number of such people would come," says Milica.
The last frontier
Since nothing has happened since the opening of the bridge, Self-determination came up with a new idea - to build two more bridges around this one. It is not known how much it would cost. Nobody asked the Serbs anything.
"For Serbs, this is the last border because the north of Mitrovica is the last urban area in the whole of Kosovo where there is a significant number of Serbs. For most Serbs, this bridge is like the last stronghold," Radovanović points out.
But for Albanians, this bridge is a symbol of the unconquered, says Milica. "So the Serbs want this bridge to never be opened, the Albanians want it to be opened as soon as possible."
And what does she want? "Still not," he says. "There is no will to open the bridge out of good intentions, to be a metaphor for bringing people together. If it were to be opened, it would be pure triumphalism, and I am against it."
