October 23 (SeeNews) - Bosnia's Olympic Centre (OC) Jahorina will develop two new ski centres next year, local media reported.
The Manjaca ski centre will spread on 75,000 square metres near Mrkonjic Grad some 60 km south of the city of Banja Luka, while Igrista will be built on an area of 190,000 square metres near Vlasenica, about 160 km south-east of Banja Luka, business news portal Capital.ba reported on Tuesday.
The planned two ski centres are part of a 150 million marka ($85.3 million/76.7 million euro) project for which OC Jahorina has agreed to receive financing from the government of Bosnia's Serb Republic entity, local media reported earlier this month. The project also includes two new gondola lifts - from East Sarajevo to Jahorina mountain and from the town of Pale to Jahorina.
"Regardless of all the active projects at the moment, OC's management plans even bigger and more serious projects for next year on the territory of the whole country and not only Jahorina", Capital.ba quoted a representative of OC Jahorina as saying.
Manjaca will include a 264 metres high six-seater gondola, with a length of some 1,000 metres and capacity of 3,000 skiers per hour, as well as a 100 metre long ski conveyor belt with a capacity of 1,000 skiers per hour. The ski centre will have two ski runs with a total length of some 2.5 kilometres.
The Igrista ski centre will have a six-seater gondola, with a length of 820 metres and capacity of 3,000 skiers per hour. It will also have a ski conveyor belt with a capacity of 1,500 skiers per hour. The ski centre will feature three ski runs with a total length of some 4.75 kilometres.
Mrkonjic Grad and Vlasenica are towns in the Serb Republic, one of two autonomous entities forming Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other one is the Federation.
(1 euro = 195583 marka)