Throughout its history, Bosnia and Herzegovina has collected a wealth of legends about forbidden loves, tragic events and unhappy young women who pined for their beloved. One of the most beautiful is the life story of the young Safikada from Banja Luka.
There are several legends about the beautiful Safikaduna or Safikada, according to some stories it could have been the granddaughter of Ferhat Pasha Sokolović, but both this story and the legend differ depending on the source from which they come.
One of the legends says that it was a young woman who took her own life because of the unfulfilled relationship with a soldier stationed in the nearby fort: