As a part of their route to Sarajevo, archduke Frany Ferdinand and countess Sophie Chotek arrived to hotel “Bosna” on 25. 6. 1914, countess Sophie in the morning, and archduke Franz Ferdinand in the evening, respectively. Hotel was located in Banja Ilidža (Bad Ilidža), a tree-lined spa town at the source of the Bosna river. It was a fancy spa hotel with electric lighting, sulfur baths, Turkish baths, Roman ruins and mosaics, a carousel, three lawn-tennis courts, a shooting gallery, bingo, billiards, a game room, rental horses with guides, fireworks, and carriage rides down a magnificent 3 kilometer tree-lined grand Alley to the pools of Vrelo Bosne. Other modern amenities included a post office, telegraph, and telephone. The Second Battalion of the 92nd K.u.k. Infantry Regiment took up guard duties around the hotel complex and raised a flag with the Imperial Habsburg double eagle. The royal couple was ensconced in a suite of rooms especially furnished with luxurious Ottoman-style lamps, carpets, drapes, needlework, handicrafts, and furniture supplied by the prominent Sarajevo merchant Elias B. Kabiljo, a Sephardic Jew. The archduke and countess hosted a gala dinner for the great and the good of Sarajevo there, on June 27th 1914. In the morning of June, 28th, the couple breakfasted before retreating to the private chapel that had been specially created for them in their living quarters in the Hotel Bosna. After a prayer, a few minutes before 9.30am, they set off for the Ilidža railway station.