Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have flown to eastern Europe for a private visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The Hollywood couple has been staying in Venice, Italy over the last few weeks while Jolie films a role in her new movie The Tourist.

And the pair has taken advantage of a break in filming to fly to the capital city of Sarajevo on Sunday.

Pitt and Jolie will be escorted by officials from the United Nations children's organisation UNICEF on their trip, which is expected to include a trip to Srebrenica, the site of the worst atrocities in the 1990s war.

Aida Prljaca, UNICEF's representative in Sarajevo, tells website Sarajevo-X that the couple is on a "private visit".