20의 부코바르-시르미아가지 명소 & 주요 장소

인상적이고 으스스합니다. 꼭 봐야 합니다.

It's visible from afar. It commemorates the 1991 massacre.

A symbol of resistance

Beautiful view from the water tower on the Dunav river and the city of Vukovar

In 1991, during the battle for Vukovar, the water tower was badly damaged by Serbian forces. It received about 640 enemy missiles and became a symbol of the city's suffering and resistance

It was erected in honor and memory of all those who gave their lives for a free and independent Croatia. The author of the memorial cross is the Croatian sculptor Šime Vidulin from Pula. The cross was placed in October 1998. It is a gift from the Croatian Navy of the Pula assembly area.

Until 2012, it was an ordinary village, like others in the east of the Republic of Croatia, but in the fall of 2012, in the orchard of a family house, fossil remains of a mammoth and a woolly rhinoceros were found. It's a story that attracted numerous media from the entire region, but it didn't end there, in the fall of 2016, on the same date, not far from the first site, new fossil remains of a woolly mammoth were found.

During the three months of the Battle of Vukovar, up to 8,000 shells fell every day, a total of six million projectiles. The siege of the city by the Yugoslav People's Army lasted 87 days and ended on November 18, 1991. When the soldiers marched into the now almost completely destroyed city that day, 15,000 people were still living there. Many of them had sought refuge in the Vukovar hospital during the bombardment.