Phoenix Monument, Slavonia, Croatia
4.0 (9 reviews) Spent < 1 hour Ranking #8 in Vukovar-Syrmia County Monuments & Statues
Memorial to the horrors of war
Strolling along Vukovar's very pleasant Danube Riverbank, we saw this monument set into a large patch of grass. It looks like a series of tombtones leaning on each other, but each one is distinct (like fingerprints or snow flakes). We walked around it from all angles, all sides, and examined each pillar. What an impact it made. When stopping at the general area on the Danube Riverbank where people swim, go to cafes on the beach, river cruise boats dock, and use the par course for exercise, visit this memorial. Lest we forget.
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Danube Riverbank, Vukovar, Croatia.
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Saturday, May 11, 2024, 7:09
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4lakelover908 5:00 PM Jul 16, 2022
Reminder of War
This building on the corner of the town centre has been left as a stark reminder of the War in 1991..
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4Gabriel H 5:00 PM Feb 5, 2018
A sobering homage to the victims of the war of independence
In the early 1990s, following the disintegration of Yugoslavia, the Serbian government tried to prevent the secession of Croatia. this resulted in a terribly bloody and cruel war. Eastern Croatia was heavily bombed and the population suffered heavy casualties. Eventually Croatia became an independent nation, but is still nrurses the many wounds of the war. The Phoenix monument consists of a dozen or so stone slabs, falling like dominoes in a public park by the Danube river. Each slab is illustrated by a carving on its side. Created by a Croatian artist living in the USA, it symbolizes the rise of the fallen.
