Zagreb to Vukovar

Today was a long and uneventful drive on fast toll roads, flat farmland with a brief stop in the town of Slavonski which sits on the River Save with Bosina just across on the other bank, (picture of the coat of arms of the town). Then continued to the city of Vukovar which is on the bank of the Danube river. This city has a long and at times, eventful history. Its been a Paleolithic settlement, a medieval fortress, and a royal seat. It rose from the devastation of an eighteenth century Turkish occupation to become one of the largest and most significant cities in Croatia. The Baroque buildings, which contained some outstanding symbols of Croatian cultural were faced with war in 1991, when the occupying Yugoslav National Army launched a half million missiles into the city, sometimes at the rate of 12,000 a day. Nowadays much restoration has taken place and the city is starting to revert to some of its former glory. Here a relaxing boat trip on the Danube where views of the restored buildings could be seen, including the main watertower and the church and monastery of St Phillip and Jacobe which was attacked during the war of 1991 and heavily damaged. Reconstructed through the help of Vukovar's Development Fund from 1998. It was blessed on October 27th 2013 and it now possesses a new organ and all of the required church inventory. Also a picture looking across the River Danube to Serbia with a memorial with names of the 2717 who died defending the city.Read more