2 stops in walking order

Museum

The baroque Eltz Manor on the Vukovar riverfront was reduced to a shell in the 1991 siege and painstakingly rebuilt to house the Vukovar City Museum. Its permanent exhibitions cover 8,000 years of Danube archaeology — including the celebrated Vučedol Dove — plus a solemn 1991 memorial wing.

~1 h 30 m at this stop

Monument

Riddled with more than 600 shell holes during the 1991 siege and deliberately left standing, Vukovar's water tower is Croatia's most powerful memorial to the Homeland War. A steel-and-glass staircase spirals up the scarred concrete shell to a viewing platform 50 metres above the Danube; a small museum at the base tells the story of the 87-day siege. Below the town, the Vučedol archaeological site adds 5,000 years of context.

~1 h 30 m at this stop