Dudik Memorial Park, Memorial complex and park in Vukovar, Croatia
Dudik Memorial Park is a memorial complex and park in Vukovar featuring five conical stone towers approximately 18 meters tall, each topped with copper. Twenty-seven stone blocks shaped like boats surround the towers in a deliberate arrangement.
Between 1941 and 1943, the site witnessed executions during World War II. The memorial park was completed in 1980 by architect Bogdan Bogdanović as a response to these tragic events.
The park's name comes from the mulberry trees (dudovi) planted on the meadow where it stands, about five kilometres from Vukovar's centre in the Mitnica neighbourhood. Epitaphs carved on the stone flowers address the visitor and the old mulberries, including lines asking the traveller heading into the future to stop and drink the clarity of water, the beauty of freedom and the love of those who gave their lives for it.
The park lies about five kilometres from Vukovar's centre, in the Mitnica neighbourhood, on a meadow planted with mulberry trees. The HNK Mitnica Vukovar football ground and the Mitnica sports centre stand next to the monument. The monument and park were rebuilt between 2015 and 2016 after wartime devastation and later use as a football field.
The monument's five slender cones are surrounded by dozens of stone flowers bearing engraved epitaphs, among them a verse addressing the old mulberry trees (dudovi) that gave the site its name. The park lies about five kilometres from Vukovar's centre, in the Mitnica neighbourhood.
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