The war damage is still very obvious throughout most of the city.
Hospital: The hospital in Vukovar is the same one used during the siege of the city. Make sure to act politely and respectively because after the "Fall of Vukovar" Serbian army dragged all wounded people including children and massacred them at the "OvÄara" site, making this building a living UN critic as UN forces located outside the hospital did nothing to prevent it. The above-ground portion of the hospital has been restored into a typical modern facility, but the basement area which was the only part of the hospital used during the siege due to the continuous shelling of the above-ground parts of the hospital has been made into a museum. The museum is very well-designed and gives a chilling feel of what the hospital was like during the siege. While you're in the hospital, if you're lucky you may see Dr. Vesna Bosanac, who was the hospital director during the war and still works there and is regarded as something of a national hero in Croatia because she saved many lives.
Tank Graveyard Street: A location of one of a greatest battles in Europe. In the time of a siege Serbian army ,equiped with 110 tanks tried a breakthrough with tanks against a lightly armed Croatians led by national hero Blago Zadro, but it resulted in a greatest tank destruction site ever, with tanks mostly being destroyed on many unconventional ways . Today, although rebuilt it still gives an unexplaineable chilling feel of a battle, and one tank is left as a memorial.
Museum: The museum in Vukovar placed in the baroque Eltz castle, is horribly damaged from the war, but it is still in use, and there are plans to reconstruct the museum in 2009. Aside from the war damage, the museum has various exhibits to see. Many of the pieces are archaeological artifacts, including a right-footed ceramic shoe from several thousand years ago VuÄedol culture that the museum staff seem to be particularly proud of. The museum also periodically exibits paintings from the Bauer collection which is considered one of the more significant collections of Croatian modern art.
OvÄara massacre site: The OvÄara field is a short drive from the main area of Vukovar. After the fall of the city to the Serb-dominated Yugoslav National Army, the Serb soldiers gathered 200 of the hospital's doctors and injured patients and massacred them in the OvÄara field. Today at the massacre site there is a memorial and a nearby museum.
