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Modern monuments & art

Concrete monuments of the Yugoslav era, bridges, towers, lighthouses and sculptures. Photogenic places that younger travellers love.

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18 places

Approach to the Dotrščina memorial park through the forest
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Dotrščina Memorial Park

Zagreb · forest memorial park with Vojin Bakić's steel monument

Front of the Kockica building in Zagreb, a ten-storey cube, photographed in 2025
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Kockica

Zagreb · 1968 modernist cube with rich interior art

The larger arch of the Krk Bridge over the Tihi kanal channel between the mainland and the islet of Sveti Marko
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Krk Bridge

Krk · 1980 concrete arch bridge, once a world record

The old Maslenica Bridge, a steel arch carrying the D8 road over the Novsko Ždrilo strait
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Maslenica Bridge

Maslenica · steel arch bridge rebuilt after 1991

The front of Mirogoj Cemetery in Zagreb with its entrance building
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Mirogoj Cemetery

Zagreb · arcades, domes and the 'Croatian Pantheon'

The Monument to the Revolution at Podgarić, with its wing-like arms spread across the landscape
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Monument to the Revolution of the People of Moslavina

Podgarić · abstract Yugoslav-era sculpture in the Moslavina hills

The Monument to the Sun on the Zadar waterfront, a circle of glass plates set into the stone paving and lit up
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Monument to the Sun

Zadar · solar-powered light circle next to the Sea Organ

The Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banija on Petrova Gora, photographed in 2010
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Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banija

Petrova Gora · Vojin Bakić's modernist memorial on a hilltop

The Monument to the Victory of the People of Slavonia under construction near Kamenska
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Monument to the Victory of the People of Slavonia

Kamenska · Vojin Bakić's vanished steel memorial on Papuk

The Pag Bridge, a slender concrete arch spanning the Adriatic strait of Ljubačka Vrata
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Pag Bridge

Pag Bridge · 1968 concrete arch battered by the bora

The Pelješac Bridge crossing the sea channel between Komarna and the Pelješac peninsula
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Pelješac Bridge

Pelješac · 2.4 km cable-stayed bridge opened in 2022

Savudrija lighthouse, the stone tower and its keeper's buildings on the cape
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Savudrija Lighthouse

Savudrija · the Adriatic's oldest working lighthouse, lit in 1818

The Sea Organ, the white marble steps that make music with the waves on the Zadar waterfront
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Sea Organ

Zadar · marble steps that play music with the sea

Stražica Lighthouse on the northern cape of the island of Prvić, near Krk
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Stražica Lighthouse

Prvić · 1875 lighthouse at the Senjska vrata passage

The Tomb of the People's Heroes at Mirogoj cemetery in Zagreb
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Tomb of the People's Heroes, Zagreb

Zagreb · Yugoslav-era memorial tomb at Mirogoj cemetery

Veli Rat Lighthouse with its white tower and yellow keeper's house on Dugi Otok
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Veli Rat Lighthouse

Dugi Otok · 1849 lighthouse with a yellow keeper's house

The Well of Life by Ivan Meštrović, a circle of bronze figures around a well in front of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb
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Well of Life

Zagreb · Meštrović's circle of bronze figures around a well

The summit area of Sljeme on Medvednica mountain above Zagreb
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Zagreb TV Tower

Sljeme · 169 m concrete tower watching over Zagreb