Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Heading out tomorrow to Zadar

Eddie and I are going to Croatia tomorrow to watch a little Davis cup tennis (US vs. Croatia). While we are there, Jane is joining us and we will see some sites.  These are two we will on one of the days.

Plitvička Lakes - a cool national park.


Petrova Gora - Monument to the Uprising of the People of Kordun and Banija

It is real disrepair, and and I want to see it before it is gone. It was an old Yugoslavian monument to the anti-nazi / anti-fascist resistance fighters in WWII. There are a number of these brutalist style statues and monuments in the old Yugoslavia (now Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia (FYROM) and Kosovo). I have taken pictures of lots of them, but this one is close by where we are traveling and I have never seen it.  We should see it soon because the steel is being stripped.

I saw the plans for this in the Yugoslavian show at Moma. It was a museum as well, although abandoned right after the break up of Yugoslavia (1991).