monuments
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Crane of Peace
The monument was erected and unveiled on 30 April 2009 on the Biograd na Moru waterfront as a memorial to the suffering of the Japanese people from the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It also commemorates the girl Sadako Sasaki, who fell ill with leukaemia caused...
Vagan Melik Karaganjan
Vagan Melik Karaganjan was a businessman, builder and pioneer of tourism in Biograd na Moru. An Armenian by origin, he served in the First World War in the Imperial Russian Army and later joined the anti-Bolshevik forces — the White Army under General Denikin. As Zadar was under...
Pope St. John Paul II
Karol Józef Wojtyła was born in Wadowice, a Polish town about 50 km from Kraków, on 18 May 1920. After completing his secondary education at the "Marcin Wadowita" higher school in Wadowice, he enrolled in 1938 at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. After feeling called to the...
World Ploughing Contest
From 14 to 15 September 2012, Biograd na Moru hosted the 59th World Ploughing Contest, which gathered 61 competitors from 31 countries. The contest was organised by the World Ploughing Organization (WPO), the Ministry of Agriculture, the Croatian Ploughing Contest Organising...
Obalac (Dockworkers Monument)
The port of Biograd has always been important — all kinds of cargo passed through it. The Biograd port had its own Harbour Master's Office and Port Health Service. According to the cadastral records, it had a series of small piers along the shore for loading and unloading cargo...
Monument to Fallen Fighters of the People's Liberation War
The Monument to the Fallen Fighters of the People's Liberation War and Victims of Fascism was erected in 1953 by the residents of Biograd na Moru and the Federation of Biograd Veterans of the People's Liberation War, as a token of gratitude and remembrance for fellow townspeople...
Monument to Dr. Franjo Tuđman
The monument to Dr. Franjo Tuđman, the first President of the Republic of Croatia, was erected in 2007. It was created by the academic sculptor Aleksandar Guberina.