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VUKOVAR, Sept 23 (Hina) - An exhibition entitled "Croatian
Construction Heritage - in War and Reconstruction" was opened in
Vukovar on Wednesday as part of the European Heritage Day.
The Eltz castle has been used for the display of exhibits on
destroyed and reconstructed cultural monuments in Croatia.
Despite all principles of international conventions, Croatia's
cultural and sacral heritage was destroyed and devastated during
the Homeland War and aggression on Croatia (1991-1995), deputy
Croatian Culture Minister Ivan Saric said at the opening.
The Serb aggressor systematically and methodically destroyed towns
and villages, and paid special attention to the destruction of
sacral and other valuable monuments, buildings and historical
urban nuclei that stood in witness of Croatia's thousand-year
cultural identity, Saric said.
A special government commission in charge of establishing the
extent of war damage assessed that 2,440 cultural monuments,
churches and historical town centres from Dubrovnik (south
Adriatic) to Vukovar (eastern Croatia) sustained damage amounting
to a total of DM529.285.
Two hundred and thirty valuable monuments have been reconstructed
within an extremely short period of time and under difficult
conditions. The reconstruction of another 250 monuments is
underway, Saric said.
The exhibition was organised by the Croatian Ministry of Culture,
Administration for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, with the
cooperation of the Vukovar city leadership and the city's Museum.
Visitors will be able to see the exhibition until October 15.
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