Jasenovac: Hotels and accommodation

Jasenovac is located in Lonjsko Polje Nature Park on the left bank of the Sava, opposite the mouth of the Una. Those wishing to book a hotel in Jasenovac can then continue searching for accommodation.

Cycling routes

The 77.8 km-long National Sava Cycling Route passes through Jasenovac towards Drenov Bok and continues in the direction of Novska. From Jasenovac, the SMŽ 1 Cycling Route continues along the settlements on the left bank of the Una at the confluence of the Una and Sava.

Culture

The Jasenovac Memorial Site is dominated by Bogdan Bogdanović’s Flower Monument. It includes earth mounds and depressions marking former camp structures and execution sites, an access path by the lake, a memorial train on the former camp railway, the Memorial Museum and the Education Centre. The permanent exhibition of the Jasenovac Memorial Museum focuses on individual personal fates in the context of mass crimes. The museum also preserves and presents material related to the Jasenovac camp and its prisoners. It was built immediately next to the inner area of the former Camp III Ciglana Jasenovac and opened on 4 July 1968.

The Jasenovac Education Centre was opened together with the Memorial Museum on 27 November 2006. There, young people learn to recognise, prevent and stop forms of violence, as well as to protect potential victims. The Education Centre also encourages visitors to reflect on the victims, causes and perpetrators of crimes, resistance to crimes and their own attitudes towards crimes.

Buildings of the former Kožara labour group have been preserved in the town of Jasenovac. The parish church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St Nicholas the Bishop in the centre of Jasenovac was built in 1829. The Feast of the Assumption is celebrated in Jasenovac with a procession whose route leads across Trg kralja Petra Svačića, along part of Preradovićeva Street and Štrosmajerova Street.

Geographical location

The information centre for Lonjsko Polje Nature Park in Krapje can be reached by leaving the motorway in the direction of Jasenovac, turning towards Drenov Bok at the intersection before the Sava bridge and Krapje; it is located at the beginning of the village at number 16.

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To the higher-level travel overview: Općina Jasenovac.