Balkans
Croatia
County of Osijek-Baranja

Tvrđa

Tvrđa is the old town of the city of in Croatia. It is the best-preserved and largest ensemble of Baroque buildings in Croatia and consists of a Habsburg star fort built on the right bank of the .
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Osijek Archaeological Museum and The City Guard in Osijek.

Museum
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is an archaeological museum in , . It is located in Tvrđa. It consists of two buildings: and Brožan House.

Castle
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The City Guard is the name of the building which formerly housed the city guard of , . It is located in Tvrđa. Today, the building houses the Archaeological Museum Osijek, a local museum focusing on the history of the city.

Monument
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is a stone statue representing the Holy Trinity in , . It is located in Tvrđa, on Holy Trinity Square.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Osijek and Podravlje.

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is a city in Eastern . is the largest city and the economic and the cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja county.

Village
is a settlement in the City of in . In 2021, its population was 348.

Suburb
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is a city district of , . It has 16,520 inhabitants distributed in 6,210 households. Day of the city district is on 5 July, on feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius. Its name in Croatian literally means "New Town".

Tvrđa

Latitude
45.56051° or 45° 33′ 38″ north
Longitude
18.69578° or 18° 41′ 45″ east
Population
6,160
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
Open location code
8FQWHM6W+68
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5794313025
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
3318838
Wiki­data ID
Q1815788
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Tvrđa” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Tvrđa”
  • Chinese: “特夫爾達”
  • Croatian: “Tvrđa”
  • Croatian: “Utvrda Osijek”
  • Czech: “Tvrđa”
  • Dutch: “Tvrđa”
  • French: “Tvrđa”
  • Galician: “Tvrđa”
  • German: “Burg Osijek”
  • German: “Die Festung in Osijek”
  • German: “Festung Osijek”
  • German: “Festung”
  • German: “Tvrđa”
  • Hungarian: “Eszék vára”
  • Italian: “Tvrđa”
  • Macedonian: “Тврдина (Осиек)”
  • Macedonian: “Тврдина”
  • Polish: “Tvrđa”
  • Polish: “Tvrða”
  • Portuguese: “Tvrđa”
  • Serbian: “Тврђа”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tvrđa”
  • Spanish: “Tvrda”
  • Spanish: “Tvrđa”
  • Swedish: “Festung Essegg”
  • Swedish: “Tvrda”
  • Swedish: “Tvrđa”
  • Swedish: “Tvrdja”

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Notable Places Nearby

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Tvrđa”. Photo: Espino Family, CC BY-SA 2.0.