“Golubica” monument

The names of 121 man from Velika Gorica, fallen Croatian defenders, are carved into the plaque of the “Dove” monument, which is located in front of the central city cemetery in Velika Gorica. This monument, which preserves the truth about the Homeland War, the names of the citizens who laid down their lives for a free Croatia is forever snatched away into oblivion, is the work of the academic sculptor Mladen Mikulin.

Here, the author skilfully combined the symbol of peace and freedom – the dove and the “gate from Krč – the all-time symbol of Turopolje into a harmonious whole. The dove is located on a beam supported by two columns inclined towards each other. These columns represent the karst gate of Turopoljski Lug – a unique monument to human work. Under the door and the dove there is a granite monolith on which the names of the fallen defenders from Velika Gorica are engraved.

The monument was erected on August 24, 2008. Every year, during national holidays, holidays and memorial days, Croatian veterans are honored by laying wreaths and candles at the “Dove” monument so that the victims of the war will never be forgotten.

The author of the monument, Mladen Mikulin, was born in 1958 in Velika Gorica. He lives and works in Vukovina. He graduated in sculpture in 1986 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He exhibited at numerous solo and group exhibitions and was the winner of several awards and recognitions. He is the author of a number of public monuments in Croatia and abroad, and in Zagreb the sculptures “Man with a Wheel” were installed in the Alley of Sculptures on the Sava Embankment, “Falcon” in Maksimir Park, “Fra Grga Martić” in Martićeva Street and a bust of Dragutin Tadijanović in front of the elementary school which bears his name.