Dear visitors,
Welcome to Vinkovci, the town lying on the banks of the Bosut in the gorgeosly rich and green Slavonian plain !
Welcome to the town of rich heritage in history and culture spreading over seven millennia, the town which has kept in memory the glory and decline of the greatest civilisations, the most atrocious wars and climate shocks.
The town core is still within the walls of the Roman settlement of "Colonia Aurelia Cibalae". Vinkovci was the birth olace of two Roman emperors - Valens and Valentinian. In the 3rd century the town was the seat of an early Christian bishopric. The two local saints, St. Eusebius and St. Polion, belong to this period.
Upon the end of the Middle Age the name of the town of Sveti Ilija was suppressed by its present secular name of Vinkovci, thus witnessing its Croatian inhabitants that had settled in the ruins of the ancient "Cibalae". Owing to the fact that Vinkovci became the military centre of the region in the Hapsburg Monarchy, it developed very fast and actually acquired its present baroque outlook.
The town is proud of its celebrities, such as Josip Šokčević, Croatian viceroy, Josip Runjanin, composer of the Croatian anthem, writers M. A. Relković, Ivan and Josip Kozarac, Vladimir Kovačić, Joza Ivakić, artists Vanja Radauš, Slavko Kopač, Albert Kinert, and many others.
The town is known for its flourishing sports clubs and its national festivals such as "Vinkovačke jeseni", "Commics Salon", "Festival of the Actor's".
Vinkovci is also proud of its school (eight primary and seven secondary schools, a 220 year old grammar school , Faculty of Agriculture), culture (Town Museum, Gallery of Arts, Town Library), sciences (Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences branch) and economy (food industry, wood processing and building materials industry, textile industry).
We hope that you will experience a part of our traditional hospitality and take home a pleasant memory of our town.
- Mayor Dr. Mladen Karlić - | 
