Workers’ Hall ( hr, Radnički dom, sr-Cyrl, Раднички дом) in

Vukovar Vukovar () ( sr-Cyrl, Вуковар, hu, Vukovár, german: Wukowar) is a city in Croatia, in the eastern region of Slavonia. It contains Croatia's largest river port, located at the confluence of the Vuka and the Danube. Vukovar is the seat of ...

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is a representative palace in the centre of the town which was completed in 1897. The building was originally built as a ''Hotel Grand'' designed by Serbian architect

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and in 1919 it was purchased by Workers Association and renamed to its contemporary name. In 1920 the building hosted the 2nd Congress of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. The building was heavily devastated during the

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in 1991.

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invested 1,64 million Euros into reconstruction of the building with re-opening ceremony in 2013 being attended by

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, Vice Chair of the

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Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez,

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and others. During the same year the building was returned from state into the property of the Town of Vukovar which was the owner of the building during the existence of

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