Cities & Towns in Slavonia, Croatia

15 cities & towns in Slavonia, Croatia, with map links and honest tips. Browse the best city & town spots across the region.

The towns of Slavonia are the heart of any trip, stone streets, harbours, squares and a café culture that asks you to slow down. These 15 cities and towns are the ones worth building a day, or a whole stay, around.

The 15 best cities & towns in Slavonia

• Beli Manastir, the largest town of baranja, the easternmost corner of croatia between the drava and the danube, named after a 14th century monastery that once stood here. map
• Belišće, an industrial town on the drava that grew around a large timber and wood processing company, the basis of the town since the late 19th century. map
• Donji Miholjac, a slavonian town on the drava border with two castles built by the mailáth family, now a quiet river crossing into hungary. map
• Ilok, croatia’s easternmost town, on the danube border with serbia, famed for its traminac white wine cellars and its medieval fortress rebuilt after the 1991 war. map
• Kutjevo, a slavonian town famous for its cistercian abbey founded in 1232 and the wine cellars beneath it, among the oldest continuously used wine estates in croatia. map
• Našice, a slavonian town that was the seat of the counts pejačević, whose castle still stands. map
• Nova Gradiška, a town founded in the 18th century as a habsburg military settlement on the slavonian frontier, originally settled in part by german and italian colonists. map
• Orahovica, a slavonian town beneath the ruined ružica grad, one of the largest medieval fortresses in croatia, and the surrounding orchards that give the town its name (orah means walnut). map
• Osijek, tvrđa. map
• Otok, a town in the vukovar syrmia plain whose name simply means island, after the old river meanders that once cut it off at flood time. map
• Pleternica, a požega region town at the meeting of the londža and orljava rivers, a long standing market and craft centre. map
• Valpovo, a slavonian town whose baroque prandau normann castle and park were built on the site of an older ottoman and medieval stronghold. map
• Virovitica, a former medieval county seat of slavonia, dominated by the rococo pejačević castle, one of the best preserved noble residences in the region. map
• Vukovar, a danube city that became the symbol of the croatian war of independence after an 87 day siege in 1991 destroyed much of the town and cost over 1,600 lives. map
• Županja, a sava river border town with bosnia, a former habsburg military frontier post whose old guardhouse is now a museum of the border soldier tradition. map

Practical tips

Shoulder season, May or September, gives you the charm without the cruise ship crowds. Mornings are quieter and cooler, and the best cafés and doorways are usually one alley off the main street.

When to go

For cities & towns in Slavonia, aim for May to October, with June and September the quietest warm months. Bring water and shade, facilities are thin at the more remote spots.

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