A large group of men, women and children poses outside the Gostionica kod Kamile, the Camel Inn, in 1900. The low corner building carries its Serbian Cyrillic name across the façade, with a painted camel sign above the corner entrance, while a horse-drawn carriage waits at the left. The inn stood at the northern end of Lebarski sokak, today's Svetozara Miletića Street, at its junction with Jovana Subotića, opposite the Greek Catholic church. During the second half of the nineteenth century it became one of Novi Sad's best-known literary and political meeting places. Its long-time proprietor was Petar Jovičić, known as Pera Kamila. Svetozar Miletić, Jovan Jovanović Zmaj and other writers, journalists and public figures gathered there, and a room remembered as Miletić's hall was decorated with paintings by Đura Jakšić. In 1880 Jovičić donated two original Jakšić paintings from the inn to Matica srpska.
About this place
Lebarski sokak, the bread sellers' lane, is the old name of today's Miletićeva street, which runs between Zmaj Jovina and Jovana Subotića in the old core of Novi Sad. It appears under that name on city plans from the middle of the 18th century, taken from the bread sellers who traded in that part of town. Hungarian and German usage translated the name directly, as Kenyér utca and Brodgasse, and postcards of the street carry both forms. After the First World War it was renamed for the Serbian politician Svetozar Miletić, and it briefly bore the name of Lajos Kossuth during the Hungarian occupation of 1941 to 1944.
On the card
ГОСТИОНИЦА КОД КАМИЛЕ
The Camel Inn
- Date
- 1900
- Coordinates
- 45.25741, 19.84448
- Source
- Museum of the City of Novi Sad, Dušanka Marković, Vinogradarstvo i vinarstvo Fruške gore, 2011, p. 114, fig. 76
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 833 × 348 px
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