The Bishop's Palace stands in full sun with its arcaded windows, onion topped corner pinnacles and iron railings. To the right a plain brick gable carries the shopfront PRODAJA VULKAN GVOZDJARA. A Zastava 750 and a Wartburg with a loaded roof rack stand at the kerb, two women pose for the camera, a boy watches, and a moped and a bicycle lean against the railings.
About this place
The residence of the Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Bačka, standing at the head of Zmaj Jovina street. The first episcopal palace here was built in 1741 under Bishop Visarion Pavlović next to the Cathedral Church and was destroyed in the bombardment of June 1849. The present palace was completed in 1901 to a design by architect Vladimir Nikolić, its facade blending Byzantine and Serbian medieval monastery motifs with the schooling of Vienna; Patriarch Georgije Branković attended its inauguration. Since 1984 a monument to the poet Jovan Jovanović Zmaj has stood in front of it.
On the card
PRODAJA VULKAN GVOZDJARA
- Date
- 1960-1968
- Coordinates
- 45.25700, 19.84790
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2000 × 1320 px
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