A Volkswagen saloon of the oval-window kind stands on a paved walk, a young man in sunglasses and a white shirt leaning against its wing with a jacket over his arm. Two other men in suits walk along the path behind. Trees and a wooded slope fill the background, with a low retaining wall along the edge of the walk.
About this place
The city's central park was laid out in 1895 on a swampy former branch of the Danube known as the Liman, until then a reedbed of willows, mosquitoes and frogs. Its small lake keeps an island named Erzsébet in honour of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, assassinated in 1898. The fountain sculpture of a nymph, the Girl with the Horn of Plenty by Đorđe Jovanović, was installed in 1912, and later decades added monuments to the poets Đura Jakšić (1982) and Miroslav Antić (1992). Covering four hectares with some 760 trees, the park is protected as a Monument of Nature.
- Date
- 1959
- Coordinates
- 45.25533, 19.85138
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1118 × 794 px
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