The shopfront under the corner is lettered in Hungarian for a pharmacy, with a second word beside it, which fits the wartime Hungarian administration and the boulevard's name in those years. A five-storey block with a rounded corner carries a sculptural group of horses on its roof, standing at the head of a boulevard lined with pollarded trees.
About this place
Queen Mary Boulevard was cut through the eastern edge of the old town in 1928 as the approach to the new Prince Tomislav bridge, and it is the street now called Bulevar Mihajla Pupina. Making it meant clearing the ground between the centre and the river: the church of St John Nepomuk, which stood at Brukšanac, the small work that had guarded the pontoon bridge, was pulled down for it. The boulevard took its name from Queen Marija, consort of King Aleksandar I, and lost it after the Second World War, when it was renamed for the physicist Mihajlo Pupin. It opened the line along which the city finally reached the Danube.
- Date
- 1942
- Coordinates
- 45.25370, 19.84297
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1303 × 801 px
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