A group of soldiers in Hungarian army uniform pose in two rows on a tree-lined boulevard, one row standing and the other seated or reclining on the pavement in front of them. A shop sign reading Hajzer is visible above a storefront on the left, where a couple of men in civilian dress stand watching. The trees along the boulevard are bare of leaves, and multi-story buildings with shuttered windows run the length of the street behind the group.
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
- 1941
- Coordinates
- 45.25370, 19.84297
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 536 × 367 px
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