Two identical framed portraits of a man in military uniform hang on the piers of the entrance hall, each with a small lettered plaque beneath it that will not resolve at this size. The occupying administration had put them up in a palace built as the seat of the Yugoslav banovina. Everything else is as the building was finished: marble-clad walls, a chequered black and white floor, steel-framed glazed screens, and a long straight flight of stairs under a brass handrail on close-set balusters.
About this place
The Banovina complex was built between 1936 and 1939 to a modernist design by architect Dragiša Brašovan, as the administrative seat of the Danube Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The main palace, clad in white marble from the island of Brač, runs 180 metres long with a 42-metre tower; the adjoining Banski dvor holds the ceremonial halls. Today the complex houses the Government and the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and is protected as a cultural monument.
- Date
- 1942
- Coordinates
- 45.25354, 19.84971
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 983 × 660 px
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