A colour view looking down from a height across a block of old low buildings to new construction beyond. In the foreground a long ridge of worn tiled roofs runs diagonally across the frame, broken by chimneys, skylights, a tall rendered gable and a slender brick chimney stack, with lettering painted large on one flank and a shop sign standing out on another. Below them a colonnade of square piers carries a long canopy over a walkway where small figures are moving. To the right a busy street runs along shopfronts with awnings, pedestrians crowding the pavement and a kiosk at the kerb. Behind the old roofs a broad new road crosses the view, and beyond it stand long slab blocks of six and more storeys, flat roofed and regularly windowed, with further towers showing faintly behind them.
About this place
Liberation Boulevard, called in Novi Sad simply the Bulevar, runs from the railway station in the north of the city to the Liberty Bridge on the Danube. It was built in stages from 1962 to the late 1970s, cutting through a district of mostly old houses that had grown up in the 19th century, and the new railway station at its northern end opened on 31 May 1964. Until 1991 it carried the name Boulevard of 23 October, for 23 October 1944, the day units of the Novi Sad Detachment and the 7th Vojvodina Strike Brigade entered the city at its liberation. With six traffic lanes in two carriageways it is today the main traffic and business street of the city, and its name also stands for the informal district along it. This archive's photograph from the 1970s looks south along it from high above its northern end, toward the low ridge of Fruška Gora.
- Date
- 1960–1979
- Coordinates
- 45.26102, 19.83187
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 800 × 537 px
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