A high summer view north across the Danube from the walls of Petrovaradin. The Marshal Tito bridge runs the width of the frame on its stone piers, a riveted steel truss over the main channel giving way to a lighter lattice approach on the Petrovaradin side, with a few figures walking the footway. Beyond it the city spreads flat to the horizon: the twin spires and the tower of the churches at the left, a taller block and a factory chimney at the right, and a row of new apartment slabs standing along the quay above a broad new embankment. In the middle distance the lower fortress terrace has been laid out as a park, with fresh paths, mown grass, young trees and a brick revetment stepping down toward the water. Three girls in patterned summer dresses stand at the parapet with their backs to the camera, and two young men sit on the coping a little further along, one stretched out on his side. The foreground is the fortress's own worn brick paving.
About this place
The Marshal Tito bridge carried road and rail traffic over the Danube between Novi Sad and Petrovaradin, on the crossing now occupied by the Varadin bridge. The first permanent bridge here, named for Prince Tomislav, was built between 1921 and 1928; Yugoslav forces mined it in 1941, the German occupiers rebuilt it, and it was destroyed again during their retreat in 1944. The replacement went up quickly after the war, at first with timber trestle approaches carried on wooden piles, and Josip Broz Tito opened it in January 1946, which is when it took his name. NATO aircraft destroyed the bridge on 1 April 1999, and the 304 metre Varadin bridge opened on the same crossing in September 2000.
- Date
- 1965
- Coordinates
- 45.25463, 19.85729
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1750 × 1253 px
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