A raised view across the main square, thick with people. A four wheel tram motor car stands at the left on its rails with its trolley up, its side papered with printed bills and its dash carrying a number. Immediately beyond it a double deck bus is drawn up, its upper and lower windows likewise papered with notices, and past that a single deck bus and a lorry with an open display stand. Bunting hangs across the frontages behind and a long painted banner is strung above the vehicles. Flags on tall staffs stand at the left. The crowd fills the foreground and the middle distance, women in headscarves and coats, men in caps and overcoats, several carrying bags, a few gathered at a stall of flowers set on the cobbles. Behind them the square's buildings run away to the right.
About this place
The main square of Novi Sad, laid out as the town took shape in the 18th century. Under Austria-Hungary it bore the name of Emperor Franz Joseph; it became Liberation Square after 1918 and Liberty Square after the Second World War. The neo-Renaissance Town Hall (1893-1895) and the neo-Gothic Name of Mary Church (1893-1894, with a 72-metre tower) face each other across it, both designed by architect György Molnár. The Tanurdžić Palace on the square followed in 1933. The seven-metre bronze monument to Svetozar Miletić by Ivan Meštrović was erected in 1939, hidden during the wartime occupation, and returned to the square in late 1944.
- Date
- 1958
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 800 × 502 px
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