A timber pavilion with a fretted gable stands among mature trees. Tables are laid with white cloths and set out under its canopy and across the gravel, and a woman in an apron waits in the doorway. The printed caption at the head of the card has faded past reading; only the Hungarian form of the town name survives.
About this place
The city's central park was laid out in 1895 on a swampy former branch of the Danube known as the Liman, until then a reedbed of willows, mosquitoes and frogs. Its small lake keeps an island named Erzsébet in honour of Empress Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, assassinated in 1898. The fountain sculpture of a nymph, the Girl with the Horn of Plenty by Đorđe Jovanović, was installed in 1912, and later decades added monuments to the poets Đura Jakšić (1982) and Miroslav Antić (1992). Covering four hectares with some 760 trees, the park is protected as a Monument of Nature.