1929Iodine Spa
The Iodine Spa, With Two Cancelled Stamps
The Iodine Spa. A real photo card with two postage stamps and their cancellations struck on the picture side. The young trees along the street are bare of leaves.
About this place
Iodine-rich mineral water was struck here in 1897 during drilling for drinking water near the Futog forest. A spa was built from 1908 and opened in 1910, its Secession-style main buildings designed by the Budapest architect Imre Francsek. The complex, which included the Park hotel and a bathhouse, was enlarged in 1931 and remained a well-known resort into the 1960s; its central pool closed in 1977. The buildings today house the Special Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, the only specialised rheumatology institution in Vojvodina, and the whole ensemble is protected as a cultural-historical complex.
On the card
Нови Сад Артеско Јодно Купатило / Novi Sad Artesko Jodno Kupatilo
Novi Sad, the artesian iodine baths. Printed in Cyrillic and Latin on the same line of the card.
- Date
- 1929
- Coordinates
- 45.24982, 19.82854
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1908 × 1196 px
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