A hand-tinted panoramic postcard looks north across the Danube from a restaurant terrace on the Petrovaradin bank, the terrace tables and white wire chairs standing empty in the foreground between cast-iron lamps. Across the water the city runs from the tall spire of the Name of Mary church to a domed church tower at the right, with post-war blocks and a long white office building among the older roofs, while the city bank below is an open sandy foreshore heaped with stone. At the right a steel lattice bridge carries a bus over the river, the post-war crossing that stood where the Varadin bridge stands now.
About this place
The town on the right bank of the Danube facing Novi Sad, gathered around its great fortress. A Roman fortress called Cusum stood here in the 1st century, and the medieval town is first recorded as Peturwarod (Pétervárad) in 1237. The Ottomans took it after a two-week siege in 1526, and it passed definitively to the Habsburgs in the 1690s, becoming the garrison town of Peterwardein; Prince Eugene of Savoy defeated the Ottoman army beneath its walls in 1716. The Baroque lower town (Podgrađe) still stands under the fortress walls. Long administered separately from Novi Sad, Petrovaradin lost its last separate municipal status when the city statute of March 2019 merged it fully into the City of Novi Sad.
- Date
- by October 1961
- Coordinates
- 45.25000, 19.86700
- Source
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs - képeslapok
- Credit
- Zempléni Múzeum, Szerencs
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 2480 × 1541 px
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