1970Liberty Square
Crossing Liberty Square Beside the Vojvođanska Bank, 1970
The bank's name is set in Serbian Latin letters alone, with no Cyrillic beside it, which is how public lettering ran by 1970, and it appears twice over, cut into the building and again on a board further along. A crowd is crossing on the zebra with a policeman standing among them, and a Volvo bus pulls in with a suburb on its destination blind.
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.
On the card
1. KLISA / VOJVODJANSKA BANKA
- Date
- 1970
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1000 × 723 px
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