A crowded river beach spreads along the near bank, where a roped-off swimming area is marked by a line of floating buoys and a wooden diving platform stands on pontoons at the water's edge. Dozens of small figures wade in the shallows and stand along a floating walkway, while rowboats lie beached in rows along the shore and a paddle steamer sits moored in the channel beyond. Hills rise on the far bank in the distance, and the whole print carries a warm sepia tone.
About this place
Štrand is the city beach of Novi Sad, on the Danube near the Freedom Bridge, and its name comes straight from the German word Strand. It opened officially in 1911 on a sandbar called Poloj that had served to water livestock and then held Stengl's bathing place, with separate sections for men and women; an organised lifeguard and swimming instruction service followed in 1912. The beach runs 700 metres and covers about 14 hectares, half sand and half green, with more than 830 cabins and over 400 trees, and it draws more than a million visitors between May and September. During the raid of January 1942, Hungarian forces brought arrested Serbs and Jews to the entrance of Štrand and killed them at the water's edge, pushing the bodies under the Danube ice.
- Date
- 1920s
- Coordinates
- 45.23631, 19.84654
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1412 × 906 px
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