Round windows are set in a row beside the entrance under the tower, and the upper storey of the long wing is lit by a continuous clerestory band above the marble facing. The saplings along the pavement are still tied to their stakes and the ground across the road is raw and unmade, so the palace had only just been finished. A street sign on a pole carries lettering too small to read.
About this place
The Banovina complex was built between 1936 and 1939 to a modernist design by architect Dragiša Brašovan, as the administrative seat of the Danube Banovina of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The main palace, clad in white marble from the island of Brač, runs 180 metres long with a 42-metre tower; the adjoining Banski dvor holds the ceremonial halls. Today the complex houses the Government and the Assembly of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina and is protected as a cultural monument.
- Date
- 1939–1945
- Coordinates
- 45.25354, 19.84971
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 2413 × 2976 px
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