1911–1958Futoški Park
A tram on the reserved track under the trees
A single tram motor car comes down a single line of grass grown track laid on its own ground beside a road, framed by an avenue of mature trees in full leaf. The car is a short two axle vehicle with a clerestory free roof, a pantograph raised to the single overhead wire, a route disc mounted at the front and a destination board above the windscreen. The driver stands at the controls behind the glass. Wooden traction poles carrying bracket arms run away to the left along the verge, and at the right a clipped hedge and a low white wall separate the track from a lawn.
About this place
Futoški park covers about eight hectares on Futoška street and was cut in the first decade of the twentieth century out of the old woodland that ran west from Novi Sad towards Futog. It was made as a setting for the Iodine Spa rather than as an ordinary public garden, and the surviving 1907 plan of the Hungarian landscape architect Ármin Petz the Younger can still be read in the layout. Several geothermal springs rise in the ground here, and seven wells have been sunk in and around the park, all to much the same depth and all yielding water of the same composition. The planting mixes native lowland oak, white poplar and elm with imported liquidambar, sophora, black walnut and magnolia; the old plane in front of the spa building and two tulip trees, the oldest recorded in any public green space in the city, are the notable specimens. The spa buildings and their immediate surroundings were listed in 1986 as a cultural monument of great importance, so that park and spa are protected together.
- Date
- 1911–1958
- Coordinates
- 45.25080, 19.82748
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 813 × 571 px
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