1960sLiberty Square
A Woman and Child Feeding Pigeons on Liberty Square, Small Cars at the Kerb
A woman in a skirt suit holds a small child in white by the hand while pigeons scatter and settle across the paving around them. Boxy saloons are parked in a row along the kerb behind her, a small rear-engined car stands nearer the middle of the square, and a man strides past with more birds lifting around him. The block across the square opens its ground floor as an arcade of round-arched shopfronts with a lettered fascia over the corner, and a plainer post-war building shows through the gap where a street leaves the square.
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.
- Date
- 1960s
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 750 × 500 px
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