Taken from higher than the 72 metre tower of the Name of Mary church, whose spire and cross are seen from above. Tram rails curve across the open paving and round the corner of the banded modernist block of the Tanurdžić Palace of 1933; the Novi Sad tram was lifted in 1958, so the rails have little life left in them. The bronze Miletić figure throws a long shadow, and beyond the old tiled roofs new flat-roofed blocks stand along the Danube.
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
- 1956
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain (historical photograph)
- Size
- 1356 × 1942 px
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