1962Liberty Square
Fifty one years of city transport, marked on the square
A long painted banner is strung on poles across the main square, lettered in large capitals. Beneath it three vehicles stand in line for display. At the left a four wheel tram motor car with its trolley pole raised, its dash carrying a number and its windows papered with printed notices. Beside it a double deck bus, its upper and lower windows likewise papered. Beyond that a single deck bus, and past it a van and a lorry carrying an open display stand. Flags on tall staffs stand at the left of the frame and bunting hangs from the buildings behind. Tubs and stands of cut flowers are set on the cobbles at the front of the line. A crowd moves about the vehicles, men in overcoats and hats, women in headscarves and coats, and an elderly woman in the left foreground looks toward the camera. Ornate nineteenth century frontages close the square behind.
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.
On the card
51 GODIŠNJICA GRADSKOG SAOBRAĆAJA
51st anniversary of city transport
- Date
- 1962
- Coordinates
- 45.25512, 19.84502
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- unknown
- Size
- 1271 × 818 px
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