An elevated view across the suburban bus terminal on a winter afternoon, snow lying on the roofs and along the verges and the yard churned to slush. Single deck coaches stand nose in under two long platform canopies with more drawn up in ranks along the roadway, a kiosk sits at the head of the platforms and a few passengers cross the open ground between them. Behind the terminal rise the apse and bell tower of the Cathedral Church of Saint George, and the long classical front to the right is the Gymnasium in Zlatne grede. The terminal served the suburban routes out of Novi Sad and stood on the Fish Market square, Riblja pijaca, on what is now Trg Republike.
About this place
The fish market keeps its own small square on Trg republike, at the point where the old centre of Novi Sad runs into Podbara, with Miloša Bajića and Žarka Vasiljevića streets on its other sides. The ground here was low and wet before the town spread over it: an account of the bishop's palace describes it facing a stagnant arm of the Danube in the direction of the present fish market, and complains of the stench and the noise of frogs. The photograph in this archive was taken in 1959, with the square dug up and new blocks of flats standing behind it, during the rebuilding that gave this edge of the centre its present form.
- Date
- 1965–1975
- Coordinates
- 45.25746, 19.85108
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1080 × 786 px
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