A card of the new boulevard, looking along it from the shaded verge on the left where saplings have been set in a grass strip. Modern apartment blocks of four and five storeys line the right-hand side, the nearest carrying a sculpted relief high on its rendered corner between two small attic windows. Two horse cabs stand in the roadway further down, one with its hood raised, and the caption is set in Cyrillic and Latin together in the panel at the foot of the card.
About this place
Queen Mary Boulevard was cut through the eastern edge of the old town in 1928 as the approach to the new Prince Tomislav bridge, and it is the street now called Bulevar Mihajla Pupina. Making it meant clearing the ground between the centre and the river: the church of St John Nepomuk, which stood at Brukšanac, the small work that had guarded the pontoon bridge, was pulled down for it. The boulevard took its name from Queen Marija, consort of King Aleksandar I, and lost it after the Second World War, when it was renamed for the physicist Mihajlo Pupin. It opened the line along which the city finally reached the Danube.
On the card
НОВИ САД / Булевар Краљице Марије - NOVI SAD / Bulevar Kraljice Marije
Novi Sad. Queen Mary Boulevard.
- Date
- 1937
- Coordinates
- 45.25370, 19.84297
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 953 × 622 px
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