central european style
There was once a true paradise for the European traveller,
a nation where many various people cohabited with
four official languages and a myriad of other languages, a nation with a varied
landscape therefore that it comprised in it alpine villages
and centuries-old mosques. This country was called Yugoslavia.
And to the inside of this wonder there was another wonder, the Vojvodina, a
multiethnic region for excellence, where the insigna of the
public offices were written in 6 various languages.
One small Yugoslavia to the inside of the great Yugoslavia. But now all this
does not exist anymore or exists only in part.
I want to show you some photos of Novi Sad that I shot long
ago in 1989, hoping that a day this city, after
the allied bombs, will be again that fascinating and friendly city that
I remember with so much affection.
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The town hall built in
central european style |
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The catholic Cathedral
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A corner of the historical center |
| The great fortress
"Tvrdjava" that dominates the Danube |
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The clock tower of the "Tvrdjava" |
| The Varadin bridge
(once called Marshall Tito) at sunset. This bridge that joined Novi Sad to Petrovaradin and the Tvrdjava today has been destroyed by the air raids |
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My friends greet me while I am leaving the railway station of Novi Sad on January 1989 |
This is a photo of my friends Jelica Petrovic, Aleksandar
and Vladimir Bojovic and Stasa Lorbek. Unfortunately years of
wars in the former Yugoslavia have made me lose the contacts
with them, but thanks to internet and to the many viewers of this page I could reach them again and found out they are all safe.