Bus-shelter mosaic, Alexandru cel Bun

A Soviet-era mosaic on the roadside bus shelter that marks the entrance to Alexandru cel Bun — a village founded in 1924, on the M2 Chișinău–Soroca national road about 7 km from Soroca. The open concrete shelter doubles as a village gateway: openwork metal lettering spelling „ALEXANDRU CEL-BUN” and a small shield in the national colours crown the structure, while its pillars and back wall are clad in smalt mosaic in warm, earthy tones — a sun-like rosette, stylized fish- and leaf-forms, and a larger figurative panel, now weathered. Like almost all of Moldova's decorated roadside shelters it was made anonymously by local craftsmen; neither the artist nor the year is recorded. It is catalogued in the „Mosaics of Moldova” (Buretz) inventory and is among the stations included in Ștefan Susai's photographic album „Stații auto cu mozaic din Republica Moldova” (Cartier, 2026).

Tracks

Northern Moldova, Roadside Mosaics

Neighborhood

Alexandru cel Bun, r. Soroca

Photos: Visem (CC BY 4.0) · Gikü (talk) (CC0)