Bus-stop mosaic, Bălțata
A mosaic bus shelter in the village of Bălțata, the seat of its commune in the Criuleni district of central Moldova. The roadside stop is clad in coloured smalt, in the usual manner of Soviet-era village stops. The work belongs to the genre of rural mosaic bus stops that spread across the Moldovan SSR in the 1960s–80s, when bus stops became small exercises in monumental art — the village's gateway to the road; Moldova preserves one of the densest networks of such works. Bălțata, a village of nearly 1,190 people, sits on low ground (about 65 m elevation) east of Chișinău. The panel's author, year and exact subject are undocumented — the only openly-licensed photograph is an overall view of the shelter.
- Neighborhood
- Bălțata, Criuleni district
- Building
- Stația de autobuz, Bălțata, r. Criuleni