Bus-shelter mosaic, Gotești

A roadside bus shelter with a mosaic in Gotești, a commune seat in the Cantemir district of southern Moldova. The village is documented from 1546 under the name „Hotceanii” (in a charter of Petru Rareș) and lies in the valley of the Larga river, in the Prut basin. The shelter belongs to the wave of mosaic-clad bus stops built along Moldova's roads in the 1960s–1980s — a tradition so widespread that the mosaic, more than any other feature, defines the Soviet roadside shelter here, each village seeking to dress up the spot that was its everyday link to the wider world. The work is anonymous: neither the artist, the year, nor the panel's subject is on record. It is catalogued in the „Mosaics of Moldova” (Buretz) inventory, photographed there by Nadejda Argint, but no openly-licensed photograph of the mosaic exists, so its imagery cannot be described from a verified source.

Tracks

Southern Moldova, Roadside Mosaics

Neighborhood

Gotești, r. Cantemir