Bus-shelter mosaic, Gura Galbenei

A roadside bus shelter with a mosaic in Gura Galbenei, a commune seat in the Cimișlia district, on the Cogâlnic river between Bozieni (to the north) and Hârtop (to the south). The name — „the mouth of the Galbena” — marks where the Galbena valley opens toward the Cogâlnic; the settlement is attested from the 17th century and was once the seat of the Hotărniceni ocol. As everywhere in rural Bessarabia, the bus stop was the village's gateway to the wider world, and many were clad in colourful mosaics in the 1960s–80s by local craftspeople. The shelter's work is anonymous, though: neither the artist, the year, nor the panel's subject is on record, and the only mosaic photographs from the village actually document a different work — the two panels on the facade of the Palace of Culture — not this bus stop. It is catalogued in the „Mosaics of Moldova” (Buretz) inventory, but no openly-licensed photograph of the shelter's mosaic exists, so its imagery cannot be described from a verified source.

Tracks

Southern Moldova, Roadside Mosaics

Neighborhood

Gura Galbenei, r. Cimișlia