Bus-shelter mosaic, Hirova
A roadside bus shelter with a mosaic in Hirova, a village in the Călărași district, in the Codru forest belt of central Moldova. The work belongs to Moldova's tradition of rural mosaic bus stops: in the 1960s–80s many stops along the republic's roads were clad in smalt and ceramic, the bus stop being the village's „gateway to the wider world” — an everyday monumental art of which Moldova keeps one of the densest surviving concentrations. The panel here is vivid and figurative: a Moldovan couple in folk costume — a man in an embroidered shirt and sash, a woman in a white dress — against grapes, a red spiral-sun and floral „tree-of-life” columns; another wall adds a scene of plenty with an apple-laden tree. The artist and year are unrecorded. When photographed (September 2024) the shelter was mid-restoration, its floor torn up and hazard tape strung across the entrance.
- Neighborhood
- Hirova, r. Călărași
- Building
- Stație de autobuz, Hirova, r. Călărași