Bus-shelter mosaic, Sărata-Galbenă
A roadside bus shelter with a mosaic in Sărata-Galbenă, the seat of a large commune (with the villages of Brătianovca, Cărpineanca, Coroliovca and Valea Florii) in the Hîncești district. The village is documented from 1 May 1406, in a charter of Alexandru cel Bun, and lies on the Sărata river, about 65 km from Chișinău and 16 km from Hîncești; a lake divides the village in two. The shelter belongs to the wave of mosaic-clad bus stops built along Moldova's roads in the 1960s–1980s, 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. The only openly-licensed images tied to the village are photographs from Ion Chibzii's archive (1970s–80s) — the lake, the „Luminița” house of culture, the local folk ensemble — none of which shows the bus stop, so the panel cannot be described from images.
- Neighborhood
- Sărata-Galbenă, r. Hîncești