Bus-shelter mosaic, Seliște
A Soviet-era mosaic on the bus shelter at Seliște, the seat of a small commune in the Nisporeni district (about 1,500 inhabitants), in the Codrii of west-central Moldova. The village is documented as far back as 25 April 1420, as „seliștea lui Tigomir”, in a charter of Alexandru cel Bun; a kilometre from the village lies the „Seliște Tectonic Fracture”, a protected natural area (a geological and palaeontological monument). The mosaic shelter belongs to the wave of decorated bus stops built along Moldova's roads in the 1960s–1980s — a tradition so widespread that mosaics, more than any other feature, define 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 Liuba Cerchez, but no openly-licensed photograph of the mosaic exists, so its imagery cannot be described from a verified source.
- Neighborhood
- Seliște, r. Nisporeni