Bus-shelter mosaic, Sipoteni
A Soviet-era mosaic on the bus shelter at Sipoteni, one of the largest communes of the Călărași district (about 7,500 inhabitants), set in the Codrii of central Moldova some 12 km from the town of Călărași. A village attested since 1585, with an old steam mill and the church of „St Paraschiva” — both state-protected monuments — and a former winery in keeping with the area's wine-growing tradition, Sipoteni 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. 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, but no openly-licensed photograph of the mosaic exists, so its imagery cannot be described from a verified source.
- Neighborhood
- Sipoteni, r. Călărași