Lazar Kostic (1841-1910) was a Serbian writer, poet, journalist, dramatist and an aesthetic philosopher. He finished writing his best poem and one of the most exquisite poems of Serbian literature, Santa Maria della Salute, in Sombor, prior to his death. The statue of Laza Kostic was revealed in 2011 in front of the house in which he lived after his marriage to Julijana Palanacki, a girl from Sombor. The statue was modelled by Igor Seter, a sculptor from Sombor, who considered it most appropriate that Laza should return to Sombor looking the way his great friend, doctor Radivoj Simonovic described him: with ruffled hair and moustache after a long walk, sitting on the bench holding an open book. The bench welcomes tourists, admirers to his verse, tired walkers, to sit right there, right next to him. Laza Kostic left an unforgettable trace in Sombor. His eternal home is at the orthodox cemetery in Sombor.