Novi Sad

Traditionally hospitable and spiritually ambitious builders of Novi Sad have shaped the capital of Vojvodina on the foundations of cultural heritage and economic development and made it a city whose most attractive motifs are easily recognizable.
  The first among the most famous is the Petrovaradin Fortress, the never conquered Gibraltar on the Danube, an exciting cultural and historic site with the most beautiful view of the city. Together with a museum, art galleries and studios it represents a single tourist site. Its monumentality is emphasized and shaped by the longest artery of this part of Europe – -the river Danube, whose peaceful and wide course quietly tells its story engraved in the Fortress and supported by historical facts. The famous clock tower measures from afar the journey of many centuries, and shows all the travellers on the river that they have reached our city. Hospitable to everyone and temperamental only when necessary, the Danube presents us with the most beautiful beaches in its entire course, spacious sandbanks and numerous river islands and branches precisely in Novi Sad.

   The heart of Novi Sad is in the region of Backa. This is where the main square, trg Slobode (Freedom Square) is with its cultural and historic monuments and the oldest buildings in town. From the central square five streets lead into the pedestrians' area, and the oldest ones among them are Zmaj Jovina and Dunavska street. The colours of all the nations in Novi Sad are best represented by their church towers. The bells of Orthodox temples – Church of St. George, Almaska church, Uspenska church, Nikolajevska church, Roman Catholic churches – Zupna crkva Imena Marijinog (Church of Holy Mary), Church of St. Rok, Church of St. Elisabeth, and protestant churches, together with the Jewish sinagogue form the tolerant tone of Novi Sad. The architecture of old facades is revived by the many shops, cafes, boutiques and narrow passages in which you can feel the collision of various cultures and times.

   Novi Sad is famous for its various social events. Novi Sad Fair, the oldest institution of this kind in our country, established in 1923., hosts over fifteen different fairs a year, while cultural, ecological, musical, sports, children's, film, theater, video and multimedia events happen all the year round.
   The area of Novi Sad represents one of the most diverse tourist sites in the Danube region, protected and enriched by the beauty of the -Fruska gora mountain, a national park of approximately 25.000 ha (61.775 acres), with 17 Serbian monasteries, vast woods, rare plant and animal species, nature reserves, numerous lakes and mountain paths.

Novi Sad is the second largest city in Serbia and Montenegro, and a multiethnic environment in which national communities are equally present in the city's political, public and cultural life. It is also the economic, cultural, university, health, political, and administrative centre of the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina.
Novi Sad – the name of a city you will always remember and always come back to.

Geographis location
Novi Sad is a town on the river Danube, located in the middle of the Vojvodinian part of Panonian plain and is the second largest city in Serbia. It is located between the 19th and 20th degree of the eastern longitude and the 45th and 46th degree of the northern latitude, on 72 to 80 m of altitude.

Novi Sad is located on the international road, which connects Budapest and Vienna, Thessalonica, Athens, Bucharest and Istanbul… The highway E-72 (Budapest-Belgrade-Nis) passes alongside Novi Sad while the highway E-70 (Zagreb-Belgrade) is in the close vicinity. The average distance between Novi Sad and the neighbouring countries (Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Hercegovina) is 80 km while the nearest airport in Belgrade is 70 km away. The advantage of this town lies in its geo-strategic location.

Novi Sad is on the water road Rain-Main-Danube that connects nine countries and six capitals of Europe, and which is 588 km long in our country.
Novi Sad is also famous for its attractive picnic grounds in the surroundings of the town, around the banks of the river or on Fruska Gora.