As in everybody’s case, Novi Sad, as our hometown, is the most beautiful city to us.
On the map, made by Gerhard Mercator in the 16th century, in the place of today’s Novi Sad, there was a settlement called Bistriz. In its journal about traveling down the Danube river, Hans Christian Andersen mentions Novi Sad as the “water city”.
Novi Sad “sprouted” on the fertile ground, along the bridgehead across the fortress, some three hundred years ago. On 1st February 1748, the Austro-Hungarian Empress Maria Theresa awarded Novi Sad with the status of a royal town. It was then that Novi Sad was called by its today’s name. In that time, no man from the Fruška Gora could marry if he hadn’t planted a new seedling (Serb. seedling=sad, new=novi).
The city area covers some 130 square kilometers and has 235.000 inhabitants. The first ferry (raft), which connected Novi Sad and Petrovaradin, was put in the place in 1213 and the last one in 1999. Novi Sad is quite sensitive to its bridges. 134 pontoon bridges have been constructed from the 1720s until the 1920s. The history of these bridges is another story, a story so special that sometimes Novi Sad was called “the town where the river runs above the bridges”.
TOURISM ORGANISATION OF THE CITY OF NOVI SAD
Address: Trg Slobode 3 (Apolo center), Novi Sad
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TOURIST INFO CENTER “JEVREJSKA”
Jevrejska 10
Mon – Fri 7:30 – 17:00
Saturday 09:00 – 14:00
+381(0)21 66 17 343
TOURIST INFO CENTER “BULEVAR”
Bul. Mihajla Pupina 9
Mon – Fri 7:30 – 17:00
+381(0)21 421 811
THE SLOVAK EVANGELISTIC CHURCH – Novi Sad
It was built in 1886. in baroque- classical style with the help of Duke Adolf Rajzer. The church kept its first look however it was partly damaged during the Second World War. The organs and the belfry of the church are considered to be of the great cultural and historical value.
ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH OF THE NAME OF MARY (“CATHEDRAL”) – Novi Sad
Although famous as a cathedral, it is not a cathedral since the headquarters of the episcopate for Bačka is in Subotica. On the place where the parish church from 1742 was brought down in 1891, the present church in neo-gothic style was built. It was being built from 1893 to 1895, according to the project…
THE REFORMATIVE CHRISTIAN CHURCH – Novi Sad
At the corner of Šafarikova and Pavla Pap streets there is Reformation church. That strict and simple building, with neo-gothic tower where was put the symbolic Bethlehem’s star, almost 150 years is the praying home of religious community in Novi Sad which exists for three centuries. Today’s church was found on the place of former…
THE CHURCH OF ST. CYRIL AND METHODIUS – Novi Sad
The church is situated in the part of Novi Sad called Telep.
THE GREEK CATHOLIC CHURCH – Novi Sad
The Ruthenian (Rusyn) Greek-catholic church was dedicated to St. Apostles Petar and Pavle. There is also the rectors home. The base stone was put in 1820., and the church was finished in 1834. or 1837.- the exact year is unknown because all the important documents disappeared in the battle in 1848.
THE ASSUMPTION CHURCH (USPENSKA CRKVA) – Novi Sad
There are testimonies that The Church of Assumption of Holy Mother of God existed even in 1731. The building from that time was made out of wicker charge. The construction of the new church, the one which stands there today, started in 1765. Special beauty of this temple is found in its iconostasis and its…
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (SABORNA CRKVA) – Novi Sad
The Cathedral church of Novi Sad is dedicated to the Holy Great Martyr George. It was built in baroque style in 1734, during the time of the empress Maria Theresia, the Patriarch Arsenije IV Jovanović and the Archpriest Visarion Pavlovic. It was burnt down during the bombing in 1849. It was rebuilt in 1860-80, and…
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC RECTORY CHURCH OF ST. ROCK – Petrovaradin
The Church of St. Rock is situated in the part of Petrovaradin called Novi Majur. It was built in 1808. Whole administration about the early history of this church was burnt in the Hungarian revolution in 1849., during the fight between the Hungarian revolutionary and Serbian and Croatian groups which were under Josip Jelačić command.…