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
Phone: +381 (0)21 66 18 383, +381 (0)21 66 18 390
E-mail: tons@turizamns.rs
Web: www.novisad.travel
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/novisadcity/
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 Art clinic, utopist project of the group of citizens connected to the multimedia centre Led Art, started the work at the end of 2002. in Novi Sad, as the answer to the “ Sick society we live in”, with the belief that the art can cure and change the world. The project “Art Clinic”…
Gallery of icons and bookstore of the Serbian Orthodox Church Opening hours: Monday to Friday 8am-8pm, Saturdays 9am-12(noon).
The gallery of tapestry and work shop for the tapestries “Atelier 61” were found in 1961. on the initiative of Novi Sad’s painter Boško Petrović (1922-1982). In the attractive exhibition space of Leopold’s bastion from the beginning of XVIII century, on the plateau of Petrovaradin fortress to the Danube, you can see the tapestries made…
The gallery of fine art artists in Vojvodina is the chamber gallery where are held independent and group exhibitions, where you can put about 20 works of middle size. The gallery is situated in the very center of Novi Sad and is very visited.
Opennig hours: 9 am – 8 pm Saturday: 9 am – 3 pm