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
Experience the adventure on River Danube in organization of kayak- canoe rafting club “Danube’s rafting”. Try recreational rowing of canoe or kayak. There is organized renting of canoe with the equipment, elementary course of rowing and introducing of Danube. The offer contains: raft cruising with catamaran from Novi Sad. Returning is down– water in recreational…
Mountaineering club “Železničar” Novi Sad was founded on the 18 April 1951. The club is formed for the purpose of saving the environment and recreation of its members. The club now has about 600 members. Most of the members are active on a regular weekly recreatonally hike in action “Pešačimo u prirodi” (Pedestrians in nature).…
The whole system of marshes and connected backwaters of this famous fishing district is a real pleasure for sport fishermen. You can almost always reckon on a good catch. The most famous destinations are Arkanj, Šlajz, Brankovac and Tikvara. License: special, Vojvodinašume
National park “Fruška Gora” is declared in 1960. on a territory of Srem, on a complete surface of 25.525 ha and covers the mountain of the same name and her slopes ( with the vegetation, settlements, communications, water and other on that surface). This hunting ground is owned by National park of “Fruška Gora” which…
Hunting ground is situated on a territory of Novi Sad (without fields which belong to hunting grounds of “ Podunavlje” and “Gornji Srem”). The complete surface of this area is 43.473 ha and hunting surfaces are on 42.186 ha. Animals you can hunt: roe, rabbit , pheasant, wild duck, field partridge, quails, turtle dove, pigeon…
