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”.
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Petrovaradin Fortress, the symbol of the town which has long been known as the Gibraltar of the Danube, is perched on the right bank of the Danube River overlooking Novi Sad. It was built between 1692 and 1780 based on the system of fortification construction developed by Sébastian Le Pestre de Vauban’s, later known as…
The Raid Victims Memorial was built in remembrance of the ’January Raid’ carried out from January 21st to January 23rd 1942 in Novi Sad. During these three days Hungarian fascists executed over a thousand people – Serbs, Jews and Gypsies. In 1971 at this place by the Danube river a 4 m tall bronze monument…
The battle near Petrovaradin was fought on August, 5th in 1716., between Austrian and Turk armies. The Turks were defeated and forced to go back, and Damad Ali-paša himself was deadly wounded. The Austrian army captured a lot of arms and war equipment. Eugen Savoy, well-known army-commander and even more famous diplomat, French by origin,…
The establishment of the museum of one of the most prominent poets of Serbian romanticism Jovan Jovanović Zmaj (1833-1904) is closely connected to establishment and activities of the “Zmaj”, formed in 1904. The house in Sremska Kamenica, in which the poet spent his last days of life, was adapted and open for visits in 1933.…
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