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
PLAVI SALAŠ – Čenej
Blue grange, Čenej operates through a club of grange fans, the Blue grange association …It is located in a country oasis of Ceneian fields in an oasis of Vojvodina plains, 15km away from Novi Sad. In a document from 1237 we found, according to Melhior Erduheliij, the first certain record of Čenej. That year, the…
FARM 325 “PAJIN SALAŠ” – Čenej
Salaš (a farming household typical for the territory of Vojvodina) 325 is a unique and authentic object interwoven with ethical characteristics of the region of Vojvodina, but at the same time enriched by the modern concept of catering. It singles out from the other objects of similar type by its amazing menu, which occurred as…
MITIN SALAŠ – Čenej
The salaš (a farming household typical for the territory of Vojvodina) of Dimitrije Miodragović is situated 10 kilometres away from Novi Sad, in Čenej, in the shade of a pear Barliman tree… Salaš is the same as a couple of hundred years ago, although it was restored in 1931, and consists of the main house,…
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“KIBITZFENSTER” – Novi Sad
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HOSTEL “KUTAK” – Novi Sad
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