Zrenjanin municipality is situated in the centre of Banat. The city of Zrenjanin is the administrative, political, economic, educational, cultural, and health care centre of the middle Banat and represents the headquarter of middle Banat territory. It covers the surface of 1.326 kilometres square and it is the biggest municipality in Vojvodina when the territory is concerned, and second in the Republic of Serbia. The city itself is placed on the 83m altitude.
It is situated 75 km in the north of Belgrade and 45 km on the east of Novi Sad. Important roads that connect Serbia with Romania and Hungary go through it. That roads are Belgrade – Zrenjanin – Novi Knjaževac – Đula – Szeged, Belgrade – Zrenjanin – Srpska Crnja – Temišvar and Belgrade – Zrenjanin – Novi Bečej – Kikinda – Nakovo – Arad.
The territory of the Zrenjanin community is very rich in rivers. In a diameter of about 30 km, there are a several rivers flow, Tamiš, Tisa, Karaš, Danube, and channel net Danube – Tisa – Danube, and the city itself lies on the river Begej.
It belongs to the temperate-continental climate zone with an annual rainfall of 617 mm.
The community consists of the city Zrenjani and 21 settlements: Aradac, Banatski Despotovac, Belo Blato, Botoš, Elemir, Ečka, Jankov Most, Klek, Knićanin, Lazarevo, Lukino Selo, Lukićevo, Melenci, Mihajlovo, Orlovat, Perlez, Stajićevo, Taraš, Tomaševac, Farkaždin, Čenta. There are 25 different nations and nationalities and the largest number are Serbs, Hungarians, Romanians, and Slovaks. The total number of inhabitants in the municipality is 122.714.
The city of Zrenjanin is the administrative, political, economic, educational, cultural and health centre of Central Banat and is the seat of the Central Banat District. Of the economic branches, agriculture is the most developed, and the food industry is also developed, followed by the textile, metal and chemical industries.
TOURISM ORGANISATION OF ZRENJANIN CITY
Address: Koče Kolarova 68, Zrenjanin
Phone: +381 (0)23 523 160, fax: +381 (0)23 523 161
E-mail: office@visitzrenjanin.com
Web: www.visitzrenjanin.com
CITY NATIONAL LIBRARY “ŽARKO ZRENJANIN” – Zrenjanin
The City National Library “Žarko Zrenjanin” is situated in the center of the city, in the building which was built in 1882. However it was build for another purpose, it was made in the place where were put more than 150 books on a few sections (children, borrowing, scientific, homeland, club books, publishing works, bookbinding).…
MAIN STREET – Zrenjanin
It is a separate entity of the preserved urban core and a protected monument, and also the most important residential, commercial and business part of the city. Since 1716 and the departure of the Turks, it has been the central city street. Until 1879 it was called the Great Bridge Street, then until 1919 Hunyadi…
CITY HALL – Zrenjanin
Baroque Town Hall was built in 1820 according to the project of an architect Josip Fiser. Later on, in 1887, a sidelong wing was built in neo-baroque style and the complete reconstruction of the building was performed by the architects Djula Partos and Eden Lehner. This building has always been the seat of municipal administration.…
NATIONAL THEATRE “TOŠA JOVANOVIĆ” – Zrenjanin
Drama scene The first script about theatre art in Serbia is connected to Bečkerek, in the XVIII century, and for the name of the teacher Jelisejić and his amateur pupil’s groups. The Grain Square was altered in 1839. into the theatre. According to the legend, the theatre appeared as a great love of one noble…
RESTAURANT “MALI TROFEJ” – Zrenjanin
Restaurant “Mali trofej“ (Small Trophy) prepares game dishes, fish and grilled meat dishes. There is a special offer – take-away barbecue specialties. The restaurant is owned by Ljubisa Ostojin.