The City

Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Backa District. Novi Sad is Serbia's second largest city, after Belgrade. In its most recent official census from 2002, the city had an urban population of 216,583, while its municipal population was 299,294. The city is located on the border of the Backa and Syrmia regions, on the banks of the Danube River and Danube-Tisa-Danube Canal, while facing the northern slopes of Fruska Gora Mountain.

Since it was founded in 1694, Novi Sad became the centre of Serbian culture and earned its nickname Serbian Athens. Today, Novi Sad is a large industrial and financial centre of the Serbian economy; and it is also one of the biggest construction sites in the region.

The name Novi Sad means "New Planting" (noun) in Serbian. As a meeting place of cultures and peoples, Novi Sad came to have many different names in various languages.

With 15 suburban settlements the territory of the City of Novi Sad encompasses the surface of 702,7 km2. The city with Petrovaradin and Sremska Kamenica occupies the space of 129,4 km2 while construction terrain occupies 106,2 km2.

To See

• The fortress of Petrovaradin on the right bank of the DanubeThe
• The Church of the great martyr St. George, Serb Orthodox church
• The Church of Virgin's name, Catholic church
• Dvorac Dundjerski an old castle, wonderfully preserved
• The Novi Sad Synagogue, a beautiful Synagogue

To Visit : Museums

• Foreign art collection
• Vojvodina Museum

Events

• EXIT festival - This festival, founded in 2000 an onset to the democratic revolution in the country, attracts more and more visitors every year. It has a wider variety of music genres such as Rock, Dance, Reggae, Hip-Hop, Folk, and Techno. Many world famous bands played on the festival (Slayer, Moloko, Iggy Pop, Snoop Dogg, Wu-Tang-Clan, Public Enemy and many DJs from around Europe and Asia) and in the year 2004 it was listed as the biggest cultural event of South-Central/Eastern Europe.
• A stroll around the city's imposing boulevards and along the Danube river
• If the weather is nice, sit down at one of the cafés around Spens and enjoy
• The Železnicar Association of mountaineers and skiers organizes a hiking trip every Sunday on Fruska Mountain and in the Novi Sad vicinity.
• Must visit in summer - "STRAND" - means beach, the most beautiful sand beach on the Danube