Tourist sites

Churches

ZUPNA MARIJINA CRKVA (catholic cathedral), Trg Slobode. Its highest point has been visible from all the town and its gentle outlook are at once remarkable. Constructed in a typical neo-gothic style in 1895 it had received a monastery before. A facade of the ennobled lines and of the well matching yellow-white colours. Notice the slate roof of thousand colours more similar to the castles of Bourgogne than to the central European buildings. Take care. The visit should be paid to the demand of the tourist office.

SABORNA CRKVA (the orthodox cathedral), Svetozara Markovica 2. At the beginning of Pasiceva street and remarkable at the entrance to the Serbian quarter-lyceum, the Serbian eparchy and the Serbian cultural institutions. This cathedral had been erected in the place of an old orthodox church disappeared in the troubles of 1848. Its restoration had taken more than 30 years and had employed many architects, among others Mikhail Harminc from Budapest. The elegant belfry with four clocks on all four sides had been erected 1905.. in the inside you would discover an impressive iconostasis with not less than 33 icons and a few boards with the historical scenes. Two great icons in the altar have been considered the best works by the academician Paja Jovanovic. This Serbian cathedral has been full with people all day long, and don’t get surprised to hear a liturgical chanting or the collective prayers because with the orthodox there is no mass in a proper sense.

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH SVETI NIKOLA, Trg Sveti Nikola. In the continuance of Pasiceva street, just next to the “Serbian Mayoralty”, there is the most ancient orthodox church in the town. It had been constructed in 1730 by the family of Bogdanovic with a donation, thereafter reconstructed after the destruction of 1848 by Maria Trandafil. This rich Serb from Novi Sad had been in the XIX century the greatest benefactor to Serbs in the Austrian-Hungarian Empire and many buildings in Novi Sad had been constructed by her. That is why Maria Trandafil had been buried in the church. In 1913 a son of Albert Einstein had been baptised in the church of Sveti Nikola. The Einstein’s wife Mileva, already a worldwide known physicist and mathematician came from a Serbian family of the region of Novi Sad.
This little church, peacefully installed in a place at the outskirts of the town has presented an interest for many reasons. You would d see its roof in the shape of an oriental bulge as well as its brilliant golden Greek cross proudly erected. In the inside is the iconostasis, more discrete than that in the Saborna Crkva, but it has been formed by various icons and pictures. Finally, the painter Nikola Dimic had been able to create the wall frescos in an entirely Byzantine style.

SYNAGOGUE, Jevrejska 33. Like for the Serbs, the synagogue has been placed next to the cultural monuments of the same community: the school, the ballet and the library. The ensemble of these buildings makes a part of a complex built in 1809 by the architect Lipot Baumhorn, and this is the fifth most ancient synagogue in this place. It has been overhead by three domes, what reminded to the smaller cell of Szeged in Hungary. You may read above the main entrance and in the golden letters: “here is the house of all nations”. This benevolent epitaph explained perhaps the peacefulness and the absence of any anti-Semitic violence between 1940 and 1943, but that did not prevent the synagogue to be transformed into a prison centre for the Jews in 1944 they used to send them from there to Jasenovac. The majority of Jews of Novi Sad had been killed there by ustashi, and 2955 the fifth and the last group of Jews went away to Israel. Today the synagogue has been the municipal property and serves the concerts to be held in it.

Museums

THE MUSEUM OF VOJVODINA, Dunavska 35, Phone: 420 566. E-mail: museum@eunet.yu. Open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays except Monday, and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. week-end. Entrance 60 Dinars. The Museum of Vojvodina presented the pre-historical and historical remnants about the everyday life of this region, but also a very nice collection of costumes and handicraft objects from all communities of Vojvodina. Installed where there was the Palace of Justice on the former swamps. The building had been repainted 2003. of its 400 000 peaces have not all been displayed, but the permanent collection has been cut into four parts: Archaeology, the Roman period, Middle Ages and Ethnology. There may be noticed the pre-historical site of Gomolava near Ruma with very interesting little sculptures. For the Roman period there was a faithful reconstruction of Sirmuim (Sremska Mitrovica) and the necropolis of Celarevo. But there are especially the peaces from the Serbian history such as the orthodox monastery books of Fruska Gora and the tapestries speaking about the Serbian migrations in the XVII century. Finally, at the end, but one has always been keeping up the best for the end the superb folklore costumes from the beginning lists, the cilims, remember well, from 11 different national communities.

THE MUSEUM OF PETROVARADIN, the fortress summit, Phone: 433 145. E-mail: muzgns@eunet.yu. Open every day fro 9 .a.m. to 5 p.m. Entrance: 70 Dinars. A complete view of the life of Novi Sad in XVIII and XIX centuries. You may find here the bourgeois furniture from XIX century as well as the popular interiors from the beginning of XX century. The nice porcelain collection and a few pictures of the gender should be noticed. The visit has been paid in the building of Mamula having once been military barracks of the fortress of Petrovaradin.

THE MUSEUM OF THE TOWN. A collection of the foreign arts, Dunvska 29, Phone:451 239. Open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. except Monday. In a bourgeois house from XIX century of the purest neo-classical style, a collection of the paintings of Yugoslav and European artists.

Galleries

MATICA SRPSKA, Trg Galerija 1, Phone: 421 455. E-mail: galmats@eunet.yu. Open Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from noon to 8 p.m. Sundays only groups. Entrance: 70 Dinars, groups 30 Dinars. A preview complete enough of the Serbian paintings from XVIII and XIX centuries. This is also the most important if the Serbian painting art. The gallery has displayed only a little part of 7,000 peaces stored in the cellars: pictures, sculptures, drawings. The choice had been made so that only the last two centuries of the XVI-XIX centuries period had been involved. The works represented here the complex process of the Europeisation of the Serbian painting art between the great migrations from 1690 until the formation of Yugoslavia in 1918. The section dedicated to XX century has been a good illustration of the visual art of Vojvodina. The “invited” exhibitions, concerts and conferences.

FOUNDATION PAVLE BELJANSKI, Trg Galerija 2, Phone; 528 185. E-mail: szpb@uenet.yu. Open Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Entrance 70 Dinars. In a very stylist building created 1961 a permanent exhibition of Serbian painters and drawers from the first half of XX century, i.e. from the time of which one still remembers Montparnasse (see under “Discovery”-Pannonia). The fund has been important enough, being had been bequeathed to the State, thus to the people of Serbia. In 1957 the chronological exhibition has been beginning with the first modernists such as Nadezda Petrovic or Milan Lubarda. Then follow several works of better worldwide known artists – Petar Lubarda, Sava Sumanovic and Milan Konjovic and has been ended by the artist of the years 1960 and 1970 – Zora Petrovic or Milenko Serban.
Also the organisation of the classical music concerts or of temporary exhibitions.

FOUNDATION RAJKO MAMUZIC, Vase Stajica 1, Phone: 520 467. Open from Wednesday to Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Entrance 70 Dinars. Founded in 1972 thanks to the fund of th collector Rajko Mamuzic. The gallery involved the painting works of 35 Yugoslav artists of the generation of 1945-1970. Many cultural manifestations and the temporary exhibitions.

SANU PLATONEUM, Nikole Pasica 6, Phone: 420210.

PROMETEJ, Trg Marije Trandafil 11, Phone: 422 245

ZLATNO OKO, Laze Teleckog 3/I, Phone: 529 075.

BEL ART, Mihajla Pupina 17, Phone: 523 227.

MATICA SRPSKA - The most ancient and the most important institution from the Serbian history. Founded 1826 in Pest, Hungary to the protection from the Ottoman violations, the “Serbian Mother” had from the beginning the goal to preserve, and to feed the Serbian cultural heritage in all arts and literature. In 1864 its residence had been established in Novi Sad, in No. 1 Matica Srpska street. The building, the donation by Marija Trandafil belonged to the “pseudo-classical” style from the beginning of XX century. After the II World War Matica Srpska became a scientific, cultural and literary institution at the same time promoting numerous Serbians from the literature and science. This has been a completely autonomous institution living thanks to the support by its academic members living throughout the world, what made them possible to found the museums, galleries and libraries containing 3 million works, and even an edition house. It has been publishing nine reviews in addition to others the “Letopis Matice Srpske” the issuing of which had not been interrupted in spite of the varieties of the history and the political changes. The greatest writers in the Serbian language had been members of this institution, among others Njegos, Jovan Jovanovic Zmaj and Aleksandar Tisma. Don’t hesitate to ask at the entrance cabin to visit the salon of honour and the library on the first floor. You may feel the importance of this institution to the Serbian history.

Monuments

GRADSKA KUCA (Mayoralty), Trg Slobode. It has been dominating the great square of Liberty, an edifice in the pure neo-baroque style . constructed 1895, the Mayoralty has been felt to be a copy of that in Graz, Austria. The building had been organized around four central columns and has got the façade decorated by 16 allegorical statues the coats of arms have been visible in the upper part of the façade. Today the Executive Council of the Assembly i.e. the municipal Executive of the town of Novi Sad have been held here.

VLADICANSKI DVOR (The Orthodox Eparchy), Svetozara Markovica 4. In the street reserved to the walkers, Zmaj Jovina, facing two streets – Pasiceva to the left and Dunavska to the right, there is the orthodox bishop’s residential palace (Vladika) of the region of Backa. Constructed in 1901 this has been an eclectically combination of the “Secession” and “Serbo-Byzantine” styles. You may notice that the façade had been made of red bricks. The three emblems of the eparchy on the facade have to be mentioned. This residence makes a whole with the cathedral just behind the lyceum Zmaj.

THE ARMENIAN MONUMENT. Trg galerije. The tomb of the family of Cenazy from1790 has been a witness of the Armenian presence in Novi Sad. This has been in fact the last witness of the Armenian presence having been here the Armenian cemetery from XIX century. In this quarter there resided an important Armenian community having here their churches and shops.

MENRATOVA PALATA (the palace of Menrat), Kralja Aleksandra. One of the only palaces that have been preserved in the centre of the town. Constructed in 1908 and observing the Hungarian style of “secession” it has been noticeable by its very spacious balconies and its rounded of windows. Being in possession of the merchant family of Menrat, today it has been a residential building.