Excursion from Belgrade to Novi Sad. Serbia. City of Novi Sad

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (English Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT ) - university and research center located in Cambridge(PC. Massachusetts , USA). Sometimes also referred to as Massachusetts Institute of Technology And MIT.

MIT is a mecca of computer technology, a world leader in science and technology, an innovator in the fields robotics And artificial intelligence. The institute is also renowned in many other fields including management , economy , linguistics , political science And philosophy.

Among the most famous departments of MIT are the Lincoln Laboratory, the Laboratory of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, and the School of Management. 72 members of the MIT community are honorees Nobel Prize, this is a record figure.

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Early years

In 1861, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts approved a charter by William Burton Rogers establishing the "Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Natural History Society of Boston." William Burton Rogers wanted to create a new form of higher education that would meet the challenges of rapidly developing science in the middle 19th century, to which classical education was pathologically unable to provide an adequate answer. After the charter was adopted, Rogers began to seek funds, develop the curriculum, and select a suitable location for the institute. The Rogers Plan, as it is now known, was based on three principles: the educational value of useful knowledge, the need for learning through action, and the integration of professional and human sciences. MIT pioneered the use of instructions for laboratory work. His philosophy is “learning is not about manipulations and instantaneous details of science that can only be applied in practice, but about knowledge and understanding of all the basic scientific principles with their explanations.” Because it started a few months later civil war the first classes at MIT took place only in 1865 in a rented commercial building in the suburbs Boston.

Construction of MIT's first building in the Back Bay was completed in 1866 and was known as "Boston Tech" until the campus grew across the Charles River to Cambridge in 1916. Over the years, scientific and engineering training began to move away from Rogers' ideal and concentrated more on practical rather than theoretical subjects. Moreover, the institute faced financial problems and problems in recruiting faculty. MIT was so specialized that it was detrimental to other teaching. The “school up the river” sought a merger from the MIT administration; The original plan was canceled in 1900 due to protests from graduates of the institute. In 1914, the merger of MIT and Harvard's Department of Applied Science was officially announced, and was to begin "when the institution occupied its new luxurious buildings in Cambridge." However, in 1917, the merger with Harvard was canceled due to a state court decision.

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The consolidation efforts described above occurred in parallel with MIT's outgrowth of the lecture and laboratory facilities of its building in Boston. After taking office in 1909, President Richard Maclaurin sought ways to expand the institute's territory. An anonymous donor—George Eastman, as it later turned out—gave funds to purchase miles of industrial land along the Cambridge side of the Charles River. By 1916, MIT finally moved into new stately buildings, designed in the neoclassical style, and remains there to this day. The new campus meant some changes to the stagnant curriculum; President Carl Taylor Compton and Vice President Vannivar Bush overhauled the program in 1930, increasing the importance of "real" sciences such as physics or chemistry and reducing time spent in workshops or drawing. Despite the difficulties over the years Great Depression, the reforms have strengthened confidence in the institute's ability to maintain its leadership in science and engineering. As luck would have it, they also strengthened MIT's academic reputation on the eve of Second World War, attracting scientists and researchers who later made major contributions to the Radiation Laboratory, the Instrumentation Laboratory, and other military research programs.

MIT changed significantly as it became involved in military research during World War II. Bush - vice president of the institute, provost - became head of the National Defense Research Committee, which later became the Department scientific research and developments responsible for Manhattan project. Government-supported research provided a fantastic increase in the institute's research staff and physics laboratories, shifting the focus from undergraduate to graduate students. During cold war and the Space Race of the 1950s and 1960s, there was growing concern about the technological gap between the US and the USSR. MIT's participation in military-industrial complex country has become a source of pride on campus. However, in the late 60s and early 70s, students and faculty activists actively protesting against this research demanded that the administration of the institute allocate such laboratories into what became the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and the Lincoln Laboratory. The scale of these protests reflects the fact that MIT had more names on President Nixon's "enemies list" than any other organization; among these people are the president of the institute, Jerome Wiesner, and professor Noam Chomsky. Notes opened during Watergate scandal indicated that Nixon cut federal appropriations to MIT due to "Wiesner's anti-defense viewpoint."

Trials and controversies

MIT has been nominally coeducational since 1870, when Ellen Swallow Richards was admitted. Female students, however, remained a small minority (several dozen could be counted) until the opening of the first women's residence hall, McCornick Hall, in 1964. Women made up 43% of all undergraduate and 29% of graduate students enrolled in 2005. Richards became the first female faculty member at MIT to specialize in environmental science. In 1998, MIT became the first major educational institution to acknowledge the existence of a systematic bias in the treatment of women faculty and supported efforts to correct the situation. In 2003, the institute's news published a large number of quotes which indicate that women's status has improved in recent years. In August 2004, Susan Hockfield, a molecular neuroscientist, was approved and became the first female president. She accepted office as the sixteenth president of the institute on December 6, 2004.

MIT was not free from other disagreements. In 1986 David Baltimore, a Nobel laureate, and his colleague Teresa Imanishi-Kari were accused of falsifying research results. This was followed by a congressional investigation that required Baltimore to decline his appointment as president of Rockefeller University, although Imanishi-Kari was cleared of the charge and became president of Coltec. In the mid-1980s, technology historian David F. Noble, who was not renewed, blamed MIT for his firing without cause while he was publishing several books and papers critical of MIT's relationships with corporations and the military. This case became public knowledge, raising the question of the extent to which a scientist has the right to freedom of speech. In 2000, Professor Ted Postol accused the MIT administration of trying to keep quiet about the falsification of research data at Lincoln Laboratory regarding a ballistic missile test; The investigation into this case has not yet been completed.

A large number of members of the MIT community are involved in free software, such as Richard Stallman or Hal Abelson. The MIT student newspaper, MIT Tech, became the first newspaper on the web. In 2001, MIT announced that it planned to make a variety of course materials available as part of its OpenCourseWare project. Also Nicholas Negroponte from the Media Lab and is the head of the Laptop for Every Child initiative.

Positions and reputation

MIT is ranked number 2 among the best two hundred universities in the world according to versions of The Times (2005-2004): No. 1 in technology and engineering and No. 2 in science. The National Research Council, in a 1995 study of U.S. universities, ranked the institute number 1 in reputation and number 4 in citations and awards. Lombardi's University Performance Measurement Program consistently places MIT in the top 5 national universities since 2000 - since the beginning of the program.

MIT's programs in chemistry, computer science, economics, engineering, mathematics and physics were each ranked No. 1 in the 2007 US News and World Report rankings. The School of Engineering has been consistently ranked No. 1 among undergraduate programs since the magazine first conducted its voting in 1988. The School of Management was ranked No. 2 for undergraduates and No. 4 among all MBA programs in the 2006 U.S. News rankings. The Washington Monthly ranked MIT number one in its ranking of colleges for applicants in 2005 and the same in 2006.

Cultural and student life

MIT has never given out honorary degrees; the only way to get a diploma is to earn it. In addition, the institute does not award athletic scholarships, degrees for outside work, or Latin honors upon graduation—the philosophy is that it is a great honor to graduate from MIT. The Institute sometimes issues in rare cases, honorary degrees of professors; Winston Churchill received this degree in 1949, Salman Rushdie in 1993. Staff and students can only be proud of themselves based on mental abilities and achievements, and professors often say that they rank students “alphabetically.” Because of the pressures of science, MIT's culture is often characterized by a love-hate relationship. The school's informal motto is the acronym IHTFP ("I hate this fucking place, " "I have truly found paradise, " "Institute has the finest professors, " etc.)

In 1970, Institute of Relations President Benson R. Schneider published The Hidden Agenda, in which he argued that a host of assumptions and demands controlled the lives of MIT students and stifled their ability to think creatively. Schneider argues that unwritten rules often matter more than the “official program,” and this situation is not unique to MIT.

The values ​​of the institution influence the ethics of hackers. The term "hacker" and much of hacker culture comes from MIT, starting with TMRC and the AI ​​Lab in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The list of local hackers includes Richard Stallman and professors Gerald Jay Sussman and Tom Knight.

At MIT, the term "hack" has several meanings. "Hack" can mean physically exploring an area (often inside the campus, but sometimes outside) that is usually inaccessible - roofs and ventilation shafts. "Hack" also means well-prepared hands-on fun, not just clever technical wrestling.

The desire for anti-authoritarianism sometimes goes overboard in other forms. In 1977, two sophomore students, Susana Gilbert and Roxanne Ritchie, were subjected to disciplinary action for an article published on April 28 in the alternative weekly magazine of MIT. Called "Buyer's Guide - young man from MIT,” this article was a sex study of 36 young men with whom two girls decided to sleep; all 36 were then ranked by their performance. Gilbert and Ritchie set out to revamp the ranking charts and photo books boys used to find girls, but their article led not only to disciplinary action, but also to a petition signed by two hundred protesting students and the conviction of President Jerome B. Wiesner. who published a vehement critique of the article. Another campus gaffe occurred when the traditional registration day movie was replaced with Star Wars in the late 1970s.

The suicide of student Elizabeth Shin in 2000 brought attention to suicide at MIT and led to controversy over whether MIT had an unusually high suicide rate. An article in the Boston Globe claims that students at the institute are much more likely to kill themselves than at twelve other comparable institutions. educational institutions, and quotes a psychiatrist who recognized “contagious suicides.” Whether there really are more suicides at MIT is constantly debated; For example, a licensed clinical social worker wrote an article in the Psychiatric Times noting that “MIT has about the same suicide rate as the national average, given the school's overwhelmingly male staff.” In late 2001, an institute task force recommended improvements to mental health services. Chancellor Philip L. Clay announced that MIT will implement recommendations, including expanding staffing and hours at the mental health center.

MIT offers athletic programs in 41 collegiate-level sports. The institute teams are called “Engineers”, their mascot since 1914 is the beaver, “natural engineer”. (Or sometimes: “The beaver is an engineer among animals—MIT students are animals among engineers.”) Lester Gardner gave the following interpretation: “The beaver not only symbolizes technology, but its habits become our own. The beaver is remarkable for its engineering and mechanical abilities and habit of work. His habits belong to the evening. He does his best work at night." They compete in the NCAA Division III, New England Men's and Women's Athletic Associations, New England Soccer Association, NCAA Division I team and Western College Rowing Association. They competed on several big college teams in 1980, winning national and world championships.

MIT teams have won or placed at national championships in pistol shooting, track and field, cross-country running, fencing, and water polo. MIT also has a campus radio station, an annual mystery hunt during Martin Luther King Jr. weekend, and one of the oldest modern Western dance clubs in the country. The MIT Science Fiction Society has set itself the goal of amassing the world's largest publicly available collection of science fiction books. English language. The MIT Symphony Orchestra records after supporting Daffyd Epstein in the 1970s. It has become a tradition that at each start of the LSC lecture series they watch a thirty-five-millimeter film from the 1970s, before the screening of which there is a collective sigh of “LSC ... sucks”; it can sometimes be heard in other theaters around Boston. They brought many famous speakers and entertainers, including the likes of Gary Larson, Weird Al Yankovic, and former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. Despite the harsh New England winds, severe weather has caused MIT class cancellations only three times: the blizzard of 1978, the blizzard of 2003, and the blizzard of 2005.

Student accommodation

MIT guarantees hostel accommodation for four years for all students. The assigned team leader and commandant perform a dual role, assisting students and checking them for existing medical or psychological problems. Students are allowed to select their residence hall and floor prior to arriving on campus; As a result, different communities emerge among the living. Although the large number of residence halls provides a variety of housing options, the residence halls on and east of Massachusetts Avenue are stereotypically more accommodating of countercultural activities. Older residence halls like Bexley Hall and East Campus have a lot of latitude in decor, which in some cases includes wallpaper, trellises, pitch-black hallways, and wall aquariums.

Many undergrads choose to live in single-sex, single-sex, and mixed-sex communities, most of which are located across the river in MIT's historic Back Bay area. Until 2002, freshmen who received membership in these organizations could move there immediately, leaving the dormitory system. Following the death of Scott Krueger from alcohol in September 1997 as a newly minted member of Phi Gamma Delta, the institute began requiring all freshmen to live in residence halls.

Famous University Alumni

Nobel laureates

• George Akerlof, PhD 1966 - Economics, 2001
• Sidney Altman (Sidney Altman), S.B. 1960 - Chemistry 1989
• Kofi Annan, S.M. 1972 - UN Secretary General, World 2001
• Elias James Corey Jr., S.B. 1948, Ph.D. 1951 - Chemistry 1990
• Richard Feynman, S.B. 1939 - Physics 1965
• Leland H. Hartwell, PhD 1964 - Medicine 2001
• H. Robert Horvitz, SB 1968 - Medicine 2002
• Henry Kendall, S.B. 1948, Ph.D. 1951 - Physics 1990
• Lawrence Klein, PhD 1944 - Economics 1980
• Robert B. Laughlin, PhD 1979 - Physics 1998
• Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D. 1951 - Physics 1969
• Robert Merton, Ph.D. 1970 - Economics 1997
• Robert S. Mulliken, S.B. 1917 - Chemistry 1966
• Robert Mundell, Ph.D. 1956 - Economics 1999
• Charles Pedersen ( Charles Pedersen), S.M. 1927 - Chemistry 1987
• William D. Phillips, Ph.D. 1976 - Chemistry 1997
• Burton Richter, S.B. 1952, Ph.D. 1956 - Physics 1976
• Paul Samuelson- Economics 1970
• John Schrieffer, S.B. 1953 - Physics 1972
• Phillip Sharp Phillip Sharp - Medicine 1993
• William Shockley, Ph.D. 1936 - Physics 1956
• Joseph Stiglitz, PhD 1966 - Economics 2001
• Carl E. Wieman, S.B. 1973 - Physics 2001
• Frank Wilczek, Physics 2004
• Robert B. Woodward, S.B. 1936 - Chemistry 1965

Famous university researchers

• Hal Abelson - computer scientist
• Manson Benedict - nuclear scientist
• Stephen A. Benton - physicist
• Emilio Bizzi - neurologist
• George Boolos - philosopher and mathematician
• Rodney Brooks - robotics and behavior researcher
• Vannevar Bush - electrical engineer, inventor of the hypertext principle
• Noam Chomsky- linguist
• Morris Cohen - materials researcher
• John Deutch - chemist
• Peter Diamond - economist
• Mildred Dresselhaus - physicist, computer scientist and electrical engineer
• Harold E. Edgerton - photographer
• Jerome Friedman - physicist
• Morris Halle - linguist and psychologist
• John Harbison
• Alan Lightman - physicist and writer
• Graham Lauren R. (English Graham Lauren R.) - professor, well-known specialist in the field of history of science of the USSR.
• James Mason Crafts (English James Mason Crafts) - chemist
• Chia-Chiao Lin - mathematician
• John Little - Management Advisor
• Francis Low - physicist
• Thomas Magnanti - management advisor, computer scientist and electrical engineer

Across the Charles River from Boston is small town Cambridge, which is famous throughout the world for the fact that it houses two universities that traditionally occupy one of the first places in the ranking of the most prestigious universities in the USA and the world - the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University. In different rankings you can see different numbers, somewhere MIT is in 1st place, and Harvard is in 2nd, somewhere Harvard is in 2nd, and MIT is in 6th, somewhere Harvard is in 1st place, and MIT is in 3rd, but all rankings converge in One thing is that these universities are among the best in the world, and the world’s best and richest companies will fight for their graduates.

1. MIT welcomes you with a bizarre building called the Stata Center.

2. The building was built according to the design of Frank Gehry, one of the greatest architects of our time, who stood at the origins of architectural deconstructivism, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 1989. Henry designed a large number of bizarrely shaped buildings, including the Seattle Music Museum and the famous Dancing House, one of the modern landmarks of Prague.

3. All buildings on the MIT campus are numbered; the Stata Center is numbered 32.

4. The Stata Center houses several laboratories, the most interesting of which are the Laboratory of Informatics and Artificial Intelligence (the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was once founded here - an organization that develops and implements technological standards for World Wide Web, the fruits of the work that we all benefit from and thanks to which I can publish this post), Laboratory of Information and Decision Making Systems and the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy.

5. Some interiors and inhabitants of the Stata Center.

6. MIT is an innovator in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence, and its educational programs in engineering, information technology, economics, physics, chemistry and mathematics are recognized year after year as the best in the United States by the U.S. News & World Report, known for its system of ranking national universities. The institute is also renowned in many other fields, including management, economics, linguistics, political science and philosophy. The building in the photo is home to cutting-edge research in the field of aeronautics.

7. This building 7. There is a Visitor Center where visitors can get necessary information. Here you can take a detailed map of the territory with the designations of all buildings for an independent tour of the territory of the institute.

8. A group of Asians in blue T-shirts are photographed on the steps of building number 7.

9. In some places throughout the territory there are stands with maps of the campus.

10. Many students move around the university campus on bicycles. There are Boston automatic bike-sharing stations here.

11. Each building has bicycle parking. Pay attention to the background of photo number 9 - there is a bicycle parking lot with a huge number of bikes.

12. A network of bicycle paths runs through the territory.

13. Let's go back inside. Hall of building number 7 and Asians in blue T-shirts.

14. University coat of arms.

15. One of the corridors. There is a mandatory AED - defibrillator here, in case someone becomes ill. By the way, many of the buildings on campus are interconnected; we walked around a dozen buildings in a circle without going outside. This is the so-called “Endless Corridor” - a 251-meter corridor passing through the main buildings of the institute and is the fastest route from the eastern wing of the campus to the western. Twice a year - in mid-November and late January - the corridor line is aligned with the ecliptic plane, as a result of which the entire corridor is filled sunlight. This phenomenon is called MIThenge and is celebrated by MIT students and employees.

16. Building number 10 - Great Dome. It can be easily seen when viewing Boston from above. observation deck.

17. Some details from the corridors. Gays are welcome here - the rainbow card on the rainbow flag announces this. The sticker with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter refers to the topic of black rights and police brutality.

18. There are such notice boards in the corridors of literally every building.

19. I’ll show you some classrooms. This one was closed, but through the glass one could see a little chaos and iMacs, on which the future best minds of humanity study.

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21. Unfortunately, we were walking around MIT at the very end of the holidays, so the classrooms were empty: the students had not arrived yet. I am sure that it would be much more interesting to take a walk here in the midst of school year. But I think we will come back here again, especially since the campus is huge, we haven’t even visited 5%.

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24. Offices and offices of the institute’s employees. You can go in everywhere, look and take photographs (well, of course, you have to ask, but they are unlikely to refuse), but it is advisable not to disturb too much, because people are working.

25. In one of the offices I saw an interesting picture and a model of a space shuttle, I asked permission from the woman who worked there to take a photo, she kindly gave me permission and also told me what it was. The artist who painted the picture is the daughter of physics professor Emeritus Stanislav Olbert, a close associate of professor Bruno Rossi and a member of the group that was engaged in space plasma research, which was headed by Rossi. The artist was inspired to create the painting by photographs of the planet Jupiter taken by the Voyager I and II spacecraft in 1979, for which a group of scientists from MIT made plasma detectors.

26. On the box under the antenna is written "Time capsule. Do not open until 2053."

27. Now some laboratories. Many laboratories have glass walls through which you can see the work inside. Unfortunately, due to the absence of students, almost all of them were empty.

28. These are the laboratories of the materials research department.

29. A small idea of ​​the level of complexity of the scientific fields being pursued within these walls can be judged by the navigation signs, the names on which will be incomprehensible to most ordinary people.

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35. In some labs it is mandatory to wear sterile shoe covers.

36. Some cannot be entered at all without special permission. Signs about dangers are constantly flashing - lasers, radiation, chemical substances. In this sign: 4 on a blue background is the most high level health hazards (deadly); 4 on a red background - the highest level of fire danger; 3 on a yellow background - the penultimate level of explosion hazard (may detonate when heated or shaken); on a white background OXY - apparently indicates the presence of an oxidizing agent.

Unfortunately, limited time did not allow us to wander around MIT and explore it in more detail. It would be cool to see student dormitories, canteens and cafes, and sports complexes. I'm sure many more interesting posts could be written on it. This means that we will definitely come back here again. In one of the next posts I will show a little about Harvard University.

Novi Sad rivals Belgrade as Serbia's capital in art, architecture and culture. This is a city where literally every door and cobblestone on the pavement is imbued with the atmosphere of travel. It is designed for the perfect tourist day: in the morning you will visit the noble fortress of Petrovorodin, then fill your belly with meat in one of the kafanas and end the day with a party on the club street Laze Teleckog. You'll visit the city's churches, galleries and museums, and gain energy in the beautiful parks, open-air bars and promenade beaches. You will stroll along the main pedestrian street of the city with pink, yellow and blue spots of Austro-Hungarian houses. And this is what Novi Sad is all about.

To get to Novi Sad, you must first get to Belgrade, and from there take a bus or train. Belavia offers direct flights to the capital for €250. You can save by choosing a route with a transfer in Moscow or Warsaw. Then tickets will cost € 200-220.

Another option is to fly to Budapest from Minsk (€160 on LOT) or Warsaw (€70-100 on Wizz Air, transfer possible in Stockholm or Liverpool). From Hungary to Novi Sad you can take a bus (€ 19-27) or train (€ 13-20). You’ll save money and see several cities.

If you get the dates right, you can get to Belgrade from Vilnius on Turkish Airlines for €135. Wizz Air will take you directly to the Serbian capital from Warsaw for €130 with a transfer in Dortmund.

A bus from Belgrade to Novi Sad will cost € 3-5. There is a problem with electronic booking in Serbia, so you need to check the time and cost of the trip with the cashier. Fortunately, most of the capital's workers understand English. Also keep in mind that in Serbia you have to pay about € 1.2 to enter the platform. You can also get to Novi Sad by train; the trip will cost € 3. However, trains in Serbia leave much to be desired, so we recommend choosing a bus.

By the way, Serbs also actively use BlaBlaCar. If you are coming from Ljubljana, Zagreb, Sofia or Podgorica, a bus ticket will cost approximately €30.

Novi Sad is a small city, all the sights can be explored on foot. However, you can use public transport- the ticket is sold by the driver (€ 0.4). A taxi is cheap: on average, a trip will cost € 1.6-2.5. It is better to choose companies such as Pan, Vojvodjani, SOS, Delta, Novus, Naš, Vip, Red and MB. The rest can charge you four times as much.

A great idea is to rent a bike. Some hostels offer such services to their guests, so always check with the reception. In a pinch, NS Bike will help. Renting a bike costs €0.8 per day, but you will have to pay for a card (€4) and a deposit (€41).

You can rent a car with the help of the company Sixt. Prices start from €31 per night. More a budget option offers Europcar. The cheapest car will cost €23 per day. Both companies offer rentals only to people over 21 years of age.

Novi Sad - tourist town, so finding an inexpensive and decent hostel is not a problem. But if you want real Serbian hospitality, book a place in Tesla Art Hostel (Safarikova 7). Accommodation 5 minutes from Freedom Square, three-meter ceilings, coffee machine and designer chandeliers - all available for € 15 per night. A special bonus is the friendly owners who will be happy to advise best places in the city and will be treated to local wine.

Varad Inn (Shtrosmajerova 16). The name speaks for itself - the building is located near the Petrovaradin Fortress. The hostel has its own courtyard, and there is a cafe on the ground floor. Great option, if you are going to attend the EXIT music festival. If this is not part of your plans, then for the same price (€ 15 per day) you can find an option closer to the center.

For example, a hostel Kutak (Jevrejska 22). Everything is nearby: Freedom Square, the Danube Park, and the synagogue. But you will have to walk to the beach and the fortress. From the outside, the building looks like a nice little white house with a balcony: it feels like you’re not checking into a hostel, but as if you’re visiting a friend. The hostel itself is small, and near the reception there are photo wallpapers with birch trees that are pleasing to the eye. A night in a shared room will cost you €10.50, and for a double room you will pay €36.50.

Another budget option - City Hostel (Radnicka 21). A night's stay will cost €10 for a dorm and €26 for a double room. Visitors are greeted by neat flower beds and “Welcome” in 28 languages. In the living room you will find table football, PlayStation and UNO. The downside is that there is literally no room to spread out in a double room.

Are you planning to check into a hotel? Stop choosing Fontana (Nikole Pasica 27). For € 34.30 (single room with double bed) you get a central location (100 meters from Freedom Square), breakfast, underground parking and a spacious room. If you're lucky, maybe even with a balcony. All rooms are decorated in light colors and with good lighting. This is important, because during the day the Serbs hide from the heat behind impenetrable roller shutters.

While it’s not difficult to find a good hostel in Novi Sad, things aren’t so great when it comes to hotels. You either pay for cramped rooms with red Soviet carpets, or you are forced to live on the outskirts. A good option is a boutique hotel Arta (Heroja Pinkija 12). It is located 3 km from Freedom Square and 4.5 km from Petrovaradin Fortress. The rooms are spacious with a modern design, parking spaces are reserved behind the hotel. You will pay €40 for a single room or €48 for a double room.

Most popular tourist place in Novi Sad - Petrovaradin Fortress (Tvrdava 4). If the sun is not too hot, you can spend more than one hour there. The castle houses the city museum, catacombs, art studios and art spaces, several clubs and restaurants, an observatory and a planetarium. The observatory is open only in clear weather, and the planetarium can be visited on Saturdays from 19:00 to 12:00 at night. If you want to go on an excursion, reserve a place in advance - they are snapped up instantly. Entrance to the fortress is free. You can get to it on foot or by bus No. 3.

Opposite the Fortress, on the other bank of the Danube, there is an embankment. During the day it is empty, but in the evenings there is nowhere for an apple to fall: all the local youth flock to the water. If you want to make new friends among the locals and invite yourself to a house party, the first thing you should do is go there.

One of the most beautiful sights of the city - Catholic Cathedral of the Virgin Mary(Freedom Square) . The building looks very impressive: it is made in the neo-Gothic style, with a high bell tower and a sharp spire. Inside the cathedral there is a tomb, an organ, painted altars and carved sculptures of saints. It is located on Freedom Square - in the very heart of Novi Sad. From there there are streets lined with restaurants and shops, the most important of which is Zmaj Jovina Street.

If you're drawn to majestic buildings, head to Synagogue on the Jewish street. Now it is not in use and remains closed most of the time, opening only for special events. However, it makes sense to admire at least the façade of the building.

If you have a free day, visit the mountain Fruška, which was once an island in the now evaporated Pannonian Sea. Today its gardens and vineyards make up national park, carved out by a network of walking trails. The hill, also known as the Holy Mountain, houses sixteen monasteries.

Another popular activity in Novi Sad is hiking. Mountaineering clubs Naftas And Zeleznicar (Trg gallery 4) organize hikes to Mount Fruska and the surrounding area of ​​Novi Sad every weekend.

About 15 km south of Novi Sad, close to the main road to the village of Irig, is Novo Hopovo(southern slope of Mount Frushki, near Iriga) - a picturesque monastery with a Byzantine church. Nearby there are two more monastic churches of the 16th century - elegant white Krušedol (Krusedol village, Fruska Gora National Park) And Vrdnik-Ravanica (Frushka Gora, Vrdnik) . Keep in mind that you won’t be able to get to the monasteries without a car.

For cultural enlightenment, go to City Museum of Novi Sad(Safarikova 7). It houses the largest collection of foreign art in all of Serbia. In 1996, Dr. Branko Ilic donated his art collection, consisting of 136 paintings and 279 sculptures, antique furniture and other objects of applied art. As you understand, now there is something to see there. The exhibition features works from France, Germany, Italy and Austria. The exhibition is open from 10:00 to 18:00, entry fee is € 0.8.

For beach adventures, go to Strand. In summer, the beach is paid, the entrance fee is € 1.5. There are a lot of people there, but there is always a chance to find company for volleyball. And near the entrance, be sure to try the Thai ice cream. Prices in a cafe on the beach are steep: be prepared to pay 3 times more for a cocktail.

If you want to do yoga in a relaxed atmosphere, check out Danube Park (Dunavska). A sea of ​​roses and swans in a pond - what could be better for quiet meditation? True, it’s better to come early in the morning: the park is popular among locals, so closer to noon a horde of screaming kids with ice cream will start running around you.

In July, crowds of music lovers flock to Novi Sad to attend the largest music festival in Central Europe - EXIT. Melodies are played for every taste: from rock and reggae to techno and house. The festival boasts famous performers: Alan Walker, Robin Schulz, Foreign Beggars, Rag'n'Bone Man and others came this year. Another bonus: EXIT is located in the Petrovaradin Fortress. So prepare yourself for the sounds of electro house within medieval walls.

If you want a quick and inexpensive snack, bakeries can help. They are in Serbia at every step. A huge slice of pizza will cost you about €1. Plus you can find the traditional Balkan burek pie, all kinds of buns, puff pastries with sweet and savory fillings and citrus lemonade.

Finding a good restaurant with Balkan cuisine in Serbia is not easy. Most often, acquaintance with local delicacies occurs in bakeries and small eateries. And yet there are a couple of restaurants where you can catch the spirit of Serbia.

One of them - Lazin Salaš (Laze Telechkog 5). Their cuisine is homemade, without any special frills, but with huge portions. The place itself is decorated as country house, there are napkins with ornaments on the tables, and in the evenings guests are entertained by tamburaši - musicians performing folk drinking songs. On the menu you will find stuffed chicken with mushroom sauce, goulash, homemade sausages and dessert šnenokle (we call it “Floating Island”). For drinks, try medovača - brandy made with honey.

Another place with Serbian dishes - bar-restaurant Piknik (Ribarac Bb). Locally worth trying is veal in horseradish and uštipci (deep-fried dough balls) with all sorts of fillings.

For beer and tasty meat you need to go to Krilce I Pivce (Futoska 42). In addition to the popular Kozel beer brand, they also offer craft beer (you can even take a couple of bottles with you). Order a plate of chicken wings to go with it. It seems that Krilce I Pivce wants to overwhelm you with a variety of flavors: here you can find wings with honey and pepper, pistachio, curry, chocolate, parmesan and parsley, barbecue and garlic sauce.

If you want to have a luxury evening with smoked tuna, halloumi with olive marmalade and a glass of spicy red wine, come to Project 72 Wine&Deli (Kosovska 15a). High prices are compensated by an interesting presentation of dishes, an extensive wine list and an unusual interior that combines traditional wooden elements with modern design.

Novi Sad has its own “bar” street - Laze Telekog. This is where most of the city's drinking establishments are located. One of them - Martha's Pub (3 Laze Telečkog). People come here for socializing, which is facilitated by sweet rakia, aromatic medovaca and other Serbian liqueurs. And of course, Serbian beer - Jelen, LAV and Zajecarsko.

If you want a beer menu like in the best bars in Vilnius, go to Large&Wine (17 Svetozara Miletića) . With its dark and elegant appearance, Larger&Wine is a favorite destination for all drink lovers. This traditional Serbian pub serves beer from both large breweries and small local breweries. If you're looking for unusual flavors, check out Young's Double Chocolate Stout. A large wine list is included.

Gastro pub Camelot (9 Skremska) is located near the Petrovoradin fortress and is stylized as the Middle Ages. According to locals, this is the best beer place in the city. A dimly lit interior, good burgers and the rich tones of craft beer are the ingredients for a pleasant evening after a tiring excursion.

If you are not a fan of alcohol, we recommend checking out Wake Up Juice Bar (12 Milete Jaksica). The establishment specializes in juices and healthy eating. Fresh fruit, natural cookies and ice cream - that's what Wake Up is all about. People who have a hard time living in Serbia with its love of meat and rakia - vegetarians, vegans and those who do not drink alcohol - are welcome here. And even if you don't belong to any of these groups, take a moment and try their blackberry smoothie.

When you arrive in Serbia, first of all go to splavori- nightclubs on the river bank. And be sure to rock out to turbo folk - traditional Serbian music mixed with techno. Behind these two national characteristics go to Ribarsko Ostrvo - finding a suitable establishment there will not be difficult.

KC Utopia (43 Svetozara Miletića) - one of the most popular clubs in Novi Sad. On the ground floor you can enjoy Serbian and Middle Eastern cuisine. And on the second floor, avid party makers are having a blast to the sounds of electro house. All this is flavored with fizzy colorful cocktails and fluorescent lights - here's the recipe for a great party.

Another popular place with electro music is the pub. Skripa(Jevrejska 1). Locals praise good ale and a warm atmosphere (as warm as it can be given such musical preferences). The pub hosts events every week, attracting young Serbian DJs.

If electro, house and techno don't appeal to you (and they are very popular in Serbia), then check out