The best traffic-free bike rides in Vojvodina

Unfortunately there is a lot of rubbish here.

An unfinished or abandoned house with a “PRODAJE SE” (For Sale) sign asking €250,000. Overgrown vegetation adds a post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Such places can be curious stops for a break. If you’re exploring real estate, note that rural homes like this are often cheap but need major renovation.

Locations like this are interesting landmarks but usually restricted areas. Best to take quick photos from outside the fence without lingering too long.

Good road for bikes only

Excellent way to avoid bussy Novi Sad. Ferry goes every hour. Full hour from Beočin and half hour from Futog. In winter season last ferry is at 16:00h.

The synagogue is the most monumental sacred building in the city. Along with the former Jewish school building (on the left) and the Jewish Community building (on the right), the Synagogue was constructed in the first decade of the 20th century according to the designs of the Budapest architect Lipót Baumhorn, known for his numerous buildings done in the Secessionist style. Its impressive presence and rich decoration testify to the former power and grandeur of the Jewish community, which had been present in Novi Sad since its beginnings. The first synagogue was erected as early as 1717, as a witness to the fact that Jews were among the first inhabitants of Novi Sad. Before World War II, Novi Sad had a Jewish population of around 4,300. About 800 were killed during the Novi Sad Raid from January 21 to 23, 1942. After the Third Reich occupied Hungary in March 1944, the Nazis began implementing the "Final Solution to the Jewish question” in these areas as well. In April 1944, a ghetto was established in the Synagogue's courtyard, from which almost all of Novi Sad's Jews were deported to Auschwitz on April 27. After the war, only about 300 Jews remained in Novi Sad. Many Jews joined the anti-fascist movement and the People's Liberation Movement (NOP) from the beginning of the occupation and fought in the ranks of the partisans. In 2023, a monument was erected in the Synagogue's courtyard to commemorate the fallen Jewish fighters against fascism. [This site is part of the Liberation Routes cycling tour "The Danube to Victory Route" (58km)] https://www.komoot.com/tour/1933369594?share_token=aRc7kQYJ01cywoOlRPXzWvplRxrDI3K22D17Rs90xCFiVo5TvF&ref=wtd

The building is a good example of modernist architecture that was dominant in Yugoslavia between the two world wars. Although the author of the hotel was Marjan Ivačić, the original project was adapted by Đorđe Tabaković, one of the leading architects of Yugoslav modernism. The hotel was erected in 1935 on the initiative of the Mountaineering Society "Fruška Gora." The society was founded in 1924 to popularize and develop local tourism, mountaineering, and re-connection with nature. Among the founders was the lawyer Ignjat Pavlas (1886-1942), a pre-war Yugoslav patriot and leader of anti-Axis demonstrations held in Novi Sad on the 27th of March 1941, as well as Vasa Stajić, a famous Serbian intellectual, politician, and anti-fascist. In the Youth Organization of the Mountaineering Society "Fruška Gora," some prominent communist and anti-fascist activists were active, such as Branko Bajić (1911-1942), a member of the Regional Committee of KPJ for Vojvodina. He used this organization as a cover to organize camping meetings of Communist Youth from the Vojvodina province on Fruška Gora before the war started. During the war, Hotel "Venac" and its surroundings were one of the most important fascist strongholds in the Fruška Gora hills, and the hotel was occupied by German and Croatian military units throughout the conflict. Iriški Venac region was liberated by the 7th Vojvodina Brigade in the middle of October 1944. After the war, the hotel was renovated and used for tourist accommodation until the civil war in Yugoslavia in the 1990s, when the hotel was transformed into a refugee center for Serbian people from Bosnia and Croatia. After their resettlement, the hotel was closed down and left to decay, which remains the case to this day. [This site is part of the Liberation Routes cycling tour "The Danube to Victory Route" (58km)] https://www.komoot.com/tour/1933369594?share_token=aRc7kQYJ01cywoOlRPXzWvplRxrDI3K22D17Rs90xCFiVo5TvF&ref=wtd

[There are two historical monuments. The more visible one is a large stone block surrounded by smaller stones, but there is also another, smaller memorial nearby.] - Monument to Three Fallen Partisans This location was one of the important reconnaissance points for the Danube Partisan Detachment, known as “Lipa” (which means Linden tree). On the first day of the Great enemy offensive, 25th of August 1942, two prominent fighters of the 3rd Company of the Danube Detachment, Svetozar Golubović Mitraljeta and Paja Zarić King, as well as courier Vasa Vojnović Crni, were killed here after encountering German units. The rest of the 3rd Company successfully broke through the enemy encirclement and retreated to the Čortanovci forests near the Danube shores. - Monument of the 4th Company of the Danube Partisan Detachment The Danube Detachment was formed in February 1942, initially consisting of groups of fighters from Irig and Krušedol. While the Fruška Gora Detachment operated in the western part of the mountain, the Danube Detachment focused its activities on the eastern part of Fruška Gora. Both detachments grew in numbers by the summer of 1942, expanding to five companies, which operated mainly in the area between Iriški Venac and Sremski Karlovci, but also established contacts with other Danube locations in eastern Srem. At the height of its activity, the Danube Detachment's companies would raid villages, burn archives, drive out occupying forces, carry out sabotage, and seize weapons and food. The further growth of the Danube Detachment was halted by the Great Enemy Offensive in August 1942, which did not result in many casualties among the partisans but temporarily severed the ties between the local population and the partisans due to brutal fascist terror in the villages. After most fighters were sent to Bosnia in November 1942, where the first Vojvodina brigades were formed, the remaining fighters of the Fruška Gora and Danube Detachments formed the First Srem Detachment in 1943. Throughout Fruška Gora, along the Partizanski put, during the 1970s and 1980s, memorials were erected. These are large stone blocks marking the locations of the partisan detachments and their companies. [This site is part of the Liberation Routes cycling tour "The Danube to Victory Route"] https://www.komoot.com/tour/1933369594?share_token=aRc7kQYJ01cywoOlRPXzWvplRxrDI3K22D17Rs90xCFiVo5TvF&ref=wtd