Introducing Novi Sad

For much of the year Novi Sad is 'Belgrade on Valium', having much of what the capital has to offer but at a far more sedate pace. A variety of interesting cafés, bars, museums, pedestrian streets and the mighty Petrovaradin Citadel merit a day jaunt from Belgrade, or a longer period to explore the monasteries and vineyards of Fruška Gora.

Come July the town explodes with a flood of festival-goers, who troop in for the annual Exit Festival.