Čardak (
Cyrillic
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: Чардак) is a neighborhood of
Sremska Kamenica
Sremska Kamenica (Serbian Cyrillic: Сремска Каменица, ) is a town and urban neighborhood of Novi Sad, in Serbia.
Name
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Serbia
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. This neighborhood is located on a hill, with an elevation of 190 m, overlooking
Donja Kamenica to the north,
Alibegovac to the east and
Paragovo and
Staroiriški Put to the west. Čardak is only a few kilometers from the border of
Fruška Gora National Park.
From Čardak, there are also views of the western part of
Novi Sad
Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; #Name, see below for other names) is the List of cities in Serbia, second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pannoni ...
,
Veternik
Veternik ( sr-cyr, Ветерник) is a suburban settlement of the city of Novi Sad, Serbia. Over the years, especially in the 1990s, it grew with size and inhabitants thus merging with Futog to the west and Novi Sad to the east.
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and the
Danube
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river. Čardak is connected to the Sremska Kamenica center and Novi Sad by
JGSP Novi Sad
JGSP Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, ЈГСП Нови Сад; full legal name in sr-Cyrl-Latn, Јавно Градско Саобраћајно Предузеће Нови Сад, Javno Gradsko Saobraćajno Preduzeće Novi Sad) is a Public transport, public ...
bus line number 69 and 71 (only specific departures).
Children’s Hospital for Treatment of Osteoarticular Tuberculosis
The English-Yugoslav Children’s Hospital for Treatment of Osteoarticular Tuberculosis was founded in Čardak by
Katherine S. Macphail in 1934. The hospital was nationalized in 1947 and became part of the Orthopedic Surgery Department of the Faculty of Medicine in Belgrade in 1948. The hospital closed again due to lack of repairs and investments, but reopened during the
Yugoslav Wars
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as a safe haven for fleeing refugees. It subsequently closed for economic reasons, but a statue of Macphail remains. A street in Čardak , where the hospital used to be, is now named after Katherine Macphail.
References
Novi Sad neighborhoods
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