Banovina Palace

The Banovina palace, the popular "Banovina", was the seat of the Ban of the Danube Banovina (1939-1941) and the Ban's headquaters. Today in the building there are the Provincial Government and the assembly of AP Vojvodina. The imposing building, whose unique composition consists of two separate buildings, built according to the projects of the architect Dragiša Brašovan in the period between 1935 and 1940, on the empty space of "Mali Liman" on the former Bulevard of Queen Mary, and it's present address is Boulevard of Mihaila Pupina No.16. In the administrative building in which it was located after the war, Ban's administration was placed in the executive bodies of the province of Vojvodina. The building was built by a new boulevard, in the form of a horseshoe base, and it's 185 meters long and 42.5 meters wide. The height, except for the tower is about 20 meters, the building has five levels, from the basement to the attic and it has has five entrances. There are 569 departments in the building , mostly offices, arranged towards outside facades. The entire architectural composition of the palace is accentuated by a 42 meter high tower. Above the cruciform base (57.5 - 100 meters) was built as a ban's residence, with a hall and 147 rooms. This building is conceived as a compact, complex building within which the central position of the hall are the meeting rooms for the assembly sessions. Banovina represents our country's one of the most beautiful buildings of architecture of the 20th century By the announcement of King Aleksandar I Karađorđević in 1929, Novi Sad became the capital city of one of the nine Yugoslav banovina, the Danube Banovina. The last ban of the Danube Banovina left the Bans apartment on the day of the capitulation of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.