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EXIT Festival
Summer in a fortress
An internationally known summer music festival, staged inside Novi Sad’s Petrovaradin Fortress.
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About EXIT Festival
EXIT began in 2000 and grew into one of Europe’s best-known music festivals, a three-time winner of the title of best European festival, with stages spread across the 18th-century Petrovaradin Fortress high above the Danube. Picture dancing on the ramparts with Novi Sad lit up across the river. After a year spent staging events abroad, the organisers have announced that EXIT is coming home to the fortress next July for a special edition, with a full-scale return planned for 2028. Novi Sad is a short fast-train ride from Belgrade, and rooms go quickly, so book early.
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- Stages inside a fortress
- Born as a student festival
- Fast train from Belgrade
- Address
- Novi Sad, the Balkans
- Website
- exitfest.org
- Our city guide
- On our Belgrade guide
- Price guide
- €€€ (arts & culture price guide)
Opening hours, prices and seasonal openings change, so please check with EXIT Festival before you go.
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