{"id":11982,"date":"2021-07-13T16:08:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitdistrikt.rs\/?p=11982"},"modified":"2021-07-13T16:08:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-13T14:08:23","slug":"40-years-of-spens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitdistrikt.rs\/en\/2021\/07\/13\/40-years-of-spens\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Years of SPENS: Interesting Facts About the Famous Novi Sad Edifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>14 April is an important date for Novi Sad \u2013 on that day in 1981, SPENS was opened. It\u2019s one of the symbols of the city every citizen of Novi Sad has fond memories of.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span>Many have learned to swim and <a href=\"https:\/\/visitdistrikt.rs\/en\/2021\/04\/01\/places-for-children-in-novi-sad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ice skate<\/a> here, won medals in sports competitions and attended <a href=\"https:\/\/visitdistrikt.rs\/en\/2020\/12\/18\/staff-of-novi-sad-from-rubinstein-to-laibach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">concerts of great musicians<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>There are many reasons why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spens.rs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPENS<\/a> is important for the citizens of Novi Sad. On the occasion of celebrating its 40th birthday, we\u2019re going to remind you about the interesting facts about this edifice, as well as those that fell into oblivion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>How did SPENS come to be? After Chine gave up on organising the 36th World Table Tennis Championship, Novi Sad accepted candidacy for being the host. This was the reason for building SPENS. SPENS is short for Stonotenisko Prvenstvo Novi Sad (en. Table Tennis Championship in Novi Sad), therefore the very name preserves the memory of this event. SPENS was opened on 14 April 1981.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>\u017divorad Jankovi\u0107<\/strong> and <strong>Branko Buli\u0107<\/strong> from the Institute for Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture from Sarajevo, designed this modern edifice of The Sports and Business Center Vojvodina, which is the \u2018real\u2019 name of SPENS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In 1982, legendary Michael Jordan played here with his university selection from the US against Yugoslavia. Our team won 93:92.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In addition to numerous sports events, SPENS is a well-known concert venue where many famous local musicians have performed, such as <strong>\u0110or\u0111e Bala\u0161evi\u0107<\/strong>, <strong>D\u017eiboni<\/strong>, <em>Parni Valjak<\/em>, <strong>Zdravko \u010coli\u0107<\/strong> and others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Author<\/strong>: Leona Pap<\/em><br \/>\n<em><strong>Photo<\/strong>: Vladimir Veli\u010dkovi\u0107<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>14 April is an important date for Novi Sad \u2013 on that day in 1981, SPENS was opened. 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