Ada Ciganlija

Ada Ciganlija (Serbian Cyrillic: Ада Циганлија ) is a river island, artificially turned into a peninsula, in the Sava River's just 4 km from the city centre of Belgrade.

Located close to the city's downtown, covered with thick deciduous trees and dotted with clearings and fields, Ada has become the largest, most beautiful and most popular, picnic, bathing beach and place to relax in Belgrade, which during summer seasons have over 100,000 visitors daily and up to 300,000 visitors over the weekend. Because of that, Ada Ciganlija has been commonly nicknamed "Belgrade Sea",

The lake is 4.2 kilometers long, has an average width of 200 meters and is 4 to 6 meters deep. The water regularly reaches 24 Celsius during summer.

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Ada Ciganlija has more than 50 open-air sports fields, including a golf course, and cable-ski circuit. There are football pitches, tennis courts, volleyball, handball and basketball courts, rugby and hockey pitches. There are also beach volleyball courts and inflatable water soccer pitches, and facilities for the extreme sports of bungee-jumping, paintball and wall-climbing.

During the summer Ada Ciganlija is a cultural and entertainment centre of Belgrade.

Numerous lines of the city public transportation routes close to the northern entrance to the Ada: bus lines number 23, 37, 51, 53, 56, 57, 58, 88, 89, 91, 92, 511 and 551.