Maximize your Christmas experience by embarking at the height of the holiday market season with daily or near-daily visits to Christmas Markets.
Get "just a taste" of the holidays in mid-November or late December with visits to one or two Christmas Markets during your river cruise.
We are pleased to offer guests the opportunity to experience Floriade in 2022 while sailing along the Rhine River and Dutch and Belgian Waterways between April 14 and October 9. Right outside Amsterdam, this rare experience calls for its visitors to “explore, touch and change” as part of their journey into Floriade – which is set to feature stunning gardens, innovative sustainable gardening exhibits, live entertainment, talk shows, souvenirs and food stalls.
We invite you to join our incredible cruise on the Rhône with a Latin Touch, featuring bilingual cruise managers, daily tours with Spanish-speaking guides, Latin-inspired music nights and other distinctive elements.
Based on the overwhelmingly positive response received from the announcement of our first-ever “Soulful Experience” on the Rhône River in 2023, we are delighted to announce four new opportunities for guests to celebrate their heritage and discover Black history and culture along the rivers with us in 2024.
Join award-winning television host and travel expert, Samantha Brown, Godmother of AmaMagna, as we cruise through four countries along the Danube River. Special events and Travel Talks are included on this exclusive sailing.
We invite you to join our incredible cruise on the Danube with a Latin Touch, featuring bilingual cruise managers, daily tours with Spanish-speaking guides, Latin-inspired music nights and other distinctive elements.
Explore the rich history of classical music along the Danube River where famous composers lived, worked and performed. Plus, be treated to a variety of live performances on this melodious journey.
Based on the overwhelmingly positive response received from the announcement of our first-ever “Soulful Experience” on the Rhône River in 2023, we are delighted to announce four new opportunities for guests to celebrate their heritage and discover Black history and culture along the rivers with us in 2025
Join award-winning television host and travel expert, Samantha Brown, Godmother of AmaMagna, as we cruise through five countries along the Danube River. Special events and Travel Talks are included on this exclusive sailing.
We invite you to join our incredible cruise on the Douro with a Latin Touch, featuring bilingual cruise managers, daily tours with Spanish-speaking guides, Latin-inspired music nights and other distinctive elements.
We invite our loyal past guests to join us once again on these special Loyalty Cruises, offering unique experiences in multiple ports, commemorative gifts, and many more surprises and delights.
Imagine if there was a way to combine luxury river cruising on the Danube with the opportunity to indulge your passion and play golf? We have created the perfect package to enable you to do just that! Our exclusive Concierge Golf Programme includes 7 nights onboard one of the highest rated ships in Europe, complete with award winning cuisine, a choice of excursions in every port and our unique Twin Balconies, as well as up to 5 rounds of golf at some of the leading championship courses on the continent. Our Programme takes you straight from your ship to the course and back making your golfing experience seamless – Golf and River Cruise truly is a marriage made in heaven.
Hello! "I'm Kristin Karst, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of AmaWaterways and I'm passionate about river cruising. Each month, I love to share with you my thoughts, personal stories, travel tips and latest news on the people and places that help turn every mile of our guests' river cruise experience into one of their most cherished memories!"
One of the most substantial, complex and preserved artillery bastions – a protected maze of underground tunnels and mine galleries with listening tunnels. Explore the Petrovaradin fortress on our Gems of Southeast Europe and Grand Danube itineraries.
Old and New Sights
Tour well-preserved barracks, officers’ pavilions, food warehouses, arsenals, water stations, guard-houses, artillery sheds, powder houses, chapels and monumental main gates. Modern additions include a nightclub, delicious restaurants offering various specialties, pastry shops, historical archive, museum, observatory, planetarium, synagogue and artists’ studios and galleries. A unique Clock Tower, with the clock’s face more than 6.5 feet high and the roles of the minute and hour hands reversed (so that the big hand points to the hour and the small hand indicates the minute), sits high up on the bluff, letting fisherman see the time from far off. The clock still operates and rings every hour. Another popular stop are the catacombs located in the fortress, which are believed to contain the riches of Serbia’s medieval leaders. And of course, it offers stunning views over the city of Novi Sad and its bridges.
"The Town on the Rock"
A legend tells that the Petrovaradin name is derived from numerous languages – ‘Petra’ is Latin for rock, ‘var’ is Hungarian for town and ‘din is Turkish for faith – hence ‘Petrovaradin’ literally means ‘the town on the rock, firm as faith.’ But it is also often called the “Gibraltar of the Danube” because of its strategic position on the cliffs.
Ancient Civilizations
The fort takes design cues from master military engineer Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban’s fortified system of bastion lines (AmaWaterways tours one of his premier fortresses in Blaye, France). An extraordinary example of 18th century engineering, the history of Novi Sad dates back thousands of years. While remains of archaic military ramparts were discovered to be from the early Bronze Age (circa 3000 BC), archaeologists have discovered that there has been a continuous settlement here since the Paleolithic Age (19,000-15,000 BC).
Transforming the Fortress
Originally constructed under Roman rule, Cistercian monks expanded upon the fortress in the 13th century. Later, the Ottomans captured it in 1526 before it came under fire again and was won over by the Austrians in 1687. Knowing they needed to build a more secure fortress to keep the Turks at bay, and protect Vienna and Budapest from a further siege – the Austrians demolished what was left of the medieval fort in 1690.
A delegate of Emperor Leopold I laid the cornerstone of the present-day fortress on October 18, 1692. When it was completed 88 years later, it was the strongest and best-equipped fortress in the Austrian Empire with a garrison of 4000 people, 400 canons and massive gunpowder warehouses. Still, by this time the threat of war did not loom as large and so, in effect, the fortress became more of an administrative, army, spy and information center. It has since been demilitarized. In 1991, it was listed as a cultural and historical complex of great importance.
Visit the Petrovaradin Fortress on our Gems of Southeast and Grand Danube itineraries.