Balkans' biggest water slide opens in Jagodina's aqua park

On Saturday (July 23, 2011), the aqua park in Jagodina got another swimming pool, spanning 500 square meters, an "extreme" water slide 15 meters high, and a restaurant with 70 seats.

The construction works cost RSD 70,000,000, 20m of which were provided as an assistance from the Serbian government, while the rest came from a source of the city of Jagodina and the aqua park's own sources.

Jagodina Mayor Dragan Markovic Palma opened these new contents in the presence of representatives of the city authorities, tourist workers, and bathers.

Welcoming the guests from the country and abroad, Markovic assessed that tourism was very important branch of economy for Serbia and stressed that Jagodina had been visited by 500,000 tourists in 2010 and that 700,000 of them were expected in 2011.

Mayor Markovic reminded that Jagodina was still the only city in Serbia to have an aqua park where tourists from all cities in the country were coming. He added that the aqua park employed 150 young people, whereas about 500 families in the city earned for their living by renting rooms to tourists.

Markovic invited investors to build hotels in Jagodina and pointed out that the city had a shortage of between 200 and 300 rooms every day. He also expressed belief that the occupancy in such facility would amount to 99 percent.

Zoran Gligorijevic, director of the aqua park, told Tanjug news agency that the aqua park, spanning three hectares, was 40 ares bigger after the new contents were introduced.

- The new swimming pool is for non-swimmers since it is only 130 cm deep, while the water slide is the biggest in the Balkans - said Gligorijevic.

- The water slide is 150 meters long and has a spiral shape - Gligorijevic explained and added that the aqua park had also got a space for 200 new deck chairs, new toilets with showers...