Photogallery of Kecskemet, Hungary

The Hungarian city of Kecskemet is situated in the heart of the Hungarian Valley. This settlement has become internationally acclaimed because of its maiolica, various ornaments, and apricot vodka. Tourists from all over the world come here to see attractive buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries, visit an interesting museum of naive art, admire exhibits in the museum of photography, and walk in the arboretum at the outskirts of the city. In the past, there was an ancient settlement on the site of modern Kecskemet. Mongols invaded Hungarian lands in the 13th century and completely defeated local people. Despite big losses and much damage, the settlement recovered quickly. A beneficial location at the crossing of trading routes helped the town. At the end of the 40s of the 14th century, King Louis I of Hungary officially gave Kecskemet a town status. At the edge of the 16th-17th centuries, the Ottomans were rulers in the region. As Kecskemet paid taxes directly to the pasha in Buda, the town enjoyed a special status and no one had a right to plunder and damage it. Cattle breeding became very popular in the neighborhoods of Kecskemet in the 18th century. However, gardening and vine-growing became the major occupations of local people a century later. Kecskemet was getting richer, turning into the main center of trade in the region at the end of the 19th century. World War II didn’t bring many disasters to the city, and so many new factories appeared in Kecskemet … Read further