Pécs is a Centre for Architecture, Arts, and Academia

Taking in the public space on Szénchenyi Square.

Pécs has a long history of architecture and architects. Marcel Breuer was born in Pécs in 1902 and his legacy is felt there as is the city’s participation in the Bauhaus. The city has a multi-cultural air about it with influences from the Southern Europe Cultural Zone, which includes Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia as well as a visible Mediterranean feel. Architecture of the city includes modern, post-modern (and deconstructivist) and contemporary styles with traces of medieval times, Turkish rule, and even early Christian settlement accessible by tunnels directly underneath the center of the city (which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site). I had time to enjoy the newly redesigned main pedestrian Szénchenyi Square that is a brilliant design and lively every day of the week. I visited an excellent Bauhaus exhibition as well as a museum dedicated to Victor Vasarely, a cherished pop artist of the sixties and seventies.  I also had a chance to volunteer for an ECOC event in part of the University of Pécs, a 2000-year old university, one of the first in Europe. 

Math Academy. Hungarians are serious mathmeticians.

Trying out a new architecture lounger in the park.

Public Art