Kecskemét in the Great Hungarian Plain

16 April 2015 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: General Reading Time:  7 minutes

Town Hall Square © Zairon/cc-by-sa-3.0

Town Hall Square © Zairon/cc-by-sa-3.0

Kecskemét is a city in the central part of Hungary. It is the 8th largest city in the country, and the county seat of Bács-Kiskun. Kecskemét lies halfway between the capital Budapest and the country’s third-largest city, Szeged, 86 kilometers (53 miles) from both of them and almost equal distance from the two big rivers of the country, the Danube and the Tisza. It is the northern of two centers of the Hungarian Southern Great Plain region; the southern center is Szeged, the seat of Csongrád county.   read more…

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