Kecskemét - Townscape

Kecskemét has all the characteristics of a market town on the Hungarian Plain: scattered around the periphery of the town are a number of individual farmsteads, which give way to rustic dwellings with fruit gardens (and now unfortunately some sad-looking satellite estates too) as one gets nearer to the town center. The atmosphere in the medieval quarters, with their typical cobbled streets lined with acacia trees, is typical of that usually found in a small town and only the center itself is a reminder of Kecskemét's size. The main places of interest will be found within a comparatively small compass and in one of the three large squares, Kossuth tér, Szabadság tér and Katona József tér.