One of the most prominent buildings of Kecskemet Main Square, the Ornamented Palace (
Cifra Palota) was designed by Geza Markus in Art Nouveau (Secession) style. It was originally intended to be a town house, with stores on the ground floor, and apartments and the Merchants' Casino, upstairs.
Today it houses the paintings of the Kecskemet Gallery, a valuable collection of 19th and 20th century art.
The roof tiles and Pyrogranite ornaments of the Ornamented Palace were
designed and made by the renowned Zsolnay factory, and its green windows are immortalized in a Hungarian children's song, in which one flower serenades the other, to convince her to come outside:
Cifra palota, zöld az ablaka,
Gyere ki, te tubarózsa, vár a viola.
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Open House at the Zsolnay Factory
The Zsolnay ceramics factory is the manufacturer of some of the most beautiful and innovative artistic products of fine china and ceramics.
On
June 23, 2007, between 9.00 am and 1.00 pm, it opens its gates for visitors to take a guided tour of the factory, attend a workshop held by the hand-painters, and then try their artistic skills in producing a Zsolnay piece themselves.
Main Square Kecskemet
The Main Square is a green island of serenity in downtown Kecskemet.
Locals and tourists alike enjoy sitting on the benches, watching the kids at play, the teenagers showing off their bicycle and skateboard skills, or just enjoying the sunshine and
waiting for the 37, famous bells of the Mayor’s Hall to start playing.
Kecskemet
Kecskemet, the
County seat of Bacs-Kiskun County, is located between the rivers Danube and Tisza, midway between Budapest and Szeged. At 100 km from Budapest (Hungary), 300 km north of Belgrade (Serbia) and 250 km North-West of Timisoara (Romania), the city offers
good connection to the rest of Eastern Europe.
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Downtown Kecskemet
