Kecskemet accommodation, sights, events

This city is famous far and wide due to the Kecskemet apricot brandy, the colourful Art Nouveau buildings decorated with ceramics, and the Kodály method of musical education.
There is a row of famous buildings along the wide, impressive Kossuth Square, crossed by promenades: the tile-roofed Town Hall, a masterpiece of Hungarian Art Nouveau, is considered one of the most attractive municipal buildings because of its colourful flower decorations and the beautiful frescos in its marvellous conference hall. Zoltan Kodaly composed the melody of the chimes that sounds every hour.
The oldest church in the city was built 600 years ago. This is the Franciscan church of St. Nicholas, originally Gothic, with its rich Baroque inside space and the Stations of the Cross in front. Students from all over the world come to the summer training courses of the ""Zoltan Kodaly""Musical Education Institute (1 Kettemplomkoz), to study the musical education methodology of the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly (1882-1967) in his native city.
The Cifrapalota -Fancy Place- (1 Rakoczi Avenue) ornamented with colourful flora patens, is an outstandingly valuable creation of Hungarian Art Nouveau. Inside, the collection of Kecskemet Museums of the Art of Painting contains the works of Hungarians painters of the 19th and 20th centuries. The school and college of the Calvinist church functions in the Art Nouveau-style palace of the New College (1 Kalvin Square). The House of Science and Technology operates in the former synagogue, built in the Romantic Moorish style (2 Rakoczi Street), where authentic plaster replicas of 15 statues by Michelangelo Buonarroti are kept. The Piarist Church and Monastery (1 Jokai Street) shows characteristics of Hungarian Baroque, whilst the Lutheran Church (1 Arany J. Street) demonstrates the features of the Eclectic style. Many unique museums and nationally important collections have found home here. Works of the most significant Hungarian folk artists enrich the collection of the Hungarian Peoples Applied Arts Museum (19/A Serfozo Street).
You can see the largest naive fine arts collections in the country, consisting of approximately 2.500 paintings and statues, in the Museum of Hungarian Naive Artists (11 Gaspar A. Street), and there is also the ""Szorakatenusz"" Toy Museum and Workshop, where you can see more than thousand railway models, children""s toys of the early 20th century, folk toys and children"" s musical instruments. The only photography museum in the country, the Hungarian Museum of Photography (12Katona J. Square) holds approximately 3.000 objects; and the Leskowsky Collection of Instruments exhibits 1.500 musical instruments from all over the world (6/A Zimay Street).