A Walk Through Goat Town

We began our day with a guided tour throughout the town of Kecskemet, which when translated means goat. The town is home to around 114 thousand people who come from a wide range of religious backgrounds. One big characteristic of this town in the vast variety of religious denominations and the churches that they belong too. We got the chance to enter into one of the churches and get a look at the styles that were used. The church was made up of a rock material that was made to resemble lime stone. This material was used a lot in churches and town buildings because lime stone was not a common material in the surrounding area for people to use.

The second building we entered was the Kecskemet city hall, which was built in 1893. The styles of architecture used in this building resemble traits of Renaisance and Baroque. In the main room of the building featured portaits of beautiful depictions of the kings and rulers of Hungary. The city hall is also the place that features bells that ring throughout the day. It is the music that these bells play that Zoltan Koday used as the basis for one of his works.

Throughout the rest of the tour we became more accustomed with the history of Kecskemet as well as looking at many of the different buildings and monuments. One of the more interesting monuments was a structure that sat at the very center of the town showing the names and directions of all the surrounding towns and how far away each was from that point.

We all then spent the rest of the day relaxing and wandering about the town on our own until it was time for our group dinner. The dinner was at a very nice restaurant located in the middle of the town. The three-course meal provided to us was of all Hungarian foods. After dinner, we all went back and prepared for our trip to Budapest, Hungary.