A Day in Pecs

Yesterday I spent the day in Pecs, Hungary with Charlotte. It was nice, relaxing day, though the weather could have been a little better. Let's see, to start we visited a cute park:




Then we visited a building that used to be a post office, but the highlight of the building is the beautiful roof, recommended for us to see by Charlotte's mother.


Then we walked down the Citrom, or "Lemon" Street







Another pretty roof :)

The square of the synagogue

Pecs has a famous porcelain exhibit and is known for the awesomely cool looking green porcelain


In the main square there was  huge horse statue! It was a part of some exhibit or another, but we thought it was just interesting to have a massive horse statue sitting off center in the main square.


After lunch, we visited the porcelain museum:




Next we visited a basilica,





The Decepticons are here. They know our secrets.


Statue of famous composer Liszt Ferenc


Fortune cookie/paper sculpture art?




There's not a good reason for this picture.

Like I said, a slow, relaxing day. Not a ton of history and rushing around. Pecs was nice. It felt open and clean and was actually quite pretty. It was a good way to end the week.

     -Natalie

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