Key Projects

Revival of public spaces and parks

More than 70 public spaces will be revived during the preparations for the Pécs2010 European Capital of Culture programme, including the following: the entire city centre of Pécs, the central sections of suburban city quarters – Uránváros, Meszes, Kertváros – as well as the suburban Budai Quarter on the east of the city centre and the Tettye Quarter. The planned revival works focus on creating a link among the different planned investments and on establishing a unified and attractive image for the city. The central component of the project is to give public spaces a new community and cultural function that can facilitate growth in international and domestic tourism as an attraction and can also host several outdoor cultural events in the 2010 cultural season. The pavement of public spaces, street objects and green areas in the city will be renewed, and new, high quality recreation centres will be established by bringing underground waters to the surface and presenting them in an attractive, true-life fashion.

Main criteria of transformation:

• minimise traffic
• manage pedestrian and bicycle traffic in a practical, safe and barrier-free way – removing barriers
• provide proper spaces for holding smaller or even large-scale events, opportunities for recreation, entertainment and learning – for any old or new form of city life
• designate sites that are suitable for permanent and temporary catering, commercial and other functions
• increase the amount of green spaces

Construction works started in case of all public squares within the framework of the programme and handovers start from the fall of 2009.