Pécs) is the fourth largest city of Hungary, located in the south-west of the country. It is the administrative and economical centre of Baranya county.
Pécs has been selected to be the European capital of Culture in 2010 sharing the title together with Essen and Istanbul. The city's motto will be: "The Borderless city".
The earliest name for the territory was its Roman name of Sopianæ. The name possibly comes from the plural of the Celtic sop meaning marsh. Contrary to the popular belief, the name did not signify a single city, and there are no traces of an encircling wall from the Roman era.
The medieval city was first mentioned in 871 under the name Quinque Basilicae ("five cathedrals".) The name refers to the fact that when constructing the churches of the city, the builders used material from five old Christian chapels. In later Latin documents the city was mentioned as Quinque Ecclesiae ("five churches", a name identical in meaning to the German name Fünfkirchen and to the Slovak name Päťkostolie.)
The name Pécs appears in documents in 1235 in the word Pechyut (with modern spelling: pécsi út, means "road to/from Pécs"). The name Pécs is of Slavic origin and means phonetically "five" or "furnace" in the Slavic languages (There is a town in Kosovo with similar name – Peć). It is thought that the name of another Hungarian city, Pest (today part of Budapest), has the same origin. There is another theory that name was coined from the name of a Turkish explorer, Pechevy, who described the city in detail.

Buildings

• Magasház