Mezőkövesd

Understand

Get in

By car you can reach the city by travelling on highway M3 (towards Miskolc), about 100 km from Budapest.

See

  • Matyó Museum - Local history with its attractive handmade textiles
  • Museum of Agriculture
  • Matyó homes, streets with the atmosphere of 19th-century country towns - also called "Hadas" district, meaning that people who used to live here inhabited the area in big family groups.In the ancient cottages local folk artists offer a view of what it is like to be "Matyó". The houses give home to embroiderers, a furniture painter, a glass cutter, a potter and for the children: a gingerbread maker, among other craftsmen.

Further afield:

  • 🌍 Szomolya (12 km from Mezőkövesd). Beehive Stone, Caveflats.

Do

  • Zsóry Thermal Baths, with indoor and outdoor swimming and medicinal pools. The sulphur-rich waters of the medicinal pools have curative properties.

Sleep

  • Balneo Hotel Zsori Thermal & Wellness
  • Rózsa Panzió
  • Csikós Panzió

Go next

  • Eger – town 22 km (14 mi) northwest
  • Füzesabony – town 21 km (13 mi) west
  • Heves – town 41 km (25 mi) west
  • Mezőcsát – town 31 km (19 mi) east
  • Miskolc – city 64 km (40 mi) northeast
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