A walk in the town of Kaposvár, situated between Lake Balaton and the Mecsek Hills, take you past a charming variety of buildings, representing almost every style of architecture. The neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic Church of the Blessed Virin Mary was elevated to cathedral status in 1993, when the city was made an Episcopal see. The Hungarian Art Nouveau style Town Hall  with its colourful glass windows, the Zsolnay tiles of Hotel Erzsébet and the twin-turreted building of the Csiky Gergely Theatre are Kaposvár's main highlights. Dorottya House, an 18th-century late-Baroque steward's house used to be scene of Dorottya Balls signalling the start of festivities during the the carnival season.

The beautiful classical building of the former County Hall houses the Rippl-Rónai Museum detailing the history, ethnography and wildlife of the area. The only cinema museum in Hungary is also housed here. Major works of the best-known Hungarian Art Nouveau painter József Rippl-Rónai are on display at a memorial museum (Róma-hegy), named after him, which used to be his home. The Vaszary memorial House holds the works of János Vaszary, another great son of the town. The Vaszary Gallery displays the works of contemporary artists on a continuous basis.
Riding schools and major equestrian events are a magnet for lovers of equestrian sports. Though in ruins, the Kaposszentjakab Benedictine abbey, founded in 1601, is worth the 4-km walk for the panorama view and the events associated with the St. James Summer Nights festivities.

Kaposvár offers several museums for the art dover. In the nearby village of Szenna, a characteristic settlement of the Zselic region rich in traditional rural relics, the village museum acquaints visitors with the folk architecture of the region.

Mohács

A port on the Southern Danube, the town is the scene of Hungary's most spectacular folk tradition called 'busójárás', originally devised to frighten off the Turks, now a merry carnival during which participants dressed in rags and wearing grotesque masks say farewell to winter and welcome the spring.

Most Hungarians associate the name Mohács with the 1526 battle bearing its name, in which the Hungarian army suffered a devastating defeat at the hands of the Ottoman Turks. It was the decisive Battle of Mohács on 29 August 1526, the bleakest day in Hungarian history, in which 20,000 soldiers were killed including the 20 years-old Hungarian King Lajos II, which set the stage for 150 years of Ottoman rule over Hungary. Commemorating the 400th anniversary of the fateful battle, a Byzantine memorial church was erected on the main square of the town with proceeds from public donations. The memorial park established on Török (Turkish) Hill along the road to Sátorhely is a reminder of the battle that was fought and lost nearby. The five mass graves explored so far have been marked with painted burial signs with imitation human figures and horses on them as well as wooden headboards.