Arriving in Pécs after a cold weather front, it is impossible to resist the temptation to climb to the lookout tower on Misina Peak outlined sharply against a blinding blue sky.

Looking around there is a matchless panorama opening up around. Towards the east stretches the green ribbon of the Danube with Mohács island and the Gemenc Forest.

To the south, the line of the gallery forests fringing the Dráva loom up. To the west, one can follow the course of the Dráva further, with the paralleled ridges of the South Zala Hills looming up in the foggy distance. On turning to the north, the visitor will see genuine wonders. Behind the almost regularly articulated ridges of Outer Somogy show up the bluish crests of Tihany Peninsula and the Balaton Highlands. The sharp-sighted may even glimpse the beautiful basalt-capped peaks of the Badacsony and the Gulács, in the Tapolca Basin, with the water surface of lake Balaton gleaming in the distance.

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.

In Tolna County, the one-time vicar of Szekszárd, Mór Wosinszky, laid out the foundations of the archaeological collection which was housed in 1902 in a neo-Renaissance mansion at Szekszárd. It now bears the name of the founder and is the museum centre of the town. In the Mihály Babits Memorial House, where the great 20th-century poet was born, relics of the literary history connected with the town are on display. The County Hall gives home to the Ferenc Liszt Memorial Exhibition and a collection of Eszter Matthioni's paintings and painted stones. The old railway station of Paks has been turned into a railway museum. In the Paks Gallery visitors can see a survey of the present years of modern art. Castle museums have been furnished out at Dunaföldvár, Simontornya and Ozora. The Völgység Museum at Bonyhád  houses a collection of local history. Ethnographic and historical collections are on display in fine examples of local architecture at Györköny, Kölesd, Pélfa, Decs, Sióagárd, Szakály.

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