Pécs is the largest city of Transdanubia in Western Hungary; the seat of the South Transdanubian region, and of Baranya County, a university city and a Catholic Episcopal seat. The city is located on the southern slopes of the Mecsek Hills forty km from the rivers Danube and Drava. Although it is at a distance of five hundred kilometres from the Adriatic sea, maybe it is the nearby sea that gives the city and its immediate region a Mediterranean character. The natural environment of Pécs is marked by the Mecsek Hills; the city extends well into the forests of the hills. The once famous viticulture on the southern slopes, to which the name of the indigenous people of Pécs, the word "tüke" (vine) refers, has been driven into the background by now. It has been recorded that Sultan Suliman II called Pécs an earthly paradise, perhaps because at least a dozen streams abounding in water ran across the city. The valleys of these streams shape the basic structure of the city even today. The Orfű Lakes and the dripstone cave of Abaliget are some eight-ten kilometres from Pécs, while twenty-five kilometres to the south, beyond the Villány Hills, one can find the Siklós-Villány wine-country and Harkány, one of the most famous spas of Hungary.
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