Zoo

Pecs Zoo & Aquarium-Terrarium is one of the smallest Hungarian zoos. It turned into installed in 1960 within the Mecsek mountain above the city, and became originally known as Mecsek Cultural Park. A now-closed enjoyment park, established in 1961 become also on the site, related to the zoo with the aid of a 570 m light railway. The aquarium-terrarium is become independent from the zoo, within the internal town located within the mediaeval cellar device. It become constructed in 1985, to have fun the twenty fifth anniversary of the zoo.

The zoo has about one hundred,000 traffic yearly. The zoo become built in 1959-1961, with labour contributed by means of excessive school and university college students, as well as other labourers of numerous types thru the socialist voluntary labour scheme. The area changed into chosen to discover the zoo inside the herbal environment of the Mecsek hills, outside the city panorama. Originally, there had been a tiny terrarium and aquarium, and also cougars, lions, tigers, leopard, black panther, Eurasian lynx, bears, and wolves as nicely.