SWOT Analysis - Central Europe

urban and private galleries are offering the full, and unique presentation of
the 20th century’s Hungarian art. The National Theatre of Pécs has theatrical,
ballet, musical comedy and opera section as well. Beside the National
Theatre are operating the Croat Theatre the University and the Third Theatre
too, but the student acting has got decennial tradition too. A symphonic
orchestra operating, the concert life is rather significant even in national level.
Pécs is also quite unique as it owns a independent puppet theatre.
The city traditionally characterized by vibrant intellectual life that is home to,
inter alia, the University of Pécs Days, Days of University, the Pécs’ days or the
Pécs National Theatre Festival (PNTF) and the Cinepécs International Film
Festival as well. Here operates country largest university regarding the number
of students, with 31 thousand of them attending the various courses.
In 2010, together with the city of Essen and Istanbul – Pécs is one of Europe's
cultural capitals. The title is awarded to the 2010 year, a number of
investments made possible by the European Union. The Pécs2010 Cultural
Capital of Europe project has four investment priorities: Conference and
Concert Centre, South-Transdanubian Regional Library, Knowledge Centre,
and the Zsolnay Cultural Quarter. They also complement the revitalization of
public spaces and parks.
There are three cinemas now in Pécs. The Apolló movie theatre in the
downtown is the permanent cinema in the city. Here one usually project art
films in two separate halls. The second oldest cinema is the Urania, which was
the first cinema in the country built in Bauhaus style. The cinema is the
member of the ArtMovie-network and the Europa Cinemas supports it as well.
There is a multiplex movie in the city, which can be found in the Pécs Plaza
the so-called Cinema City. There they project commercial type films in ten
different halls.
The first concert hall of the city, which bears the name of Zoltán Kodály, will
be opened at the 16 th of December 2010. The conference and concert hall is