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Kerska Church – The Church of Saint Rokus  was built  in 1896, in  Neo-Gothic style.

Ker village is the south part of the city, a high balk above the old Gat Lake and the low dale of Mlaka. The name was awarded, most likely, after the Ker tribe that has taken up its place here at the time when the Hungarians came to these parts. Renewing the donation of his mother, King Bela III granted Ker to the Hospitaller crusaders from Székesfehérvár, in 1113.

Kiš, Danilo  is one of the most prolific  and awarded writer of the region; he was born in Subotica on February 22nd, 1935 to Eduard Kiš- the father, a Hungarian Jew and Milica Dragićević- his mother from Montenegro. Until 1942, he lived with his parents in Novi Sad, where he attended the first grade of elementary school, then he moved to Hungary, his father’s birth place, to finish elementary school and two years of Gymnasium. Following his fathers deportation to Auschwitz, he and the rest of his family were repatriated to Cetinje by the Red Cross. He  lived there all throughout his schooling days. He enrolled at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade in 1954 and in September  1958 he was the first student to graduate from the Department of General Literature Studies. At that time, he was already a published author.
He  published his first work at the age of eighteen, in 1953, and it was followed by many others, such as: „Bašta, pepeo“, „Peščanik“  and other;  then novels  „Rani jadi“, „Grobnica za Borisa Davidoviča“, „Enciklopedija mrtvih“, „Lauta i ožiljci“; as well as, essays  „Po- etika“, „Život i literatura“  and many more.
He is one of the most frequently  translated authors, a winner of the most prestigious national and international literary prizes and  was the associate member of the Serbian Academy . He died in Paris in 1989.

Kolevka – Subotica is a Children and Youth Centre, located at 6, Jaša Ignjatović Street. Taking care of children without parents in Subotica didn’t begin with the opening of the Orphanage in 1903, as we are likely to guess. The official Orphanage has been founded in 1900, however town councilors and women’s associations had been trying to resolve this issue for decades before that. Kolevka-Children and Youth Centre marks May 1st as its day of foundation, a date when the Orphanage in Subotica became independent from Budapest State Orphanage. A new chapter for this Centre begins in the hard post-war times, when the number of abandoned children and orphans rose dramatically. At that time, the centre was given the name Kolevka. Presently, mostly nurses work at Kolevka. The Centre keeps its doors open for everyone who wishes to visit the children or take them home into their family over the weekend, as part of attempts to make their lives at the Centre to be like a life in a real family.

Korzo  the main city promenade. Beautiful facades, mainly depicing the flamboyant style of Hungarian art nouveau, nowadays reconstructed  and in full splendor. Subotica’s Korzo is the cultural and business centre of the city; at one end, one finds the Public Theater; at the other, the Children’s Theater  with banks, cafés, shops in between and with trees all the way through.