Mezőhegyes is a town in Békés county, in the Southern Great Plain region of south-east Hungary.

The Austrian Imperial and Hungarian Royal Apostolic Stud was founded in late 1784 in Mezőhegyes by Emperor Joseph II.

It was here that the Nonius, later on the Gidan, the Furioso and the North Star types of horses and the Mezőhegyes English full blood were bred.

The most significant event here is the Mezőhegyes International Mare and Stallion Competition which is organized each June.

A member school of Harruckern János Public Educational Institute can be found in Mezőhegyes where marketable and qualitative trades are taught based on the area's agrarian traditions: agricultural mechanic, welder and brick-layer, and for girls: women's dressmaker, social worker and guesthouse and rural host, building on equestrian traditions: how to break in horses, blacksmith and tour leader.