the Habsburgs, led by Ottinger. In July 1849, due to the political situation, Cegléd was the seat of the Hungarian revolutionary government for a week. The golden age of the town were the last years of the 19th and the first ones of the 20th century. The town went through a quick urbanisation, got a secondary school and many important public facilities were built. Cegléd also saw the organisation of the first-ever Hungarian collective farm in 1902 (based on free will back then). On 29 August 1944, the Cegléd marshalling yard was bombed by 15th AF / 301st BG, which caused damage to the town. However, parks and streets were fairly quickly rebuilt, thanks to the inhabitants. Jews settled in Cegléd in the first half of the 19th Century, forming a Neologist congregation in 1869 and reaching a peak in 1910. A Jewish school was in operation until the Holocaust and a Synagogue was built in 1905. In 1941 all men in the community were sent to forced labor camps in Ukraine where most died. 659 Jews remained. They were deported to Auschwitz after being expelled to Kecskemet in June 1944. In 1946 150 survivors reestablished the community. During the 1956 revolution, for a couple of days Cegléd was governed by revolutionary forces, organised mainly by pupils of the local Kossuth Lajos Secondary School. During the Communist regime, agriculture and light industry were made priorities, and after the fall of the regime, these features started to decline, and many of the inhabitants moved to bigger towns. Today, however, the town seems to have refound itself on the base of tourism and its thermal water. Geography Cegléd is situated between the Duna and Tisza rivers, north of Kiskunság, at the western part of the Great Hungarian Plain. Due to its location, it is often called "the gate of the Great Plain". A shoulder of the Gödöllő hills runs along the western part of the town. The Gerje stream crosses the southern part of Cegléd. The town is surrounded by farmland producing mostly fruit (plums, cherries and apricot) and vegetables (yellow peppers) and has several outskirts with scattered cottages. Places of interest One of the known features of Cegléd is its richness in thermal water. At the outskirts of the town, there is a thermal spa. Best Western Hotel Aquarell Cegled is located near the city's Thermal Bath and Aquapark. Locals traditionally