A pop recovered in favourable natural environment at the foot of the Gerecse mountain range, in Kisalföld eastern corner. The XIX. from a century his central position- a road drives from eleven settlements into the city it was named after him the surrounding one parishes including Tatai-medencének. Place inhabited by a man was started because of the oldest times.
On the Arpad house rulers' time pop royal possession. The slow decay of the castle Mátyás (1458-1490) a king stopped it, when in 1467 changed from Rozgonyi. The Turkishs occupied a pop's city in 1543. The host exchanged at the time of the one hundred and forty-five year Turkish rules nine times, and the castle was until altogether sixteen years on a Turkish hand.
First four Esterházy in a count's life, between 1727-1811, the administration centre of the lordship was not only a pop, but Komárom county one developed into his rich market town in buildings with a most beautiful, baroque style.
Pop it was not only over in decades with his waters, his landscape garden, with his shady parks, his renewed buildings, his ordered roads, turned into remarkable one with his Olimpic training camp, but with his museums, his scientific discussions, his constant programs (water, music, Virág festival; Tatai Sokadalom; Barokk Fesztivál; open-air games; autumn big fishery) too, which ones they enhanced the city's reputation.


































