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Nowy Sącz
Nowy Sącz Castle survived the Swedish invasion, fires and a flood, but it was finally destroyed in 1945. Soldiers of the Peasants' Battalions, a Polish resistance force, blew up a German ammunition dump stored inside its walls, and the exp…
Churches & monasteries
Nowy Sącz
At the base of the north tower is a door on which four town trumpeters signed their names in 1617 – today the inscription is known mainly from a drawing by the painter Stanisław Wyspiański. The Basilica of St Margaret in Nowy Sącz is the t…
Churches & monasteries
Nowy Sącz
At the end of the 18th century the Austrian authorities turned this church into a military storehouse, and the altar with its miraculous painting was simply boarded up. Today the Holy Spirit Church on Piotra Skargi Street is one of the mos…
Museums
Nowy Sącz
The Galician Town in Nowy Sącz (Miasteczko Galicyjskie; say NOH-vee SONCH) is an open-air museum that recreates a small market town of Austrian-ruled Galicia around 1900, complete with a cobbled square, a town hall, timber houses and craft…
Museums
Nowy Sącz
The museum in Nowy Sącz has a history worthy of a novel: its collections went on show for the first time in 1938 in the rebuilt castle, and in January 1945 an exploding ammunition dump reduced the castle – and the exhibits – to rubble. Onl…
Old towns & squares
Nowy Sącz
The Main Market Square in Nowy Sącz (Rynek, roughly "NO-vih SONCH") is the historic heart of this southern Polish city and one of the largest market squares in the country – second only to Kraków's in the Małopolska region. A grand, freshl…
Landmarks
Nowy Sącz
The walls of the Nowy Sącz synagogue are only 8 m high – a privilege of 1699 stipulated that it could not rise above the smallest church in town. The Baroque Town Synagogue (Synagoga Grodzka) of 1746 stands at the heart of the former Jewis…