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Churches & monasteries
Nowy Targ
The wooden Church of the Holy Trinity and St Anthony the Abbot in Łopuszna (Nowy Targ municipality) is a late-Gothic building from the last decade of the 15th century, consecrated in 1504. It stands by the Dunajec river, where the Czerwonk…
Churches & monasteries
Nowy Targ
Inside St Catherine's Church hangs a Latin inscription, "Fundata a Casimiro Magno Anno Domini 1346" – founded by King Casimir the Great in the year 1346. The brick chancel and the stone holy-water stoups by the entrances survive from that…
Other
Nowy Targ
Pensjonat Pstrąg in Łopuszna, on the road from Nowy Targ to Krościenko, is the place to go if you want fresh fish in the Podhale region rather than smoked sheep's cheese. The restaurant's speciality is trout from its own farm – the owners…
Old towns & squares
Nowy Targ
Nowy Targ Market Square is a 138 × 110 m rectangle – about 1.5 ha – a square built to suit a town founded for trade. It was laid out in 1346, when the town received its charter, and at its centre stands a 19th-century town hall with a cloc…
Mountains & peaks
Nowy Targ
Turbacz (say "TOOR-bach"), at 1,310 m, is the highest peak of the Gorce Mountains in southern Poland and a classic day hike above the town of Nowy Targ. Just below the summit stands a large stone mountain hut, and the meadows around it off…