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Churches & monasteries
Tarnów
Tarnów Cathedral – the Cathedral Basilica of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary – is the centerpiece of Tarnów's Old Town and home to some of the finest Renaissance tomb sculpture in Central Europe. Its red-brick bulk and 72-meter tow…
Landmarks
Tarnów
The original gate of Tarnów's Jewish cemetery, through which thousands of Jews passed during the Holocaust, has been held since 1991 by the Holocaust Museum in the United States — a copy stands in its place. Behind it lies one of the oldes…
Museums
Tarnów
Your guide to Tarnów's history here is an organ grinder, and the route through the rooms follows a perforated barrel-organ strip packed with curiosities. The Museum of the History of Tarnów and the Region, a branch of the Tarnów Regional M…
Old towns & squares
Tarnów
Tarnów Market Square (Tarnów is pronounced roughly "TAR-noof") is the heart of a city that Poles like to call the "pearl of the Renaissance." Laid out in 1330, the square is lined with arcaded and gabled townhouses and centered on a striki…
Historic sites
Tarnów
The Old Cemetery in Tarnów (Stary Cmentarz, once called the Zabłocie Cemetery) is one of the oldest surviving cemeteries in Poland — older than Warsaw's famous Powązki. Spread over less than four hectares in the south of this Renaissance t…