Things to do in Nowy Sącz
Nowy Sącz is one of the oldest towns in Lesser Poland: a large market square with the town hall, next to which spreads the Sącz Ethnographic Park — one of Poland's largest open-air museums — with the recreated Galician Small Town. It combines well with a trip to nearby Stary Sącz and the Sącz Beskids.
Map of attractions in Nowy Sącz
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All attractions (7)
Hidden gemCastles
Nowy Sącz Royal Castle
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…
Hidden gemChurches & monasteries
Basilica of St Margaret in Nowy Sącz
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
Holy Spirit Church in Nowy Sącz
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
Galician Town in Nowy Sącz (Miasteczko Galicyjskie)
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
Museum of the Sącz Region in Nowy Sącz
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
Main Market Square in Nowy Sącz
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…
Free entry
Landmarks
Nowy Sącz Synagogue
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…