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- The Quintessential Charming Old Town. Tarnów’s historical centre is one of the most well-preserved and picturesque in Poland, living up to every imagined ideal of the quintessential European Old Town.
- Rich Jewish & Romani Heritage. For centuries Tarnów was a multicultural centre where Polish, Hungarian, Jewish and Romani cultural traditions peacefully coexisted and even overlapped.
- Wonderful Wooden Architecture. If you’re interested in the Małopolska Wooden Architecture Trail, but aren’t up for the long, wild drives around the countryside, look no further than Tarnów.
- Top Tipples: Tarninówka, Trzech Kumpli, Polish Wine Country. Although Tarnów’s gastronomy and nightlife scenes may not reach the heights of Kraków, what the city does have in spades is signature drinks, including its own flavoured vodka, one of Poland’s top craft beer brands, and some of the country’s best wines.
Since 1931 the City Hall is a museum. Inside we can see unique collection of Sarmatian portraits from the XVII-XVIII century, one of the most precious set of porcelain in Poland, arms and weapons containing an original hussarian lance (one of three still intact in the country), and many more.
On the Main Square the impressive architecture, the medieval city plan, the oldest tenement house dating back to the XVI century, the City Hall and the Museum of the History of Tarnów and Region . Moving on to the West, we can see the Cathedral, the Diocesan Museum and Karzimierz Square.
Today the town hall has been preserved in the Renaissance style of the mid 16th century. The building contains many elements from earlier Gothic buildings, among others the lower, quadrangular side of tower, the walls in today’s east bay, the old entrance portal and the cellars.
Tarnów's arresting Gothic city hall, which draws all eyes in the Rynek, dates in its earliest parts to the 15th century. Given a later Renaissance makeover and renovated again in the 19th century, it retains its 16th-century clock, one of Poland's oldest working examples.
Tarnów is a city, located in Eastern Lesser Poland. Its hundreds years of tradition as a private city, then as county city resulted in today’s access to goods other medium cities have and provide. The antique buildings at the Main Square along with Renaissance City Hall bear signs of the Middle Ages.
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May 6, 2022 · Market Square & Town Hall. The centre of the city’s social life and business trade since early times, Tarnów’s market square was conceived in the early 14th century when it was laid out on a sandy hill surrounded by a lower loop of city walls and defensive towers.
