Nowy Targ
Nowy Targ is a town in southern Poland, in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.

Nowy Targ is a town in southern Poland, in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It is located in the Orava-Nowy Targ Basin at the foot of the Gorce Mountains, at the confluence of the Czarny Dunajec and the Biały Dunajec. It is the seat of the Nowy Targ County and the rural Gmina Nowy Targ, as well as the Tatra Euroregion.
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Worth seeing in and around Nowy Targ
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Sanctuary of Our Lady of Ludźmierz
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Ludźmierz in Ludźmierz, Poland is home to Our Lady of Ludźmierz, known as the Shepherdess of Podhale or in Polish Gaździna Podhala. The cult of Our Lady of Ludźmierz is strongly identified with the Góral people who live in the surrounding Tatra Mountains.
2.4 km · church building in gmina Nowy Targ, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland · Wikipedia - 02Market Square, Nowy Targ
The Market Square in Nowy Targ is located in the center of the town. It was laid out for the first time in 1346, when the city was founded.
2 km · square in Nowy Targ, Poland · Wikipedia - 03Podhale State Higher Vocational School in Nowy Targ
University of Applied Sciences in Nowy Targ ) is a public vocational university in Nowy Targ, Poland. Over 90% of students at ANS come from Podhale, Spiš and Orava.
3.3 km · state vocational university in Nowy Targ, Poland · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01St. Catherine Church, Kościelna
- 02St. Anne Church, Zacisze
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Things to do
Podhale Nowy Targ Ice Hockey Team (Podhale Nowy Targ), Parkowa 14 34-400 Nowy Targ,. Podhale Nowy Targ is a Polish ice hockey club based in Nowy Targ. They play in the Polska Hokej Liga. They have won 19 major championships and their biggest success came in the 2003/04 season when they won the European Interliga Championships.
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Where to eat
The culinary landscape in Nowy Targ provides a rich, hearty experience designed to fuel hikers, celebrating traditional highlander recipes alongside a famous local dessert. Traditional ice cream (Lody Nowotarskie): A legendary sweet staple. Local ice cream parlors surrounding the main square have prepared fresh, artisanal ice cream using secret, multi-generational family dairy recipes since the mid-20th century.
- 01Restauracja Absynt
Rynek 9 (on the main market square promenade),.
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Getting to Nowy Targ
- Airports
- Kraków John Paul II (KRK), 70 km · Katowice Wojciech Korfanty (KTW), 131 km · Leoš Janáček Ostrava (OSR), 140 km
- Stations
- Nowy Targ airfield, 2.5 km · Nowy Targ train station, 700 m
- Balice → Nowy Targ70 km · quickest by road, 1h 48m · zł21–27
- Katowice → Nowy Targ113 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · zł35–46
- Jasionka → Nowy Targ279 km · quickest by road, 5h 9m · zł85–110
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No local-transport research exists yet for Nowy Targ
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nowy Targ. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundLocal minibuses: Private and municipal minibuses queue continuously near the rail and bus terminals, pliant fixed routes tracking to adjacent mountain hiking trails and village hubs for highly inexpensive fares.
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