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Józefów
Place in Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Józefów

Józefów is a town in east-central Poland, located in Masovian Voivodeship, in Otwock County, in the Warsaw metropolitan area.

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Located on a picturesque confluence of Vistula and Świder rivers, it is home to one landscape reserve and three natural reservation zones. As of 2006 it had 18,157 inhabitants.

Get in

Getting to Józefów

The train station of Józefów is about 3 kilometers away from the town center so it does not make a good option. A better option is to take a bus from Biłgoraj or Zamość. From Biłgoraj these buses run frequently.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Synagogue

    Built at the end of the 18th century and devastated by the Nazi-Germans during the Second World War, this synagogue got rebuilt in the 80s of the previous century to house a public library.

  2. 02
    Kirkut

    Very close to the quarries you can find the former Jewish cemetery, also called the Kirkut.

  3. 03
    Quarries

    South of the town are some abandoned stone quarries that are open to the visitors.

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