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Tarnobrzeg
City county in Subcarpathian Voivodeship, Poland

Tarnobrzeg

Tarnobrzeg is a city in south-eastern Poland, on the east bank of the river Vistula, with 49,419 inhabitants, as of 31 December 2009.

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Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship since 1999, it had previously been the capital of Tarnobrzeg Voivodeship (1975–1998). Tarnobrzeg lies in the Sandomierz Basin, and directly borders the town of Sandomierz, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship. Its history dates back to the year 1593, when it was granted Magdeburg rights, and belonged to the Tarnowski family. For centuries Tarnobrzeg remained a small town, which did not develop until the post-World War II period, when it became center of an industrial area, based on rich sulfur deposits.

Get in

Getting to Tarnobrzeg

You can get in by train Gorzów Wielkopolski-Zamość. There are buses from Warsaw, Lublin, Gdańsk, and Kraków.

See

Worth seeing

  1. 01
    Dzików Castle
  2. 02
    Historical Museum of Tarnobrzeg
Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Lake Tarnobrzeg

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Jacek Halicki (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.