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Tarnów
City in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Tarnów

Tarnów is a city in southeastern Poland with 105,922 inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of 269,000 inhabitants.

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The city is situated in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship. It is a major rail junction, located on the strategic east–west connection from Lviv to Kraków, and two additional lines, one of which links the city with the Slovak border.

Get in

Getting to Tarnów

Trains from Kraków run every hour or so, cost around 20 zł and take a little more than one hour. Trains from Nowy Sącz take around one hour and 45 minutes. Tickets cost around 13,50 zł.

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    Tarnów Railway Station

    Tarnów Railway Station is southwest of the city centre.

See

Worth seeing

Medieval urban layout of Old Town with tenement houses and the Main Square with 14th century Gothic/Renaissance City Hall in the middle.

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    Half-Bastion

    Remains of the defensive walls and two fortified towers.

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    Bimah

    Remains of the old synagogue.

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    Tarnów Cathedral

    However, it has been said that you can talk to the rector about accompanying the janitor to the tower.

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    Holy Trinity Church
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    Bernadine Abbey Complex

    The Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive cost 300,000 men their lives.

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    World War I Cemetery

    200 – Tarnów-Chyszów.

Do

Things to do

There are several parks and two cinemas.

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    Kino Marzenie

    Staszica 4,.

Eat

Where to eat

Most restaurants are on ul. Krakowska and in the Old Town.

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