Nowy Sącz

Nowy Sącz - a city with poviat rights in the Małopolskie voivodeship, the seat of the Nowy Sącz poviat. Third in terms of the number of inhabitants and the fifth largest city in terms of area in the Lesser Poland voivodeship and the largest city of Beskid Sądecki.

Nowy Sącz was located on November 8, 1292 by King Wacław II. The city owed its rapid development to numerous privileges and its location on the trade route to Hungary. In the 14th century, during the reign of Kazimierz Wielki, a castle and defensive walls were built. Numerous meetings of Polish rulers with the rulers of other nations took place in the Sącz Castle. In 1409, King Władysław Jagiełło and the Lithuanian prince Witold laid plans for war with the Teutonic Order here.

On December 13, 1655, the Sącz townspeople, under the command of the Wąsowicz brothers and with the support of the units of Gabriel Wojniłłowicz, liberated the city from the Swedish invaders. Thus, the Polish nation's uprising against the invaders from the north began. The retreat of the Swedes from under Jasna Góra began 13 days after that fact.

In 1889, Nowy Sącz became an urban commune. In 1912, as one of the first cities in Poland, its own power plant was built in record time. On March 11, electric lamps were lit for the first time.

During the First World War, in the years 1914-1915, the city was temporarily occupied by the Russians, then it was again occupied by the troops of the central states. He was liberated in 1918 and returned to the reborn Commonwealth. October 31, 1918 in Nowy Sącz, for the first time in independent Poland, the orchestra officially played Mazurek Dąbrowskiego, which later became the national anthem.

On September 6, 1939, Nowy Sącz was occupied by German troops. During the German occupation, through Nowy Sącz, they led the routes of transferring soldiers to Hungary to the Polish army organized in France and then of England. On January 20, 1945, after three days of fighting, units of the 38th Army of the 4th Ukrainian Front entered the city.

From January 1, 1999, Nowy Sącz is a town poviat, being at the same time the seat of the Nowy Sącz poviat.

Monuments in a Nowy Sącz:

• Town Hall - a building constituting the heart of the city, the seat of the authorities of Nowy Sącz. The current shape of the city hall was obtained during the reconstruction after a fire at the end of the 19th century. It stands in the middle of the market - the central square of the city, which has an area of ​​19,200 m²
• Basilica of Saint. Margaret
• Church St. Rocha - the parish existed at the time of the priest Jan Długosz, before 1513
• Church St. Helen - unknown year of construction, mentioned in the archives of the Chapter of the Wawel Cathedral already in 1596
• Church Sacred Heart of Jesus
• Church of St. Lawrence
• Church St. Ducha and the Monastery of the Jesuits - from the foundation of Władysław Jagiełło erected in 1410
• Church St. Kazimierz
• Monastery and Church of the Piarist Region - construction on the initiative of the Poor Clares of St. Sophia before 1610

• "White Monastery" - Monastery of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Shrine "Szwedzka" pw. St. The brand from 1771
• Shrine pw. St. John of Nepomuk from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries (bridgehead over Kamienica)
• Shrine pw. St. Anna from the 17th century (at Lwowska Street)
• Synagogue - built in 1746
• Chasidic synagogue Bajs Nusn from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
• The urban layout of the Old Town
• Defensive walls of the city of Nowy Sącz
• The Royal Castle in Nowy Sącz (XIV, XVII century) - ruins, with preserved fragment of city fortifications
• Gothic House - the seat of the District Museum in Nowy Sącz
• Renaissance tenement house Lubomirski - today Public Library
• Sądecki Ethnographic Park - is a regional museum, which presents the folk culture of the Sącz region
• Art Nouveau Railway Station 
• The nineteenth-century building of the Primary School Władysława Jagiełło 
• Monument to Władysław Jagiełło from 1910
• Monuments of martyrdom
• and many others