The Rough Guide to Poland by Rough Guides

Author:Rough Guides
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Travel, Poland
Publisher: Apa Publications
Published: 2018-09-18T10:10:15+00:00

Regional Museum

ul. Lwowska 3 • Tues–Thurs 9.30am–3pm, Fri 9am–5pm, Sat–Sun 9am–4pm • 8zł; free on Sat • 18 443 7708, muzeum.sacz.pl

Housed in the sixteenth-century Canonical House, Nowy Sącz’s regional museum (Muzeum Okręgowe) contains a first-rate display of icons gathered from village churches throughout the region. The collection is not as extensive as that in Sanok but amply demonstrates the distinctive regional style of icon painting, and includes some wonderful examples of the Hodigitria (Holy Virgin and Child) theme popular in Uniate iconography, as well as a seventeenth-century composite iconostasis assembled from different village churches. There’s plenty of folk art on show, too, including some Christus Frasobliwy sculptures, showing a seated Christ propping his mournful face on one hand.

The former synagogue and around

ul. Berka Joselewicza 12 • Wed & Thurs 10am–3pm, Fri 10am–5.30pm, Sat & Sun 9am–2.30pm • 5zł

The seventeenth-century former synagogue where the popular nineteenth-century tzaddik Chaim Ben Halberstam had his base – before his better-known son moved to Bobowa – is located in the former Jewish quarter north of the Rynek. It houses a contemporary art gallery and a small photo exhibition of local Jewish life. The surrounding area was the location of the wartime ghetto, liquidated in August 1942 when its residents were either shot or transported to Bełżec extermination camp.

The skansen

Northern entrance for individual tourists at ul. Wienawy-Długoszewskiego, about 3.5km east of town; southern entrance for hourly Polish-language guided tours (price of guide is included in regular ticket price) via the Galician Market Town • Tues–Sun: May to mid-Oct 10am–6pm; mid-Oct to April 9am–3pm • 14zł; free on Sat • 18 441 4412, muzeum.sacz.pl • For northern entrance take bus #14 from the train station, bus station or ul. Lwowska, or walk from the centre (45min) or take a taxi (15–20zł)

Nowy Sącz’s extensive skansen (Sądecki Park Etnograficzny) provides a fantastic introduction to Carpathian culture. If you’ve already visited the skansen at Sanok, the buildings in the Lemko and Pogórzanie sections will be familiar. What you won’t have seen before, however, are the fragments of a Carpathian Roma hamlet – realistically situated some distance from the main village – and an assortment of manor houses, including a graceful seventeenth-century specimen from Małopolska, complete with its original interior wall paintings. Other highlights include a comfortable farmstead from nearby Zagorzyn, formerly the property of wealthy peasant Wincenty Myjak, an MP in Vienna from 1911 to 1918; and a nineteenth-century brick granary from Kicznia, with extravagantly carved wooden gables.

Galician Market Town

ul. Lwówska 226, 3km east of town on the road to Gorlice • Tues–Sun: May to mid-Oct 10am–6pm; mid-Oct to April 9am–4pm • Entrance to “town” free; entrance including interiors 7zł; free on Sat • muzeum.sacz.pl • Accessible on foot from the northern end of the skansen; otherwise catch bus #25 or #27

A popular day out for tourists from all over Poland, the Galician Market Town (Miasteczko Galicyjskie) is an attempt to recreate the urban culture of nineteenth-century Galicia (as the Habsburg-controlled corner of southeastern Poland was then known) through a display of old buildings – some of which are restored originals, some of which are replicas.

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