Baranów Sandomierski

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Baranów Sandomierski

Castle in Baranów Sandomierski

Coat of arms

Baranów Sandomierski

Coordinates: 50°30′N 21°32′E / 50.5, 21.533

Country

Poland

Government

- Mayor

Mirosław Stanisław Pluta

Area

- Total

9.17 km² (3.5 sq mi)

Population (2006)

- Total

1,453

- Density

158.5/km² (410.4/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

- Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

Postal code

39-450

Car plates

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Website: http://www.baranowsandomierski.pl/

Baranów Sandomierski [baˈranuf sandɔˈmjɛrski] is a small town in southern Poland, in the Subcarpathian Voivodship, Tarnobrzeg County on the Vistula River, with 1,518 inhabitants (2004).

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The town is well-known for its picturesque Renaissance castle / palace built in 1591-1606.

It's know as "little Wawel". This castle is class zero monument. It’s is to believe to be work of a famous architect, Santi Gucci, the court artist of king Sigismund II Augustus. This castle was build around 1591 – 1606 for Rafał and Andrzej Leszczyński. Its style comes from Italian renaissance. By the end of 17th century, the next owners was the Lubomirscy family, who decided to change the residency. They hired Dutch architect, and he added columns on the inside of castle courtyard, on which was a gallery of arts by Giovanni Battista (unfortunately all the art were destroyed in two fires in 1848 and 1898).

Before WWII, around 1500 Jews lived in this town. In 1948, when one of them tried to get back to his home, he was murdered by the people of the town. No Jews live in the town today.