Baranów Sandomierski

Infobox Settlement
name = Baranów Sandomierski

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image_caption = Castle in Baranów Sandomierski
image_shield = POL Baranów Sandomierski COA.svg
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pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Subcarpathian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Tarnobrzeg
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Baranów Sandomierski
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Mirosław Stanisław Pluta
area_total_km2 = 9.17
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 1453
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 50 | latm = 30 | lats = | latNS = N | longd = 21 | longm = 32 | longs = | longEW = E
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 39-450
blank_name = Car plates
website = http://www.baranowsandomierski.pl/

Baranów Sandomierski [IPA-pl|b|a|'|r|a|n|u|f|-|s|a|n|d|o|'|m|j|e|r|sIPA-pl|k|i] is a small town in southern Poland, in the Subcarpathian Voivodship, Tarnobrzeg County on the Vistula River, with 1,518 inhabitants (2004).

Castle

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.

ee also

List of cities in Poland