Tarczyn

Infobox Settlement
name = Tarczyn
imagesize = 250px
image_shield = POL Tarczyn COA.svg
pushpin_

pushpin_label_position = bottom
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = POL
subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship
subdivision_name1 = Masovian
subdivision_type2 = County
subdivision_name2 = Piaseczno
subdivision_type3 = Gmina
subdivision_name3 = Tarczyn
leader_title = Mayor
leader_name = Barbara Galicz
established_title3 = Town rights
established_date3 = 1353
area_total_km2 = 5.24
population_as_of = 2006
population_total = 3886
population_density_km2 = auto
timezone = CET
utc_offset = +1
timezone_DST = CEST
utc_offset_DST = +2
latd = 51 | latm = 58 | lats = 43 | latNS = N | longd = 20 | longm = 50 | longs = 1 | longEW = E
elevation_m = 140
postal_code_type = Postal code
postal_code = 05-555
area_code = +48 22
blank_name = Car plates
blank_info = WPI
website = http://tarczyn.pl

Tarczyn [IPA-pl|'|t|a|r|cz|y|n] is a town in Poland, located in Masovian Voivodeship, about 30 km south of Warsaw. There were 3,869 inhabitants living there in 2004. This town became famous for the juices called "TARCZYN" that were made there.

History

Tarczyn’s history reaches back to the 13th century, when a local trading–post and market was established close to the banks of a small river, known today as Tarczynka, thereby deriving its name from this river. Early documented references to the locality include: “Tarczin” (1284), Tarczyno (1303), Tarczyn (1353,1580), Tharczino (1355, 1241), Tarcynum (1634). Tarczyn was first mentioned in 1259. In 1353 the Mazovian Prince Casimir I gave the locality its Magdeburgian Town Charter and financed the founding of St. Nicolas’s church. One of the most famous inhabitants of Tarczyn is renowned Polish war hero Irena Sendler (born 1910), who lived in Tarczyn before World War II.

Attractions

Tarczyn and its district have a few characteristic places like the forests and brushwoods, the picturesque tracts of woodlands, through which the river Jeziorka wends. Many tourist attractions: Tarczyn’s 16th century church; the wooden church in Rembertow; the rustic, little chapels in Lesna Polana, in Przypki and in Werdun; studs of horses; Organic Farm in Kaweczyn; tourist farm in Przypki; past verdant, thick forests to the western part of the district; the Manor House at Many, where "Zlotopolscy" daytime soap opera was filmed (with English subtitles, viewable on satellite TV).

Transportation

Tarczyn is located along the international "E77" Euro-route (Cracow–Warsaw–Gdansk), in the southern part of the Mazowieckie (Mazovian) Province, in Piaseczno County, near Warsaw and its Frederic Chopin Airport.

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