Nowy Sącz

The Dom Gotycki is now home to the Muzeum Okręgowe w Nowym Sączu. A city walking route starts at the town hall in the market square and passes the Basilica of Saint Margaret and the remains of the city walls. The Sądecki Ethnographic Park focuses on wooden architecture and the traditional folk culture of several local and ethnic groups. Galician Town is a reconstruction of a small-town complex, with a small market square and a row of around a dozen houses.

Other walks focus on specific themes. The Nowy Sącz Ice Cream Trail lets you explore the city while sampling its ice cream specialties. A city walk along the Nowy Sącz graffiti and street art trail draws attention to graffiti and street art. If you are interested in the city’s different historical and cultural connections, you can also explore the Ecumenical Pilgrim Route, which leads through places important to Poles, Jews, Roma, Germans, and Lemkos.

The Dom Gotycki is now home to the Muzeum Okręgowe w Nowym Sączu. The historic building and its current role as a museum offer culture enthusiasts a specific reason to visit the city. The Sądecki Ethnographic Park offers a different perspective. It focuses on wooden architecture and the traditional folk culture of the local ethnographic groups of Lachy, Pogórzans, and Górale Sądeckie, as well as the culture of the ethnic groups of Lemkos, Germans, and Roma.

The park regularly and occasionally hosts demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, workshops in regional handicrafts, and presentations of regional cuisine. The topics range from craft techniques to culinary traditions. Galician Town has a photography studio, a watchmaker’s workshop, and a pottery workshop. Together with the small market square and the row of around a dozen houses, these workshops bring different elements of the reconstructed small-town complex to life.

There is also a connection with nature within the city: a natural beaver habitat lies in a forest in the Dąbrówka district. It offers a subject for photography in different seasons. This adds a different perspective on Nowy Sącz to the cultural walks, without conflating the natural site with the city routes.

Which experiences you focus on depends on your interests: you can explore historic sites on a city walk, wooden architecture and folk culture at the Sądecki Ethnographic Park, or nature photography in Dąbrówka. For more destinations to compare, you can also find Grybow, Żeleźnikowa Wielka, Krynica-Zdrój, Brzyna, Muszyna, Zawadka, Zubrzyk and Jazowsko.

Where does the city walking route begin?

It begins at the town hall in the market square of Nowy Sącz.

Which cultures does the Sądecki Ethnographic Park present?

It presents wooden architecture and the traditional folk culture of local ethnographic groups, as well as that of the Lemkos, Germans, and Roma.

What can you experience on the Nowy Sącz Ice Cream Trail?

The walk combines exploring the city with sampling its ice cream specialties.

For the overview of the wider region: Nowy Sącz.