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Town & Commune Office

39-450 Baranow Sandomierski
ul. gen. Leopolda Okulickiego 1
phone/fax +48 15 811 85 81

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http://www.baranowsandomierski.pl

Mayor - mgr Miroslaw Pluta
Vice mayor - mgr inz. Jan Pelczar

 
Characteristics

Baranow Sandomierski commune is located in the Wisla valley, on the right-hand bank of the river, in the north section of the podkarpackie province. It borders communes of: Tarnobrzeg, Nowa Deba, Padew Narodowa, Osiek and Loniow. The Sandomierska Wood grows over 21% of its area. Baranow Sandomierski is counted among the oldest municipal centres not only on the Rzeszów Land but in the whole region of Malopolska. It was granted civic rights in 1354.

At present the commune shows mixed agricultural and industrial characteristics. The biggest production works within its limits is the Net Curtains Factory "WISAN" SA in Skopanie. The commune offers a developed technical infrastructure, abundant reserves of the highly skilled labour force ensuring high quality with comparatively low labour costs. Located within the scope of enterprise zones Euro-Park Mielec and Euro-Park Wislosan of Tarnobrzeg, the commune shows a great potential of turning into an enterprising regional centre of industry not only for the county of Tarnobrzeg, but also for the whole land of Podkarpacie.

 
Investment offers
  • grounds of the enterprise zone located at the reloading station of the Steel and Sulphur Line (a wide-gauge track to the former USSR and Katowice)
  • grounds of former SKR Wola Baranowska
  • grounds of former SKR Suchorzow
  • grounds of former SKR Dymitrow Maly
  • grounds of a former slaughter house in Baranow Sandomierski - grounds at the reservoir "Gaj" in Wola Baranowska
  • numerous grounds suitable for small enterprises of production or services
  • numerous grounds offered for purposes of production, services or tourist industry
  • various grounds offered for purposes of housing development
The town and commune authorities offer to investors creating new workplaces their far-fetched assistance concerning planning, location, infrastructure, preferential property tax rates.
 
 
Tourist attractions
  • Reinessance castle in Baranow Sandomierski referred to as the "Small Wawel" with the adjoining park
  • Baroque church of St John the Baptist's Beheading in Baranow Sandomierski
  • Churches and wayside shrines scattered all over the commune
  • Numerous monuments of nature
  • Beautiful old forests with a well developed system of hiking, cycling and horse riding paths and trails
  • Meadows bordering forests and water
  • Picturesque and unique Wisla Wood with its attractions including: exceptional nature, sole in their kind plants and animals
  • Reclaimed earth bank of the nearby sulphur mine with the most beautiful thicket of rare trees and bushes, numerous ponds abounding in fish, a perfect network of roads and paths, sightseeing points
  • Sports objects: many soccer pitches in the countryside, sports halls, saunas, fitness clubs
  • Old-Polish Thursday Feasts
  • Shows of knightly battle, tournaments of archers
  • Concerts of chamber musie
  • Barbecue gardens
  • Lessons of horse-riding (a pony for children)
  • Chaise and cart rides, sleigh rides in winter
Because of its location Baranow Sandomierski is an ideal base for sightseeing trips all over south-eastern Poland, e.g. to Sandomierz, Lancut, Zamosc, the Salt Mine in Wieliczka, ruins of Krzyztopor castle in Ujazd

 
Hotels and catering
  • suites in the historical interiors of the castle of Baranow Sandomierski
  • rooms and stylish suites in the castle hotel
  • rooms and suites in the inn "Wisla"
  • rooms on agri-tourist farms
  • a well developed network of bistros and restaurants
  • conference rooms provided with latest equipment
  • cosy workshop rooms
  • banquet halls offering nice service and exquisite cuisine

 
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