WORTH SEEING The Main Square with a series of 19th and NOWY TARG 20th century city tenement houses. St. Catherine’s Church, the city’s Patron, a friendly city dating back to the 14th century, founded The City Hall located in the main square by king Casimir the Great. Initially is a two-floor, pseudo-classicist building a wooden church, today it represents with a clock tower. It received its th a variety of styles that stem from the present at the half of the 19 century multitude of re-construction periods. when it replaced its wooden version. th The Gothic presbytery from about 1346, On the 7 April 2004 a table com- a brick nave from about 1606, a choir, memorating John Paul II, the honourable Nowy Targ, which is the county capital, a vestry and tower stairs from 1608. citizen of Nowy Targ was founded. is located right in the heart of the vast The church is equipped with mainly baroque elements with later changes. In front of the City Hall one may find Orawsko-Nowotarska valley, between the The City Hall The church adjacent terrain hosts a Rosary Władysław Orkan’s monument who rivers of White and Black Dunajec, at the and Wł. Orkan’s Garden. was the region eulogist. feet of beautiful Gorce. The main city’s St. Catherine’s Church monument advantage is its location; it is here that all roads from Podhale, Spisz and Orawa come The Commemorating The church of St. Anne’s is a larch building PTTK Podhale Musem locate in the Table in the City together. There Slovakian border is in the located on the top of the cemetery hill, City Hall along with the regular exhibition Hall’s facade immediate vicinity of the city. The distance surrounded by old trees. It contains many The city view with Tatra and periodical exhibitions. The Museum from Cracow is 80 km, from monuments from various eras: the main John Paul II obelisk Mountains in the background th owns over 7400 exhibits from the field of about 25 km. The total square area of the altar from the middle 18 century, side located at the airport ethnography, history, painting, ceramics city amounts to 50,42 km2, with about altars from the 17th century, precious founded in 2000 by the Currently Nowy Targ is the largest and folk history. 33 500 inhabitants. The city hosts The pictures: The Holiest Maria Virgin’s Family American Diaspora. county’s economical centre. The city Podhale National Professional College. (1516), The Mother of God with Baby Jesus It commemorates the is famous for its sheepskin jacket th th (the beginning of 16 century) and the 19 Holy Mass conveyed manufactory. The dynamic sheepskin century polychrome presenting the legend by the Pope at the City jacket industry falls in the 1960s and th connected to the founding of the chapel. Airport on the day of 8 1970s at the time when there was The chapel of St. Jan June 1979, which has a nationwide demand for the sheepskin Kanty, at the city hall been consecrated by jackets from Nowy Targ. Today the city square. It has been father cardinal is home to about 400 workshops from th consecrated on the 11 Franciszek Macharski. this industry. St. Anne’s Church September 1904 by the Nevertheless, Nowy Targ is most renown contemporary parish from its trade activity. The Thursday and Furrier’s products The „Sokół” building dating back to 1908. rector. A parchment The Pontifical Chapel The City Airport obelisk Saturday market is visited by thousands of at the Nowy Targ market It hosted the Gymnastic Association and erection document has people from all of the south of and The Pontifical Chapel from 1979, located The Natural Environment Habitat „Bór was the centre of patriotic and cul- been build into the . The city also hosts Construction, at the Rusankowa Clearing (next to na Czerwonem” (114 ha), the only high tural life. building’s foundations. the yellow path in the direction of peat Podhale habitat, the depth of which Heating and Internal Decoration Fairs. St. Jan Seweryn Goszczyński High School. The school was founded in 1904 August witnesses the organization of Kanty’s ), inside which one may admire amounts to 5 metres. The location owes Podhale Fair located at the main city and was famous for its high level of education. It was here that father Chapel the numerous monuments of Gorce its name to alga Zygonium Ericetorum, the square, which is a 4 day cyclical outside professor J. Tischner and cardinal St. Dziwisz were educated. guerrillas. Thallom of which is red in colour during happening. There are various crafts- autumn time. manship and handmade product pre- Sport and Leisure sentations as well as many folk and other music genre group concerts from all Nowy Targ is one of the main Podhale sports objects it is here that the most over the world. tourist centre, which constitutes the popular sport amongst inhabitants Podhale Fair excursion basis mainly in the direction of of Nowy Targ is found, which is the ice Gorce and Pieniny, but also to the Babia hockey and one may take advantage Mountain Massif, the closely located Tatra of the popular skating opportunity. In 2002 and 2006 Nowy Targ was recognised Our prizes Mountains and Slovakia. In winter Nowy Targ offers ski run paths during the Three Minor Poland Crown The city ensures good accommodation and ski slopes and an annual happening competitions organized by „Gazeta Krakowska”, base and the terrain around the city are The Air Show „John Paul II Podhale Run”, where The hockey match TV Kraków and Minor Poland County and District at the City Airport in the Municipal Sport Hall Association, receiving the notion of a Friendly City, where life is easier. The city has also been very well suited for horse and bike professionals and amateurs take place recognised at the 5th edition of the Nationwide excursions. The City Airport is also the side by side. The city is also home to SSA Competition and Certification Programme „The Fair main advantage as it can be used for „Wojas Podhale” which is one of the best

Play County 2006”. making of landscape flights, take hockey teams nationwide. In 2007 the LAY th In 2007 Nowy Targ received a European tourist prize in FAIR P advantage of gliding and parachuting. Podhale team clinched its 18 National the category entitled: Tourist City Promotion in Media, The Municipal Sports Hall constitutes the Championship titles. which is awarded by journalists from the tourist press. „Zadział” ski lift main location amongst the Nowy Targ John Paul II Podhale Run