Cathedral Square, next to the Tarnów Cathedral
Cracow sculptor Bronisław Chromy
29 June 1981
5 metres
Karol Wojtyla often visited Tarnów during his service as a Bishop and Metropolitan of Cracow. Pope John Paul II stayed in Tarnów 9th and 10th June 1987. At that time, during his meeting with the inhabitants of Tarnów he said: “You don’t even realise how much I like to visit Tarnów”.

It is one of the first John Paul II depicting monuments in the world! It is situated on the Cathedral Square, next to the southern wall of the Cathedral chancel. Holy Father,which figure is cast in bronze, is presented in a canonical dress with unfolded arms.

Narutowicza street, in front of the Old Cemetery
Tarnów sculptors Bogdana and Anatol Drwal
19 June 1966 (26th anniversary of the first transport of Jews to Aushvitz)
The monument consists of two parts: three expressive kneeling figures constitute first part of the monument, second part is a concrete architectural structure with two “Grunwald” swords rising over it as well as a crying child by the wall( a symbol of life after the loss of the intimates).

On the front wall from Narutowicza street there are engraved only dates: 1939-1945, whereas the back wall was engraved with the following words:
“In honour of 45 000 inhabitants of Tarnów region-the slaughtered victims of German fascism, the heroes who died for the independence of our homeland in the years 1939-1945”.

Petőfi square next to Krakowska street
an unknown Hungarian artist
1986, founded by Hungarians as a gift for Tarnów
Sandor Petőfi(1823-1849) was an aide-de-camp of general Joseph Bem during Hungarian revolution 1848-1849.

Bronze bust of the poet is located on the brick granite pedestal against a background of a concrete three-dimensional composition and surrounded with green square which is opened by Seklerska Gate(one of the two gates in Poland, the second is situated in Stary Sącz) from the site of Krakowska Street. Seklerska Gate was placed in May 2001 by Seklers(carpenters from Hungary).

in the middle of Kazimierz Wielki square
Cracow sculptor Tadeusz Błotnicki
26th November 1900
4,5 metres(1,1 m bust, 3,4 m socle)

The 100th anniversary of birth of Adam Mickiewicz and the 45th anniversary of his death were commemorated by the inhabitants of Tarnów in the way they founded his bronze bust which is located between two ornamented candelabrums. It is said that the monument survived German occupation as Germans were told it was a bust of Goethe…

Sanguszko Park in Tarnów-Gumniska, behind the palace

It is a replic of Mercury(Roman god of trade) monument from 1580 located in Florence. The monument presents a young boy wearing helmet with wings on the head, similar wings growing from his feet and holding a stick(kadyceusz). It was brought to Gumniska by one of the members of Sanguszko family-the then owner of the palace.

Wood Square, near Lwowska Street
reader Józef Potępa from Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow
architect Julian Klimek(Cracow) and engineer Inga Kłosowicz(Tarnów)
8th October 1988
6,15 m: 1,65 m socle, 4,5 m figure(weight:3,5 t)
Wincenty Witos(1874-1945) was the creator and an activist of people’s movement from nearby Wierzchosławice, he was also a member of parliament and a prime minister of RP government in the interwar period.

A magnificent monument: the figure of Witos is presented upright, cast in bronze and placed on the granite pedestal.

Victims of Katyń Square, near Wałowa street
Tarnów sculptor Bronisław Kukla
28th June 1931

The first monument devoted to the unknown soldier was a plaque with an inscription: “For the unknown Polish soldier killed for our homeland 1914-1920”, which was anonymously placed on Kazimierz Wielki Square at night 20/21 June 1925. Present monument was erected by Tarnów branch of Towarzystwo Opieki nad Grobami Bohaterów in 1931. The monument is in the form of a grave-mound and is made of porphyry and scattered rocks. It is crowned with a multilateral modernistic pedestal with an iron candle symbolizing an oil lamp( a few months ago after unveiling ground from Cmentarz Legionistów in Łowczówek was placed inside the lamp).

Piłsudskiego street, in front of Kazimierz Brodziński I Liceum Ogólnokształcące
sculptor, professor of Cracow School of Fine Arts(current ASP) Walery Gadomski(1833-1911)
17th July 1884
Kazimierz Brodziński was born 8th March 1791 in Królówka near Bochnia and died 10th October 1835 in Drezno. He studied in Tarnów gimnazjum where he became familiarized with German language and literature.

This project was initiated by master of Tarnów I Gimnazjum Bronisław Trzaskowski. It is a bronze bust of the Romantic poet and a publicist placed on a high stone socle. In 1940 the monument was destroyed by Nazis and reconstructed in 1974

Piłsudskiego street, in front of Kazimierz Brodziński I Liceum Ogólnokształcące
Cracow sculptor Piotr Kozakiewicz(1837-1893)
Tarnów stone-mason Jan Czuba
1886
Józef Szujski was born 16th June in Tarnów and died 7th February 1883 in Cracow. He was a famous Polish historian, professor of the Jagiellonian University and a co-founder of Przegląd Polski. He was also a member of a political group “Stańczyki”.

This monument was also initiated by Bronisław Trzaskowski, master of the I Gimnazjum in Tarnów. It is a bronze bust placed on a high stone socle.

Mickiewicza street, in front of the Ludwik Solski theatre in Tarnów(former building of "Sokół")
one of the most gifted Polish sculptors-Xavery Dunikowski(1875-1964)
1905
11th June 1972
In September 1945, in a newly built Municipal Home of Culture(located in a former building of “Sokół”) there was established the Old Theatre of the Home of Culture, which functioned as Ludwik Solski Municipal Theater just from 28th October of the same year. Solski agreed to use his name in the name of the theatre and not only directed plays but also performed on stage in this theatre(in the role of Dyndalski in Aleksander Fredro's “Zemsta”). Apart from that he donated the monument as a gift for “his” theatre.

The monument presents the actor in one of his roles and is a bust cast in bronze.

The Prisoners of Auschwitz Square, in front of the former Jewish bath(Mikvah)
Otto Schier, Tarnów architect
14th June 1975 (35th anniversary of the event)
The monument was erected in place from which a group of 728 people(Poles from Tarnów and its region) was moved by Nazis to the first transport to the concentration camp KL Auschwitz.

The monument is made of stone and concrete(symbolizes Auschwitz striped garments) and iron elements. An iron frieze with figures (symbolizes march to Auschwitz) was realized by Marian Biedroński's works, plastic elements on the concrete were forged by Alfred Gucwa's stone works.

The Prisoners of Auschwitz Square, near Lwowska street
: professor Stefan Daus, a sculptor and an architect dr Wojciech Kosiński (both of them from Cracow)
17th September 2000
It is the first monument of that kind in Poland. Its corner stone was sacred by Pope John Paul II 16th June 1999 during a mass in Stary Sącz. The figure of woman symbolizes Poland from which three eagles fly away. The figure of woman was cast in bronze and the rocks are of red granite.
Next to the monument an obelisk was placed with an inscription on the plaque:
“In honour of the victims of stalinism in the years 1939-1956”

Tragic life of the persecuted is expressed by the form of a hurt bird which is linked with the other birds by Victoria sign. The monument, 6 metres high, was cast in bronze and placed on a granite pedestal(in the form of two cracked plates symbolizing tear of Poland after the outbreak of WWII. Stone elements are enriched with bronze bas-reliefs presenting the symbols of : struggling Poland, Sybiracy Association, Katyń, Political Prisoners of Stalinism Association and dates of the phases of building new homeland. The stone plate was placed in front of the monument which allows people to put flowers at the foot of it.

The monument was initiated by Social Committee of the Building of Victims of Stalinism Monument in Tarnów and it is a tribute of the society of Małopolska to the victims of stalinism and repressions in years 1939-1956. The monument is devoted to the following: Poles slaughtered in Katyń, Charków, Twer and other places of execution in the Soviet Union, National Army soldiers, who were slaughtered or repressed by NKWD, members of Polish Independence Organizations who were sentenced to death or long-term imprisonment by PRL courts.

Wałowa street, opposite to Heroes of Ghetto street
Bogdana Drwal- Tarnów sculptor and Stefan Niedorezo-a graduate from Cracow Academy of Fine Arts
project: Otto Schier, realizator: Eugeniusz Kłak-stone work craftsman.
11st May 1985
2,5 m (it is the height of the figure of general)
General Józef Bem, the hero of Poland and Hungary, was born in Tarnów 14th March 1794 and died in Aleppo(Syria) 10th December 1850. The ashes of the general were ceremonially brought to Poland in 1929 and buried in a magnificent mausoleum in Park Strzelecki. As a result of the change of denomination(consequently he changed his name for Murad Pasza) could not be buried in the Tarnów Cathedral.

The monument was initiated by Tarnów Friends of Hungary Association and erected in 1929. It presents a standing general wearing a Hungarian uniform. His figure was cast in bronze in the Tarnów casting works of Roman Sapa and was placed on a granite pedestal. General Bem monuments are also situated in Ostrołęka and Budapest. Bemowo-one of the districts of Warsaw was named after the general.

Park Strzelecki
Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz (rector of Cracow Academy of Fine Arts in years 1922-1927)
30th June 1929
General Józef Bem, the hero of Poland and Hungary, was born in Tarnów 14th March 1794 and died in Aleppo(Syria) 10th December 1850. The ashes of the general were ceremonially brought to Poland in 1929 and buried in a magnificent mausoleum in Park Strzelecki. As a result of the change of denomination(consequently he changed his name for Murad Pasza) could not be buried in the Tarnów Cathedral.

In Park Strzelecki in the middle of a park pond there was erected a mausoleum-sarcophagus resting on six Corinthian columns. Its walls are covered with dates: 1794(his birthyear), 1750(his death), 1929(his ashes were brought to Tarnów), inscriptions: in Polish “Józef Bem”, in Hungarian “Daddy Bem, the greatest leader of the Hungarian independence movement”, in Arab “Ferik Murad Pasza”. The pillars of the mausoleum were placed on a two-stage plate which rises from water and were surrounded with stone balls symbolizing artillery in which general Bem served. These balls are linked by the gun metal chains cast from melt cannons.

Bernardyńska street, number 13, an outside courtyard of Bernardin monastery
Stefan Niedorezo-Cracow sculptor, co-author of Bem Monument next to Wałowa street
1985 It is the figure of St. Francis cast in artificial stone and presenting the whole saint with a dog at his feet.

Old Cemetery in Zabłocie, Tarnów(in the vicinity of the monument of insurgents)
1999
The monument is in the form of a risen pavement made from granite and marble cobblestones. The monument is engraved with inscription from the Bible: “And he said, what did you do? The voice of your brother's blood screams to me from the earth”. On the monument there is also engraved a list of 53 people who lost their lives during these events.

Old Cemetery in Zabłocie, Tarnów(in the vicinity of the victims of Inroad 1846 monument)
interwar period, in place of the former one
The monument-grave is compounded of sandstones crowned with a big cross. Its fronton carries a plaque with an inscription: “To the fallen for our homeland in 1863”. On the monument there are placed 300 marble tablets with the names of the fallen insurgents. The monument is surrounded with the graves of legionaries and a tombstone of Rufin Piotrowski-an insurgent, a diarist and a teacher in Tarnów schools, who died in 1872 in Tarnów.

Jewish Cemetery, Szpitalna street
Dawid Beker-a sculptor
1946

This monument commemorates the Tarnów Jews who were slaughtered by Nazis on the area of the Jewish cemetery. It is in the form of a broken stone column(the only preserved element of the Tarnów New Synagogue, which was destroyed in years 1939-1941). On the column there is a plaque: “Here are buried 2 000 Jews who were savagely slaughtered by the German thugs during 11st June 1942-5th September 1943”.

The Communal Cemetery in Tarnów-Mościce, Black Road street
mgr inż. Jacek Sumara
Azoty Chemical Works in Tarnów as well as “Chemobudowa” in Cracow
30th September 1975
a plate with four plaques, two high pillars embellished with some elements containing the quotes of B. Jastrun: “To co się stanie z kodeksem dziejów...Wyście pisali krwią i nadzieją”.

After the victory of the “Solidarity”an iron cross(resembling that of Pope) was added. On the monument there are engraved 23 names of the fallen of whom the youngest was 12 years old and the eldest was 47. One of the inscriptions says: “They were killed struggling against Nazi occupiers in years 1939-1945. Honour to their remembrance”

Matka Boska Fatimska Alley 2, next to ambulance service
lieutenant Ujejski
9th September 1923
8th June 1929

The 3 metre high monument was initiated by commander of the regiment Aleksander Ehbar on the area of the Kłuszyńska Cavalry barracks in Tarnów. It is devoted to the fallen soldiers and officers of the regiment. It is made of concrete in the form of an obelisk crowned with an eagle with extended wings. The front plate is engraved with an inscription: “To soldiers and officers of the 5th regiment of mounted riflemen who died for our homeland-comrades in arms. 1920-1923”.

Next to the monument in August 2002 four small obelisks were unveiled, first of them is devoted to Sybiracy, second one to WiN organization, third to political prisoners of stalinism and fourth to those who were conscripted into “Mining Battalions” instead of the army.

Krzyska street, Communal Cemetery in Tarnów-Krzyż
Marian Skoczek
1951.
It is made of concrete and Pińczów sandstone with a cast iron Piast eagle on the top. On the monument there is a plaque with an inscription: “Forever glory for heroes fallen for our homeland 1945” and about 100 names of the fallen soldiers.

Krzyska street, Communal Cemetery in Tarnów-Krzyż
1948
The monument is in the form of a marble cuboid crowned with a sandstone obelisk devoted to those who died during the liberation of Tarnów region in years 1944-1945. On the front stone plaque there is an inscription: “Honour and glory to those who died for the independence of Soviet Union and Poland”.

Fish Square/Jewish street
It is the remnant of the oldest Tranów synagogue. The Tarnów “Old” Synagogue was erected around 1630 or 1660. It was a Baroque brick building dominating over the neighbouring residential buildings. During the occupation in November 1939 it was burnt and destroyed by Nazis three years later. The only preserved part is bimah. The “New” Synagogue(built in 1908) was also destroyed by Nazis.

Pszenna street, next to the St. Stanislas Kostka church(Tarnów-Zbylitowska Góra)

Krakowska street, crossroads with Liściasta street

On the monument there are four crosses and a steering wheel. Every cross symbolizes a child who was run over there by a drunken driver in June 1990. It cautions against irresponsible driving under the influence of alcohol. On the monument there is an inscription: “Do not drink, driver, you may kill someone!”.

Szczepanika square, next to Mickiewicza street
Michał Poręba
2002
Jan Szczepanik, “Polish Edison”, was born 13th June 1872 in Rudniki near Mościska(Ukraine) and died 8th November 1926 in Tarnów. He was connected with Tarnów since 1902 when he married Wanda Dzikowska(born in 1879) in the Tarnów cathedral, she was a daughter of a famous Tarnów district doctor- Zygmunt Dzikowski. Szczepanik was connected with Vienna and Drezno by his occupation but he always returned to his family in Tarnów. After death he was buried in a grave of Dzikowscy family at the Old Cemetery in Tarnów.

It is the first in the world monument of a gifted inventor-the pioneer of a colour photography, television and film,the precursor of a modern weaving industry and a bulletproof vest.

Cathedral Square, from Cathedral street
14th November 1884

The founder of the figure was the then Bishop of Tarnów Józef Alojzy Pukalski. The monument was unveiled on the 30th anniversary of the announcement of the dogma concerning the immaculate conception and presents the Holy Virgin standing on the globe with a crescent moon at her foot. Furthermore, she is wearing a crown with twelve stars. The socle is engraved with: “Pray for us, Queen of Poland”.

Krakowska street, in front of CH “Krakus”
Tarnów sculptor Jacek Kucaba
2001

The elephant was sculpted during summer holidays near Palace of the Youth in 2001. The same year the elephant was transported near CH Krakus at the crossroads of Krakowska, Nowy Świat and Mościckiego streets. Originally it was white however, it was painted by children in 2003. It is a common “meeting point”among the youth of Tarnów.

Wałowa street, next to the “Mirror Room”
Tarnów sculptor Jacek Kucaba
3rd December 2004

The figures of Agnieszka Osiecka, Zbigniew Herbert and Jan Brzechwa sitting on the main pedestrianized street of the city-Wałowa street on the bench in front of the building which houses the Mirror Room. The boxes placed next to them contain books with their works.

Wałowa street, near the place of the former tram stop
May 2004

In years 1911-1942 Tarnów was the only provincial town of Galicia where trams run. Tarnów trams in red with blue and gold coat of arms were called “the ladybirds”. The length of the tramline was 2,5 kilometres. Every day from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. with the frequency of 6 minutes run 6 trams.

Alicja and Jan Preiss square, near the crossroads of Nowy Świat and Kopernika streets
Tarnów sculptor Jacek Kucaba

Wielkie Schody street
architect Witold Gizbert Studnicki, realizator of the sculpture: Henryk Hoch(Heschel) 1881-1943
1936

The author was inspired by the masks of the Tarnów Town Hall. The inhabitants of the then Tarnów originally thought it was the monument of the the founder of the city-Spycimir Leliwita. From the beginning it became the object frequently painted with graffiti; a photo from the thirties of the 20th century presents the mask painted with the inscriptions by the local communists.

Szkotnik street( the area of the former so called “lower barracks”)
Jerzy Martynów
Franciszek Machowski, Tarnów stone mason
20th May 2004
In years 1947-1993 in the so called “lower barracks” in Tarnów there were stationed the 14th Kołobrzeg Mechanised Regiment.
The soldiers took part in the fights for Warszawa, Kołobrzeg as well as in the bloody fights for the breaking of Wał Pomorski where a heavy toll was taken as a result of a severely fortified area.

During the ceremony of the unveiling of the monument an urn containing earth coming from battle fields(where 355 soldiers died) was placed. On the granite socle there is a large white Piast eagle and at the foot of the monument an inscription: “in this place there is buried an earth with blood of the fallen soldiers of the 14th Infantry Regiment from the battle fields of WWII” was engraved.

Panny Marii street (the area of Our Lady of Scapular Sanctuary)
26th April 1992

This boulder commemorates patriotic celebrations which took place in this church during PRL period, for example on the anniversary of the outbreak of WWII and many more.

On the monument there is an inscrption: “To the fallen for our homeland”

Old Cemetery in Zabłocie, Tarnów(in the vicinity of the victims of the inroad 1846monument)
Antoni Kurzawa(sculptor) together with A. Pisz; realizator: Władysław Eliasz
1876(four years after Piotrowski’s death)
Rufin Piotrowski: an insurgent, a diarist and a teacher in schools of Tarnów, died in 1872 in Tarnów

The monument is composed of stone blocks in the form of a steep pyramid on which a figure of a woman was placed(she symbolizes our homeland). In one hand she holds a medallion presenting the head of a man, in the other she keeps a laurel wreath. On the monument there is also placed a chain with broken shackles.

Petöfi square, next to Krakowska street
26th May 2001
Seklerska Gate named after Józef Bem and Sandor Petöfi is a gift of a Hungarian foundation Irott Szó and Sepsiszentgyőrgy city for Tarnów city. It is the second, except for Stary Sącz, such gate in Poland. The day of the passing of the gate was connected with the 170th anniversary of the battle of Ostriołęka-one of the battles of Polish November uprising in which Józef Bem participated.

An expression “secler”(seculi) means folk, nation and the mission of the defence of south-eastern borders of the Hungarian Kingdom. Seklers reside in the area located the farthest in the east in the Carpathian Mountains. They have played an important role in the Hungarian history and intellectual life. The medieval Seklers’ council and military democration was a one-of-a-kind phenomenon in feudal Europe.
Till the 14th century the notion of Seklers-siculitas-was tantamount to the notion of nobility. Modern history has been the sequence of various battles for rights. Sekler gates constitute the embodiment of a peculiar folk awareness. They were made of different kinds of good quality oak trees and less frequently of pine trees. The structure of the gates resemble European craftsmanship technique whereas the layout of the ornaments(sculpted plants, moustaches and other symbols) symbolizes another world and have its source in the reality before the conquest of Hungarians who came from east.

Among the gates built ages before on the large areas of eastern Europe the most numerous and technically interesting ones are preserved in Transylvania. Unfortunately they are completely forgotten in Europe. The traditinal Seklers’ hospitality does not allow gates to be closed. They are open to everybody, both happy and miserable, like open and philanthropic hearts of Seklers. It is expressed by the inscriptions on the arches of the gates: “Peace to the newcomers, blessing with the leavers”.

Mościckiego street, the corner of Szkotnik street(the area of the so called “lower barracks)”
2002
In years 1918-1939 in the so called “lower barracks” in Tarnów there were stationed the 16th Infantry Regiment.
During the September campaign it constituted the Cracow Army. In years 1939-1945 the soldiers of this regiment struggled for the independence of our homeland in partisan detachments of various organizations: the National Army, the Services

PTTK street (St. Martin Hill, east from the children's playground)

On the small square covered with granite cobblestones there was placed a boulder with a cross(resembling that of scouts) and in the middle of the cross there is an inscription: “Here was murdered a group of young Poles slaughtered by Nazis 23th December 1939...”

Krzyska street, Parish Cemetery in Tarnów-Krzyż
It is a tapering sandstone obelisk with a cross on its top. It is devoted to the inhabitants of the then Krzyż village near Tarnów, who were killed during WWII. Two inscriptions engraved on the monument: “To God for glory, to people in order to remember the victims of WWII from our parish. The parishioners”. And below: “To the victims of concentration camps and fronts”.

Zagumnie street, Parish Cemetery in Tarnów-Klikowa
The monument is in the form of an altar with two granite polished stones. On first of them, a rectangular one there is an inscription: “And when years pass and the descendants forget about the fearful days of 1939-1945...”The second one is engraved with the map of Poland with the V-sign in the middle.

Zbylitowska street(Tarnów-Mościce, W. Mucha Park)
1998
Wincenty Mucha was a leader of the scouting regiment and the founder of the Grey Ranks in Mościce.

The monument was erected by the living scouts of the Grey Ranks. It commemorates scoutmaster W. Mucha and the scouts who struggled for an independent homeland.