Tarnów     History of the City     Market Square     Cathedral     Wooden Churches     Jewish Historic Sites     Other interesting places     Museums     Monuments     Walking around Tarnów     Tarnów Tourist Guide -        audio    Wooden Architecture    Castles and Fortifications    Bochnia Salt Mine    Nature    Ethnography    Sanctuaries    Jewish culture    Events    Brochures (pdf)                 Tarnów - Other interesting places Old Catholic Cemetery Old Catholic Cemetery - Founded in the year 1790 in Zablocie (currently Konarskiego Street), it is the largest necropolis in Tarnow. There are about 4000 graves and a few hundred sepulchar monuments of significant historic and artistic value. Among others there are monuments of the insurgents from 1831 and 1863, the victims of the peasant riot of 1846, and from the period of WWII. In addition to the various headstones and memorials, there is a Neo-Gothic chapel of the Sanguszko princes. The oldest sepulchral monuments date from the end of the 18 th century and are those of Anna Maria Radziwillowa from the Lubomirski family and of bishop Florian Janowski. The Bernadine Monastery - No longer serving as a monastery, this building was General Joseph Bem's Mausoleum erected in the late 15 th c. in the Gothic architecture style. General Joseph Bem's Mausoleum - Designed by the architect Jan Szyszko-Bohusz and constructed in the year 1929, this memorial sits in the norther part of the city park. The Mausoleum's sarcophagus, holding the General's remains, is supported by six columns. Jewish Bath House was built in 1900 through 1904 and served as a place for Jewish people to bathe in the Moresque style. At this location 728 prisoners were taken to Oseiecim on June 14 th , 1940, becoming the first victims of the concetration camp in Oswiecim. The Former Bernardine Church was constructed in 1468 Old Catholic Cemetery as a part of the Bernardine monastery and it still maintains some Gothic features. The Contemporary Bernardine Church was built in 1776 under the influence of Baroque architecture. The Castle is actually ruins of a castle built in 1329-31 on St. Martin Mountain by Spycimir Leliwita. Originally the castle was made of brick and stone and it was composed of a massive tower, a small residential area, and a wall and gate. In the first half of the 16 th century, the castle became the residence of the Tarnowski family. At this time the castle was expanded and consequently consisted of a high and low castle surrounded with a bastioned fortification. At the end of the 17 th century the castle fell into decline.  2 0 0 8     ©    T o u r i s t   I n f o r m a t i o n   C e n t r e   -   T a r n o w   -   P o l a n d