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Sanok(IPA: [ˈSanok] 
) is a city in Poland in the voivodeship Subcarpathian.
The city is located in the zone of postglacial valleys, through which south to north the River San hits through. At the foot of the Saana Mountains located, it is at the same time a gateway to the nearby ones Forest Carpathians and Bieszczadywhich attract thousands of tourists every year due to their wild charm.
background
The oldest traces of the settlement of Sanok are in the northwest area of the Glinica hill 393 m above sea level. (Clay pit), a Neolithic settlement area is at this point. Settlements from the Early Bronze Age to the Latency Period have reached 535 m above sea level at the foot of the Kopacz mountain. found, 1 km from Glinica. From the 14th century to the beginning of modern times, the historical Polish settlement areas on today's castle high bank of the San 317 m n.p.m. -on the right side of the SanRiver - developed 4 km from Kopacz (Hauher) away. Along with Jaslo and Krosno makes it makes that Sub-Carpathian Tricity
history
Its origins go back to 1150.
Boleslaus Troiden was the first prince of Sanok, he donated the city of Sanok "with German law, that is with Magdeburg law" and gave the bailiwick to his loyal servant von Sandomir by giving him the right to "like everyone in the city." a German, a Pole, a Hungarian or a Ruthene ". So in 1339 the bailiff of Sanok and his children received the town's marketplace and all the buildings around it, namely the town hall and all equipment and income from the schoolworks and bailiffs.
From the late 14th century, but especially in the 15th century, the city flourished as the center of the local market and trading center on the west-east trade route Silesia - Lesser Poland and Galicia: After the first partition of Poland, it fell to Austria in 1772 and has been back to Poland since 1918.
getting there
Sanok is over from the west Krakow or Rzeszów best to achieve.
By plane
The closest airport is the Rzeszów-Jasionka Airport
, just under 100 km and 1½ to 2 hours by car from Sanok. The bigger one John Paul II Airport Krakow-Balice
(IATA: CRC) is about 230 km away.
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By train
The 1 Sanok train station can be reached twice a day with interregional trains (TLK) of the Polish railways from Rzeszów (Travel time 2:40 hours) and four times a day with regional trains from Jasło (1½ hours). Most trains also stop at the station 2 Sanok Miastowhich is a little closer to the city center (1 km from the market square).
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Coming from Germany you have to change trains in Poznan or Breslau and Rzeszów. B. from Berlin over 13 hours on the road. From Vienna it is around 14 hours via Katowice and Rzeszów.
By bus
Neobus offers the connection Wroclaw – Katowice – Cracow – Rzeszów – Sanok six times a day. The drive from Wroclaw takes about 8 hours, from Krakow 4 hours and from Rzeszów 1½ hours. The Warsaw – Radom – Rzeszów – Sanok connection (takes 6-7 hours in total) is also offered six times a day. Coming from Germany or Austria, you can take the Flixbus to Breslau, Katowice or Krakow and change there to the Neobus to Sanok.
Sindbad offers a direct bus connection from Lübeck via Hamburg, Berlin, Breslau and Opole to Sanok once a day. The journey from Berlin takes about 16 hours.
Other providers that target Sanok are San bus and Galicja Express.
In the street
The journey from Germany is over Krakow to Rzeszów possible on the A4 motorway (Europastraße 40). From there it goes on the state road 19 (or expressway S19) and the voivodship road 886 to Sanok.
If you have a lot of time and want to experience more of the landscape and culture, you can also from Upper Silesia from on the national road 28 through the foothills of the Beskids in southern Poland (Wadowice, Nowy Sącz, Krosno) to Sanok. Their course largely corresponds to the historical one Tatra Imperial Road (Brünn – Lemberg) of the Austrian Empire.
The approximately 892 voivodship road connects Sanok or the nearby Zagórz with the Slovak border and Medzilaborce in the Eastern Slovakia - the birthplace of Andy Warhol (approx. 55 km from Sanok, for which you need at least an hour because of the many bends). This route crosses several river valleys along the mountain foot to the Carpathian watershed.
Parking facilities
- Parking-Zamkowa, on Zamkowa Street, Old Town. Approx. 50 parking spaces.Price: € 0.50 / pc.
- Parking arena, on Bony Street. 100 free commuter parking spaces, every 30 minutes to the old town.
- Parking Kaufland, on Bony Street. 50 free commuter parking spaces, every 30 minutes to the old town.
- Park & Ride parking garage, at 1 Łazienna Street, Old Town. Covered parking lot, approx. 100 parking spaces. Ideal for vehicles up to 2 m high.Price: € 0.50 / pc.
- Parking Skansen, on Rybickiego Street. Approx. 50 parking spaces.Price: € 0.50 / pc.
- Parking- "Korty", at the tennis court, on Mickiewicza Street, Old Town. Approx. 50 parking spaces.Price: € 0.50 / pc.
- Parking-Stokrotka, on F.Giela-Straße, old town. Covered parking lot, ideal for vehicles up to 2 m high, approx. 50 parking spaces.Price: € 0.50 / pc.
Parking-Zamkowa at 2 Zamkowa Street
Parking "Korty" by the tennis court on Mickiewicza Street
Parking Kaufland on Bony Street
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Park & Ride parking garage at 2 Łazienna Street
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Parking-Stokrotka on Gieli-Strasse
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mobility
It is a 20-30 minute walk from the main train station to Rynek (market square).
Sanoker Market Square as seen from Olchowce
Town hall seat of the mayor of Sanok
Sanok, Kosciuszkistrasse, in the background the Saana Mountains
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3-Maja-Straße, a promenade and shopping street in downtown Sanok
Sanok, seen from Parkberg with the Kopacz mountain in the background
Sanok, seen from the Blonia plain
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Tourist Attractions
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The city's greatest attraction are two above-average museums. In their collections they contain a part of the rich local culture that developed in this area over many centuries in the process of mutual interpenetration between two civilizations of the Orthodox East and the Latin West.
Independently of the art treasures collected in the museums, the monuments of the old town also introduce the climate of the old Sanok - although the oldest ones from the 800-year history of the city have not been preserved - the castle from the 16th to 19th centuries, the Byzantine ones -orthodox church from the 18th century, the parish church and the Franciscan monastery, as well as town houses on the market and in the adjoining streets from the 18th / 19th century. Century
Churches
- 1 Trinity Orthodox Cathedral (Sobór Świętej Trójcy w Sanoku), ul.Zamkowej 14 (10 minutes from the market square).
Erected in 1784 in the classical style, with numerous icons.
- 2 Franciscan monastery and cruciform church (Kościół i klasztor Franciszkanów w Sanoku), ul.Franciszkańska 7.The Minorite Monastery was founded in the 14th century. The current baroque building dates from the first half of the 17th century. The church of the Holy Cross, which stands on the market square (Rynek), belongs to the monastery. The church tower was rebuilt in neo-Romanesque style after a fire in 1895. There is also free WiFi here.
- 3 Parish Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord (Kościół Przemienienia Pańskiego w Sanoku), ul.Grzegorza 5 (The back shows ul. Wałowa, a few steps south of the market square).Erected 1874–1887 on the site of a previous building, neo-Romanesque.
Palaces and castles
- 4 Sanoker Royal Castle (Zamek Królewski), ul.Zamkowa 2 (10 minutes from the market square).Originally a Gothic hilltop castle from the 14th century. The Polish-Lithuanian King Władysław II Jagiełło (ancestor of the Jagiellonian dynasty) temporarily resided here. In the 16th century it was completely rebuilt into a Renaissance castle. Today it houses the Historical Museum (see below).
Buildings
- 5 Old Town Hall (Stary ratusz), Rynek 16 (at the market square).Erected in 1786 in an eclectic style. It is painted in a striking pastel pink.
- 6 new town hall (Ratusz), Rynek 1.Exactly opposite the old town hall is today's seat of the city administration. The building was built in 1875–80 as the administrative seat of the then Sanok district in the crown land of Galicia and Lodomeria. The style can also be described as eclectic (typical of the k. U. K. Period), it is painted lime green. The historical coat of arms of the Sanok region can be seen on the facade - a yellow double-headed eagle on a blue background - which also corresponds to the coat of arms of today's Powiat (district) Sanocki.
- 7 Villa Zaleski (Willa Zaleskich), plac św. Jana 1.Villa built 1896–1910 for the important doctor Karol Zaleski.
- 8 Ramerówka (Arkady), ul.Grzegorza 2.Listed two-story building from the 19th century (after 1872). It is named after the Jewish Ramer family who originally lived here. Then the city bought the building to set up a reading room for the citizens. Later it housed a cinema. During the German occupation (1939–45), not only were the Jewish owners expropriated, but the facade on the ground floor was also rebuilt: the arcades, which gave the building its nickname "Arkady", were created. Today it houses a restaurant and various shops.
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Monuments
- 9 Schwejk figure by Adam Przybysz (Ławeczka Józefa Szwejka w Sanoku), ul. 3 Maja (10 minutes from the market square).Created by the Polish artist Adam Przybysz, inaugurated in 2003.
Museums
- 10 Folk architecture museum (Muzeum Budownictwa Ludowego w Sanoku), ul.Romualda Traugutta 3, Ż Wirki i Wigury 6a (Biała-Góra district, on Rybicki Street).The museum's ethnographic park shows traditional ways of life and work in the Sub-Carpathian region. Here you can spend many hours while visiting the farmsteads of Oberländer (Forest Germans), Unterländer, Bojkien and Lemken, as well as the sacred objects closely related to the village architecture.
- 11 Historical museum in Sanok (Muzeum Historyczne w Sanoku), ul.Zamkowa 2.In the halls of the old castle, where the museum of local history has its exhibition rooms, you can get acquainted with the prehistory of the Sanok region and admire a collection of Hutsul products as well as sacred and secular paintings from the 16th to 20th centuries. The museum also invites you to a permanent exhibition by a contemporary painter Zdzisław Beksiński - a native of Sanoker.
Streets and squares
- 12 Marketplace (Rynek).In the central square of the city are among others. the two town halls (Rynek 1 and 16), the small synagogue (Rynek 10) and several listed classicist houses from the first half of the 19th century.
- 13 3 Maja Street (May 3rd Street).Promenade and shopping street in the city center. It goes in a south-westerly direction from the market square (Rynek).
Parks
- 14 city Park (Park miejski im. Adama Mickiewicza).On the 364 m above sea level. M. high park hill above the city; 10 hectare landscaped garden. In the park there are among others. a memorial to General Tadeusz Kościuszko (Polish national hero, fought alongside George Washington in the American War of Independence and was the leader of the Polish uprising against the Polish and Russian occupation in 1794) and a viewing platform.
Events
- Sanok summer fair, at the market square. The popular festival in August.
- Podkarpackie Trójmiasto, at the market square. The Pre-Carpathian Tricity is the largest folk festival in the region at the end of August.
- Sanok Christmas market, in the Sanok open-air museum. During the Advent season.
Events near Sanok
- Wierzbin. Wickerman folk festival at the end of May in Kiczera on a meadow of the Vola-Sękowa Vocational School for Folk Art, about 20 km southwest of Sanok.
- Hutsul and Simmental breed show. Agricultural exhibition in Rudawka Rymanowska at the end of August, about 24 km NW of Sanok.
Palm Sunday in Sanok
Wicker man- "festival fire" in Wola Sekowa
Summer fair on August 17th
State exhibition of Simmental cattle 2013 in Rudawka
Christmas Market
shop
The largest shopping market in the city is Kaufland, located in the south-east in the direction of Lesko at Bony-Strasse 10 (Landesstrasse 28).
kitchen
Sanoks Restaurant serve regional specialties of the house and the region, the dishes of the Polish and European cuisine. The Oberland cuisine is related to the Slovak cuisine and cuisine in Austria and Silesia due to its cultural and regional proximity. A typical Sanok Oberland dish from the Beskids is pork chop with various side dishes, pork knuckle, croquettes with warm beetroot soup and cabbage rolls with minced rice and minced meat. Numerous vegetarian dishes, especially puff pastries with different fillings, are really great. The range of drinks is similar to that in Germany. The local beer is very good and drinkable (there is often unfiltered beer).
Restaurants
Berhida - various dumplings on Daszynskiego Street
Beer garden house on the market square (Rynek)
"From a soldier's life" - restaurant "Bei Schwejk"
Stary Kredens (old dresser), at Michaelplatz 4 (Plac Michała 4)
Cheap
It is worth mentioning the following restaurants to try these dishes:
Easter market in Sanok - Easter cake
Dumplings with blueberry filling
Knuckle of pork with beer
Dumpling with potato filling
Clean roasting in the Sanok style
nightlife
Bars, pubs and trendy restaurants
Cheap
- 4 Pod Zegarem, at the market square - Rynek 15. Restaurant to the tower clock, free Wi-Fi.
- International fast food chains also have branches in the city center, such as Mc Donalds, at 15 Słowackiego Street
accommodation
Cheap
Practical advice
- 1 Centrum Informacji Turystycznej, am Marktplatz, Rynek 14. Tourist information office.
trips
In the vicinity of Sanok:
Mariemont mountain on Oslawa, 7 km from Sanok
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Sanok, from the high bank of the castle Saans seen from, in the background the Saana Mountains (Jul. 2014)
Saantal, seen from the ruins of Sobien Castle, 15 km from Sanok
Solina reservoir, 30 km from Sanok
Riding on the Hutsul horses in Odrzechowa - Wola Sękowa - Rudawka, 25 km from Sanok
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literature
- "The Beast of Sanok" by Bartlomiej Rychter (2009)
Web links
- http://www.sanok.pl - Official website of Sanok
