Nałęczów is a

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(population 4,800) situated on the Nałęczów Plateau in Puławy County,

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, eastern

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. Nałęczów belongs to

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History

In the 18th century, the discovery there of healing waters initiated the development of a health resort; the main treatments are for circulatory disorders. The water is now bottled, and sold around the world under the brand: Nałęczowianka. Notable landmarks include the 18th-century baroque-classicist Małachowski Palace (1771–73, since remodeled) and a park and resort complex dating from the 18th-19th centuries. Nałęczów was the favorite vacationing place of novelist Bolesław Prus for three decades from 1882 till his death in 1912. It features museums devoted to Prus and to novelist Stefan Żeromski, a fellow frequent visitor whose literary career Prus generously furthered. The local Jewish population was 250-400 Jews in 1939. In the spring of 1942, Nałęczów was used as a transfer point by the occupying Germans, who herded area Jews onto cattle rail cars, to be transported to both

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and Sobibor death camps. The Jewish community ceased to exist.

Twin towns

Nałęczów is twinned with: *

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Gallery

File:Naleczow Palac-Malachowskich.jpg, Małachowski Palace File:Naleczow park b prus statue.JPG, Bolesław Prus sculpture, outside the Museum dedicated to the author in the Małachowski Palace File:Dom_Żeromskiego_proj_Koszyc_Witkiewicz_Nałęczów.JPG, Stefan Żeromski's ''Chata'', designed in the Zakopane Style of Architecture File:Nałęczów, sanatorium „Stare Łazienki”, widok ogólny.jpg, Stare Łazienki Sanatorium File:Nałęczów, Park Zdrojowy, Aleja Małachowskiego.jpg, Małachowski Alley File:Nałęczów, dworzec kolejowy (HB1).jpg, Railway station File:Nałęczów, sanatorium Fortunat (HB1).jpg, Fortunat Sanatorium File:Nałęczów, ratusz (HB1).jpg, Town hall File:Nałęczów, Park Zdrojowy, Domek Gotycki (Willa Angielska).jpg, ''Domek gotycki'' (Gothic House)

References

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