Tarczyn ' is a town in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

, located in Masovian Voivodeship

Masovian Voivodeship

-Administrative division:Masovian Voivodeship is divided into 42 counties : 5 city counties and 37 "land counties"...

, about 30 km south of Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

. There were 3,869 inhabitants living there in 2004. This town became famous for the eponymous juices that were made there.

History

Tarczyn’s history reaches back to the 13th century, when a local trading–post and market was established close to the banks of a small river, known today as Tarczynka, thereby deriving its name from this river. Early documented references to the locality include: “Tarczin” (1284), Tarczyno (1303), Tarczyn (1353,1580), Tharczino (1355, 1241), Tarcynum (1634). Tarczyn was first mentioned in 1259. In 1353 the Mazovian Prince Casimir I gave the locality its Magdeburgian Town Charter and financed the founding of St. Nicolas’s church. One of the most famous inhabitants of Tarczyn is renowned Polish war hero Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler

Irena Sendler was a Polish Catholic social worker who served in the Polish Underground and the Żegota resistance organization in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II...

 (born 1910), who lived in Tarczyn before World War II.

Attractions

Tarczyn and its district have a few characteristic places like the forests and brushwoods, the picturesque tracts of woodlands, through which the river Jeziorka wends. Many tourist attractions: Tarczyn’s 16th century church; the wooden church in Rembertow; the rustic, little chapels in Lesna Polana, in Przypki and in Werdun; studs of horses; Organic Farm in Kaweczyn; tourist farm in Przypki; past verdant, thick forests to the western part of the district; the Manor House at Many, where Zlotopolscy daytime soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...

was filmed (with English subtitles, viewable on satellite TV).

Transport

Tarczyn is located along the international "E77" Euro-route (Kraków–Warsaw–Gdańsk), in the southern part of the Masovian Voivodeship, in Piaseczno County, near Warsaw and its Frederic Chopin Airport.