Webcam Limanova. Market Square
Limanowa is a small town in southern Poland. It is an administrative, economic and cultural center. The city is well prepared to receive tourists.
Mention of the town dates back to 1496, when it was documented as Ilmanowa, a rural estate owned by members of the nobility. In 1520, the ownership of the estate passed from the Slupsky family to Ahakia Jordan, who subsequently established the judiciary.
Limanowa became a town in 1565 after King Zygmunt August received the right of town. The inhabitants were not required to pay taxes to the crown for thirty years, during which time the town developed rapidly. However, its economic power declined due to the plague and devastation caused by the Swedish invasion of 1655.
From the first partition of Poland in 1772 until 1918, the town (called Limanow until 1850) was part of the Austrian monarchy (Austrian Empire), then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (Cisleitania after the Compromise of 1867), the head county.
In the early months of World War I, the city was the scene of a battle: in December 1914, the Austro-Hungarian army repulsed a Russian breakthrough, which was to reach Krakow. Therefore, the fate of the province was not contested by Poland and Soviet Russia, until the peace of March 18, 1921.
Before World War II there was a large Jewish community in the settlement.
