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Tarnow is a city in Poland, about 40 miles east of Cracow. Tarnow is closely associated with the name of the Tarnowski family, who established the city. Go to the old town where there are the majority of the monuments, including the Gothic town hall, with a museum of paintings and handicraft inside, Renaissance houses, Gothic Cathedral with Renaissance tombs of the Tarnowski family.

Tarnow is a place convenient for investments and business; namely, convenient communication location, signify-cant number of inhabitants 130.000, professional banking service, highly qualified technical and managerial staff, facilities system for big investors worked out by the self government. The municipal authorities offer to the entrepreneurs attractively located communal properties.

The town hall is located in the centre of the Marketplace, namely on the lot separated during the founding of the city. During the beginning period after the founding, Tarnów - like majority of the newly founded towns - had no Town Hall. The origin of the Town Hall and its initial period are not known. The first stone building was probably erected from the scratch at the end of the 15th century.

Today, Tarnow is a city of one hundred and thirty thousand inhabitants. It is situated at the intersection of major transit roads from Cracow in the west to Przemysl and border crossing at Medyka to the east. As well as from Warsaw and Kielce to the north of Nowy Sacz and border crossings at Piwniczna, Lysa on the Dunajec, Lysa Polana to the south.

In the period of time between the two World Wars, 1918-1939, one of the most significant factors building the city, was the construction of a huge chemical factory. Today this western part of Tarnow is known as Moscice from the name of its founder - Ignacy Moscicki, who later on was also the President of Polish Republic.
The rapid growth of the city is the result of the favourable factors, created by the city authorities and its advantageous geographical location. The importance of that location will certainly be even more significant for Tarnow, when the construction of trans-European highway starts in its vicinity.

Tarnow is a major industrial city with considerable chemical, glass, machinery and food factories. Many inhabitants of the city and its vicinity are employed with the biggest tarnovian companies such as Zaklady Azotowe, Zaklady Elektryczne "Tamel", Zaklady Przemyslu Miesnego "Miestar" and Huta Szkla Gospodarczego which recently got the rank of state incorporations.
The reason for the rapid growth of private enterprises might be the deep-rooted tradition of private craftsmanship in our city. Almost all service and commercial enterprises are private nowadays. More and more small and medium industrial companies are getting privatised as well. As the city authorities are deeply concerned with creating good environment for the growth of entrepreneurship, it is noticeable that in recent times many domestic and foreign companies find investing in Tarnow more and more attractive. Automatic connections with the world, are possible due to quickly growing telecommunication network. Tarnow is becoming a part of information network between the biggest cities in Poland. That creates even better conditions for investment.

"TARNOVIA" sports club was the most significant one in the pre-war period in Tarnów; its Football Section was in the 1st League just after the war. Today, cinder-track racing is the most popular sport among the inhabitants of both Tarnów and the Region. This spectacular sport has been known in Tarnów since 1957, when the Speedway Section was formed in the UNIA Sports Club.
In almost 40 year, the Tarnovian cinder-track racers were successful many times; they gained a lot of titles of champion, including the title of nation-wide champion. Furthermore, they represented our country at the world championship. So it is not surprising, that the cinder-track racing events in Mościce are usually watched by several thousand people. However, cinder-track racing is not the only sports in Tarnów.

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