Description of Niepolomice

Niepolomice are 25km away from Krakow. History of the town dates back to 13th century, however the oldest buildings are dated on a middle of 14th century and arised by order of king Casimir III the Great. The historical acts are strictly related to court and frequent visits of sovereigns at the Niepolomice Castle.

Nowadays, Niepolomice is one of the most vital developing municipality in Poland. Thankfully to favourable location, good infrastructure and activities of local government, it became a place for investments of over twenty large companies - e.g. Coca Cola, MAN, Royal-Canin, Nidec or Oknoplast. Besides these, over 1.300 transactors operate on the area of the municipality. The town is plunged into proecological activities. Niepolomice prepared the strategy of carbon-dioxide reduction by 20% until 2020, after it joined the Convenant of Mayors as one of four towns in Poland. The strategy bases mainly on use of solar thermal energy mounted in public and tourist buildings as well as use of heat pumps among citizens. Niepolomice also promotes local economic zone as a place for production of solar power devices.

Royal Castle

The Forum will be organised in a Royal Castle, where a heat pomp is successfully used for some years. The fortress in Nepolomice became to be built in a middle of 14th century by order of Casimir III the Great. The castle was the favourite place of stay for the king, but its heyday came not until the time of Wladyslaw II Jagiello reign. There were held courts, meetings of the king and his board and hunting parties with company of foreign guests as well. Sigismund I the Old entertained the refurbishment of the castle, but its final shape the residence gained during Sigismund II Augustus reign. The bound of castle's prosperity was brought with Swedish invasion. In 1655 Niepolomice were robbed, a church was destroyed and castle was partly arranged as a food warehouse. Austrians settled in the town after Poland's partition in 1772. They adopted the building to barracks and pulled down the second floor. It became a public building in a time between the world wars and after the Second World War. There were placed municipal premises, telephone exchange and even delivery room. The castle became a property of Niepolomice municipality in 1991. Then the complex restoration works were made. These works were hard and expensive. The castle required not only cosmetic works, but also strengthening of construction and drainage. Beautiful renaissance architectonic details attiring windows, chambers, entrance gate were renovated.

Nowadays the castle plays role of business and cultural centre. There are organised numerous concerts, exhibitions, business meetings, wedding ceremonies, banquets and on attic also runs three-star hotel with capacity of 55 guests as well as Conference Centre named by Lech Walesa.

There is going to be built the first passive hotel in direct neighbourhood of the castle, which will be supplied with solar energy and geothermal and waste heat as well.

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How to access Niepolomice

Access to Krakow by train:

Train links with main station Krakow Glowny can be searched on PKP website.

Access to Krakow by plane:

The links with Krakow Airport can be explored here. Then you ought to come to PKP Krakow Glowny train station from the airport by suburb-train.

Scheme of PKP Krakow Glowny train station and location of bus stops: