Nałęczów

{{see also|Nałęczów, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship}}

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| name = Nałęczów

| image_skyline = Naleczow Ksiaze-Jozef.jpg

| image_caption = Sanatorium "Książę Józef" in Nałęczów.

| image_shield = POL Nałęczów COA.svg

| pushpin_map = Poland

| pushpin_label_position = bottom

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{POL}}

| subdivision_type1 = Voivodeship

| subdivision_name1 = Lublin

| subdivision_type2 = County

| subdivision_name2 = Puławy

| subdivision_type3 = Gmina

| subdivision_name3 = Nałęczów

| leader_party = Independent

| leader_title = Mayor

| leader_name = Wiesław Pardyka

| established_title = Founded

| established_date = 8th or 9th century

| established_title2 = Incorporated

| established_date2 = 1963

| area_total_km2 = 13.82

| population_as_of = 2012

| population_total = 3958

| population_density_km2 = auto

| timezone = CET

| utc_offset = +1

| timezone_DST = CEST

| utc_offset_DST = +2

| coordinates = {{coord|51|17|N|22|13|E|region:PL|display=title,inline}}

| elevation_m = 212

| postal_code_type = Postal code

| postal_code = 24-140, 24-150

| blank_name = Car plates

| blank_info = LPU

| website = http://www.naleczow.pl

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Nałęczów {{IPAc-pl|n|a|'|ł|e|n|cz|u|f}} is a spa town (population 4,800) situated on the Nałęczów Plateau in Puławy County, Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland.{{TERYT}} Nałęczów belongs to Lesser Poland.

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.{{cite news|url=https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/whether-its-a-bit-of-history-a-bit-of-rest-or-full-on-self-pampering-youre-looking-for-naleczow-has-it-all-16773 |title=Whether it’s a bit of history, a bit of rest or full on self-pampering you’re looking for, Nałęczów has it all |access-date=17 October 2020}}

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 Bełżec and Sobibor death camps. The Jewish community ceased to exist.{{cite web|url=https://sztetl.org.pl/pl/miejscowosci/n/1663-naleczow/99-historia-spolecznosci/137724-historia-spolecznosci|title=Virtual Sztetl|date=2018-07-21|language=Polish}}

Twin towns

Nałęczów is twinned with:

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)

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