Kunów

Under the bishops Kunów grew into a town of stone. Casimir III granted it town rights in 1365, and in the 15th century Cardinal Zbigniew Oleśnicki, bishop of Kraków, often stayed here and enlarged it, digging a broad pond whose water powered the cloth mills and quarries. Crimean Tatars burned the town in 1502, and it lost its rights until Bishop Piotr Tomicki restored them in 1535. Its red and white marble and dressed stone went into manor houses and palaces across Poland, and neither the Swedish invasion of 1655–1660 nor the plague of 1705 ended the trade: in the late 18th century Kunów's masons were still cutting stone for Warsaw, including the royal Łazienki palace.