Zwoleń

Zwoleń lies on the Zwoleńka east of Radom, in the historic land of Sandomierz. Founded as a royal town under Władysław Jagiełło in the early fifteenth century, it grew into a local trading centre on the road from Lublin toward Radom and Greater Poland. The Renaissance poet Jan Kochanowski served at its parish between 1566 and 1575 and was buried in the Church of the Holy Cross. The Swedish invasion of the mid-seventeenth century devastated Zwoleń and ended its regional prominence.