Sanok

Sanok (in full The Royal Free City of Sanok, Polish: Kr?lewskie Wolne Miasto Sanok) is a town in south-eastern Poland with 41,400 inhabitants (1995).

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Sanok contains an open air museum in the Biala Gora district, where specimens of every kind of country building from all the region's main ethnic groups (Bojkowie, Lemkowie, Dolinianie and Pogorzanie, Nowotaniec) have been moved here and carefully reassembled in a skansen evoking rural everyday life in the 1800s.

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Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Krosno Voivodship (1975-1998).

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Sanok is the birthplace of Polish artist Zdzislaw Beksinski

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Open air museum: An open air museum is a distinct type of museum exhibiting its collections out-of-doors. Like other museums, an open air museum is a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and ...

Nowotaniec: Nowotaniec is a village in south-eastern Poland, inhabited by about 600 (2002), in Bieszczady mountains. Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Krosno Voivodship (1975-1998) and Sanok district, Bukowsko subdistrict....