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Famous for its painted cottages. The custom of decorating village rooms with floral paintings dates back to the late 19th century, when village women began decorating cottage interiors with tissue paper flowers, cutouts, and straw spiders hanging from the ceiling, as well as painted flowers on the walls. Paintings were also applied to the exterior walls of buildings, wells, and fences. There are approximately 20 painted houses in Zalipie.
Zalipie is a small rural village in south-eastern Poland, in Gmina Olesno, Dąbrowa County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
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In the middle of the park stands the Mausoleum of General Józef Bem, who fought for Polish and Hungarian independence in the 19th century. He was born in Tarnów in 1794 but died in Aleppo in 1850. Bem was initially buried there until his remains were moved to Tarnów in 1929, 11 years after Poland gained independence. The mausoleum is a sarcophagus, resting on 6 columns with Corinthian capitals. There are inscriptions in Polish, Hungarian and Arabic on the walls of the sarcophagus.
This small neo-gothic palace at the edge of the Strzelecki Park now houses exhibition spaces open to the public.
The cemetery was founded in the 16th century. It is one of the oldest and most interesting cemeteries in southern Poland, with over four thousand tombstones. Research from 2019 has discovered over 11,000 people are buried in the necropolis. The keys to the cemetery gate can be borrowed, for a returnable deposit, at the Tarnów Information Center (Rynek 7) or at the premises of the Tarnów museum.