A 10-minute walk north of the Old Town, this cemetery was established in the early 1580s and is one of the oldest and largest in Poland. With several thousand gravestones, almost all of them untouched by the Nazis, the Jewish Cemetery is a haunting albeit necessary part of any visit to Tarnów. Seriously overgrown in places, some areas near the main entrance can still be easily reached, and there are even signs in English marking a few of the graveyard’s more eminent souls. Near the entrance is a large memorial to the Jews of Tarnów, built from one of the columns of the city’s destroyed New Synagogue. The cemetery’s original gates are now in Washington’s Holocaust Museum, and their replacements are kept firmly locked, however it is possible to borrow a key by leaving a 20zł deposit at the Tourist Information Centre at Rynek 7 (Open 08:00-20:00, Sat, Sun 09:00-17:00).