This article discusses the history of the spatial development of the town of Jordanów, as well as the cultural heritage sites located inside the territory of this urban centre. Jordanów, currently located within the administrative area of the Lesser Poland Voivodship, in the district of Sucha, was founded as a private town in 1564 and issued a charter by the Krakow Voivod Spytek Jordan of Zakliczyn. The urban centre is an example of a town which was founded in cruda radice–i.e. on previously undepeveloped land–during the early modern period but whose model bears a similarity to traditional urban forms used in previous centuries.

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Niniejszy artykuł dotyczy problematyki historii rozwoju przestrzennego miasta Jordanów oraz zabytków dziedzictwa kulturowego zlokalizowanych na terenie tego ośrodka. Jordanów, położony obecnie w granicach województwa małopolskiego, w powiecie suskim, został założony jako miasto prywatne w 1564 roku z fundacji wojewody krakowskiego Spytka Jordana z Zakliczyna. Ośrodek jest przykładem miasta, które lokowano na surowym korzeniu w okresie nowożytnym, ale jego rozplanowanie nawiązuje do tradycyjnych form urbanistycznych stosowanych w wiekach wcześniejszych.

This article discusses the history of the spatial development of the town of Jordanów, as well as the cultural heritage sites located inside the territory of this urban centre. Jordanów, currently located within the administrative area of the Lesser Poland Voivodship, in the district of Sucha, was founded as a private town in 1564 and issued a charter by the Krakow Voivod Spytek Jordan of Zakliczyn. The urban centre is an example of a town which was founded in cruda radice–i.e. on previously undepeveloped land–during the early modern period but whose model bears a similarity to traditional urban forms used in previous centuries.