Jarosław is a historic city lying in the past on the cultural border between the influences of the East and the West. To this day, next to the churches, churches have survived here, including the co-cathedral of the Greek Catholic rite. On the market square, you can see some of the most beautiful Renaissance tenement houses in Podkarpacie.
From the 12th century on, the town and then the city of Jarosław was an important stop on the trade route leading to Ruthenia. One of the largest fairs in the country was held here, to which king Władysław IV himself came in the 17th century. The period of the greatest prosperity of Jarosław was in the 16th and 17th centuries, when most of its most important monuments were built, with the Collegiate Church of Corpus Christi, the Dominican church and monastery, the Benedictine monastery and the buildings of the market square. The most famous building here is the Renaissance Orsetti Tenement House with arcades and a high attic, which today houses a museum.
The local underground is a reminder of the merchant past of Jarosław and one of the city's greatest attractions. An underground tourist route runs through the cellars, where goods transported by merchants were stored in the past.
Being a city on the cultural border, Jarosław was inhabited by Poles, Ruthenians and Jews. To this day, you can see the 18th-century cathedral church and the buildings of the Large and Small Synagogues.
