Baranów Sandomierski is a small town in southern Poland, in the
Subcarpathian Voivodship, Tarnobrzeg County on the Vistula River, with 1,440
inhabitants. Baranów lies
near the Vistula river, along regional road nr. 985, which goes from Tarnobrzeg
to Mielec. It belongs to the historic province of Lesser Poland, and for
centuries was part of the Sandomierz Voivodeship. Its name comes either from
sheep husbandry, which was prevalent in this area in the past (baran means ram
in Polish), or from the Baranowski family, owners of the town
