Sanok (in full The Royal Free City of Sanok, Polish: Krlewskie Wolne Miasto Sanok) is a town in south-eastern Poland with 41,400 inhabitants (1995).
Sanok contains an open air museum in the Biala Gora district, where specimens of every kind of country building from all the region’s main ethnic groups (Bojkowie, Lemkowie, Dolinianie and Pogorzanie) have been moved here and carefully reassembled in a skansen evoking rural everyday life in the 1800s.
Situated in the Subcarpathian Voivodship (since 1999), previously in Krosno Voivodship (1975-1998).
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