For several centuries, Mstów was one of the most important towns in the north of Galicia, known primarily for the monastery of Canons Regular. The settlement received town privileges in 1279, as the marketplace at the crossing of the Warta river. The town developed on the right bank of the river on still a prelocation land. The old urban layout of Mstów with a market square and network of streets running out of its corners and not very old buildings have been preserved to this day,