Żarnowiec lies on the Pilica river, in the north-eastern part of Silesia. This place has a very interesting history. The present-day village was once a town until the Russian repression after the January Uprising. Żarnowiec is also an example of “a wandering settlement”, which changed its location in the fourteenth century. Its urban layout comes from the time, when it was founded again as a town by Casimir the Great.