977, it also has a rail station (Bogoniowice - Ciężkowice), on a line which goes from Tarnów to the Slovak border crossing at Leluchów.

The history of Ciężkowice dates back to the year 1125, when in a document of Papal legate Gilles de Paris, the village is mentioned as a property of the Tyniec Benedictine Abbey.

Weekly fairs took place here every Wednesday, where local dairy products, clothes, salt, horses and Hungarian wines were sold.

Stone Town Nature Reserve (known in Polish as Rezerwat przyrody Skamieniałe Miasto) is located on the right bank of the Biała river, near Ciężkowice.

Among oak and pine forest there are several large sandstone rocks, shaped during the process of erosion.