The town is in Lesser Poland, and its history dates back to the early days of Polish statehood.

[2] It lies in the western part of the Sandomierz Basin, a few kilometres north of the Vistula, along the National Road Nr.

[3] The history of Połaniec dates back to the 11th century, when a gord was built near the spot where the Czarna flows into the Vistula.

In 1241 Połaniec was completely destroyed in the Mongol invasion of Poland, and near the local village of Tursko a battle took place with the invaders.

[4] At the beginning of the 16th century, Połaniec was burned to the ground by the Crimean Tatars, so that King Zygmunt Stary lowered the residents' taxes.

Połaniec had a large Jewish population, who were murdered in the Holocaust by the German occupiers during World War II.

In 1939, the Polish resistance organized a collection and shipping point for aid packages for Poles who had lost their homes and possessions in other regions, i.e. those arrested or expelled by the Germans and those fleeing Soviet-occupied eastern Poland.