Strzyżów is one of the towns within the Strzyżowsko-Dynowskie Foothill, located 160 kilometres (99 miles) south-east of Kraków and 30 km from Rzeszów.

In 1279, in Buda (Hungary), the Pope's legate named Bishop Philip confirmed the abbot's right to take a special tax (a tithe) from Czudec and Strzyżów.

On 15 August 1769 the Bar Confederates made an oath in front of the painting of Immaculate Mary in Strzyżów, in the presence of Casimir Pulaski and Franciszek Trzecielski.

In 1796 the foundation of secular school strengthened town development as well as royal permission for organisation of four fairs a year from 1684.

[1] Following the German-Soviet invasion of Poland, which started World War II in September 1939, the town was occupied by Germany until 1944.