The town is located on an electrified rail line from Tarnów towards Nowy Sącz and the Polish - Slovak border.

A document of papal legate Gilles de Paris tells us that the village had been given to the Tyniec Benedictine Abbey by Władysław Herman’s wife.

A prosperous salt mine operated here at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries, which caused King Casimir III the Great to grant Magdeburg rights to Tuchów in 1340.

Polish writer Jan Długosz wrote in his Chronicles about the development of local artisan guilds: flourmills, carpenters, blacksmiths and furriers.

The town hall and the market square were renovated, and a “Culture Centre” with a sewage treatment plant were built.

The arterial road of Lesser Poland Voivodeship, which links Tarnów with Krynica, runs past the town.