It lies approximately 29 km (18 mi) east of the regional capital Kraków, on the National Road number 79.

[1] The village lies east of Kraków at the left side of Wisła, it is located on a high plain towering over a point bar of the river.

In the Middle Ages the village was a property of the Cracow's bishops.

There was a marketplace initiated in vicinity of a ferring place through the Wisła river where people from the Niepołomice Forest, lived on the right bank of the river exchanged goods for agricultural commodities from the Proszowice Land.

The marketplace had been established in a region called Wawrzeńczyce and after the name covered whole the current village.