In the unique European village where all 6,000 inhabitants live in the same street

A Picture postcard village in Poland Perhaps the dream of an extrovert – or the worst nightmare of an introvert – is because all 6,000 of his residents live and work on the same stretch.

Sułoszowa, located around 29 km northwest of the regional capital Krakow, is the home of a complicated patchwork of green and golden fields and a cluster of modest houses with red and blue roofs.

Although life in the seemingly ordinary village is described by the locals as ‘slow and fairly quiet’, Sułoszowa has In recent years I have seen an increase in tourism because of the fairly unique layout.

A single road, one of the longest in Poland about nine kilometers, runs through the enormous green space – where all 6,000 residents live, shop and work.

From the eye of a birds, the winding network of fields and linear roads of the village look like a leaf, as noted by Katarzyna Bieda of the Gmina Sułoszowa Council.

She told the Explicitly: ‘Sułoszowa is immersed in nature with many forests and fields. These fields have made us famous all over the world thanks to drone photos in which our fields around the main street look a bit like a leaf. ‘

About why the city was built around a single road, Bieda explained: “The One Street -thing comes from the past, while it was easier for people to live in one street, especially because of road communication.”

Millions of times posted and shared online by biological users of social media, tourists have since come to the village to see his colorful sweeping firsthand.

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Local shop owner, Edyta, said: “I saw the aerial photo on the internet and I know people are talking about us, and I am not so surprised, it’s a wonderful view.”

‘There is a good sense of community here. We have strawberry days where we all come together and taste the new crops and play live music. We also have potato days where we do the same. ‘

However, she added: ‘But people like to gossip. And everyone knows everyone. ‘

Another resident, local tractor driver Marian Gęgotek, said: “Life here is slow and quite quiet, but I like it. Until I saw the photos from above, I didn’t really appreciate how nice it is here. ‘

The sleepy village, which was founded in the 16th century by an aristocratic army officer, was isolated from other villages through long pieces of empty road.

Although the extraordinary structure can initially attract visitors, Sułoszowa has become something of a hotbed for tourism, where visitors flowed to explore local cliffs, cans and more than 400 caves every year.

Dubbeds a ‘Little Tuscany’, on one end of the village, is a dramatic rock formation under which a 14th castle is with ‘to-die-for view’ of the local countryside.

There is also the ‘Bludgeon of Hercules’, a 98-foot high limestone column that pushes in the air.

One of the attractions is the so -called trail of the nests of the Eagles, a series of fortifications that extend from Krakow to the holy city of Czestochowa at 100 miles away.

But despite the crowd of tourists who descend in the village, more and more are leaving the younger inhabitants.

One of the oldest inhabitants of the village, the 74-year-old Stanisław whose house is directly under a towering rock of sandstone, said: “I wouldn’t call it idyllic here.

‘The young people go abroad or to large cities for work. And those who are here race with their cars and motorbikes up and down on the street outside my house.

“It’s unbearable. Sundays are the worst, because then we get all the tourists who stare through my window. ‘

Without a local pub, and with the village restaurant that closes around 5 p.m., when they do not racing on top of each other, the ‘young people’ often go to Clubapogum in the neighboring village of Trzyciąbed, 6.5 miles away.

For the rest of the village, the local community center next to the ‘Strawberry and Potatoes Days’ has a normal ‘club for seniors’.

Local non Jolanta from the 14th-century holy heart of the village of the church of Jesus said: “The senior club of the village is a great place that buzzing activities.”

She added: ‘I think the reason our village is such a hit is because people here take good care of their fields, this is the way it looks so nice, the fields are being cultivated.

“And it is great to walk among them and enjoy the countryside and the silence, you are almost guaranteed to see what deer and other wild animals see.”

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