Inowłódz

Inowłódz is a town in Tomaszów County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland, and the seat of the gmina of the same name. It lies about 15 kilometres east of Tomaszów Mazowiecki and 60 kilometres south-east of Łódź, at a crossing of the Pilica river, which marks the old border between Lesser Poland and the Łęczyca Land. It was first mentioned in documents in 1145 and is counted among the oldest towns in Poland. It received Magdeburg rights in the mid-fourteenth century, was walled in 1370 and had a castle, then lost its prosperity in the Swedish invasion of the 1650s and its town charter in 1870. In the late nineteenth century it became a spa, and its church of Saint Giles is thought to date back to the eleventh century.