PICTURESQUE VILLAGE WHERE ALL LIVE ON THE SAME LONG ROAD
Sułoszowa, a Polish village of around 6,000 people, less than 30 km northwest of Kraków, has been called “Noodleville” because of its unusual geography.
The village has been around for many years, but it only recently has started attracting international attention after bird’s eye photos and videos have gone viral on social media. Millions of people around the world have been fascinated by the unusual layout of the rural town – hundreds of houses on either side of a single street, snaking through equally long, parallel agricultural fields, as far as the eye can see.
Every one of its 5,819 inhabitants – according to a 2017 census – lives on the same street, which stretches for over nine kilometers.
Aerial photos of Sułoszowa originally went viral in Poland back in 2021, but this month a drone-shot video of the Polish village gained international attention. People were amazed by the unique look of the village surrounded on all sides by strips of agricultural land as well as by the fact that all residents just built their homes along the one main road, instead of expanding outwards.
The linear, single-street layout of Sułoszowa was labeled “bizarre” by major international news media, but to the Poles, it is just a typical Polish village. Having a single road passing through a village is not at all unusual in the central European country, but the aerial viewpoint certainly makes it look more dramatic.
“It is the normal layout of a traditional village; only this village is really long,” one person commented.
“Someone explain to me why this is an unusual arrangement. Ordinary street,” another Pole wrote.
While having a single street may not be that uncommon for European villages, Sułoszowa’s location in the middle of its natural geometric pattern of agricultural fields is definitely not something you see every day. Some have gone so far as to compare it to Italy’s beautiful Tuscany countryside.
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