Radom Audioguides

Radom is a city of about 190,000 people in the Masovian Voivodeship, a hundred kilometers south of Warsaw along the Mleczna River, and it operates without the self-consciousness that tourism brings to more visited Polish cities. The old town around the Rynek (market square) has the bones of a medieval settlement, with St. Wenceslaus Church and the early Gothic St. John the Baptist Church anchoring the historic core. Radom was a significant administrative center for the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and it was here in 1505 that the Sejm adopted the Nihil Novi constitution, a foundational document establishing that no new laws could be passed without the consent of the nobility.

The city's industrial history included armaments manufacturing, and the Radom Arms Factory, active from the interwar period, produced the wz.

35 anti-tank rifle that became a key weapon in the 1939 September Campaign. The legacy of this past is handled carefully in the Museum Broni (Weapons Museum) in the old town, which contextualizes the military production within the wider history of Polish independence and the campaigns to defend it. The occupation of Radom on September 8, 1939, just a week after the German invasion began, made it one of the first Polish cities to fall.