Almost 6.000 people, one street.
Sułoszowa, in southern Poland, has no central square or parallel neighborhoods. It has a road about 9 kilometers long and houses lined up on both sides, forming a long row that stretches as far as the eye can see. The village is barely about 150 meters wide and has around 1.600 properties. From a drone, it looks like a patchwork of crops crossed by a zipper.
But the most curious thing lies behind each house. Every home sits beside a long, narrow plot that stretches into the fields. So all you have to do is step out the door to be practically on your own land.
This curious layout has a history stretching back centuries. The first mentions of Sułoszowa in documents date back to the 14th century.
The village is about 36 kilometers from Kraków, within Ojcowski National Park, famous for its limestone formations. Its landscapes have even earned it the nickname Little Tuscany.
And perhaps living here has another particularity: because the houses are concentrated along the same road, almost all the neighbors know one another. An elongated community where it’s hard to go unnoticed.
Would you live somewhere where all your neighbors are lined up in a row?