SEVEN years after prices for private residence clubs and other fractional developments collapsed, the value of a small slice of paradise is still far from recovered. Sales last year began to pick up, hitting $516 million, but that is just a quarter of what it was in 2007, according to a recent report from Ragatz Associates, which tracks this market.
TarnÃ³w, city, MaÅopolskie wojewÃ³dztwo (province), southeastern Poland, near the confluence of the BiaÅa and Dunajec (a tributary of the Vistula) rivers. It is an industrial city, producing mainly chemicals, building materials, processed foods, and electrical machinery, and a rail junction on the KrakÃ³w-Lviv (Ukraine) rail line.
On the north Poland is bordered by the Baltic Sea, Russia, and Lithuania; on the east by Belarus and Ukraine; on the south by Slovakia and the Czech Republic; and on the west by Germany. Originally, the capital was Cracow (KrakÃ³w), but in 1611 it was moved to Warsaw (Warszawa), the current seat of government.