Poronin
Poronin, is a village in southern Poland; from 1999 it formed part of Tatra County of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship.
Poronin sits on the confluence of rivers and, which gives rise to the river Biały Dunajec.
In the summers of 1913 and 1914 Vladimir Lenin and Nadezhda Krupskaya rented a holiday home in nearby Biały Dunajec and often stayed in a Poronin inn. The area formed part of Austria-Hungary at that time, and when World War I broke out in mid-1914 the Austrian authorities arrested Lenin on suspicion of spying for Russia, but deported him to Switzerland soon after.
During 1947-1990 there used to be a and a statue of Lenin. The statue was transferred to the Socialist Realism Art Gallery in the Kozłówka Palace complex in the Lublin Voivodeship.