 Kunów was granted Magdeburg rights in 1365, stripped of them in 1867, to again become a town in 1990.It is located along the European route E371, and the town has a rail station on the Skarżysko-Kamienna – Sandomierz line.In the early Middle Ages Kunów belonged to the Archbishops of Kraków, who had a manor house here.