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Technical monuments
Augustów
The Augustów Canal (pronounced roughly "ow-GOOS-toof") is a 19th-century waterway in northeastern Poland that links the Vistula and Neman river basins, running from the Biebrza River through the lakes around Augustów to the Neman in Belaru…
Lakes
Augustów
Linguists trace the lake's name to the Yotvingian word methis, meaning "to throw", and a document from 1396 records it as Meten. Necko is a glacial ribbon lake that makes Augustów both a town and a resort: the town shore has beaches, prome…