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National parks
Białowieża
Białowieża National Park (say "byah-wo-VYEH-zhah") in far eastern Poland protects the best-preserved part of the Białowieża Forest, one of the last large fragments of the primeval lowland forest that once covered much of Europe. It is the…
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Białowieża
The Białowieski Express looks like a little train, but it runs on tarmac: a road-going locomotive pulling a covered carriage that takes up to 30 people on a tour of Białowieża village and the edge of the primeval forest. The highlight is t…
National parks
Białowieża
The Strict Protection Area of Białowieża National Park is the most valuable part of the Białowieża Forest – a natural forest that nobody planted and where no forestry has been practised for over a century. More than 6,059 ha are under stri…
Gardens
Białowieża
All that remains of the tsars' palace in Białowieża is a red-brick kitchen gate, but the park that surrounded it has survived almost intact. The Palace Park was laid out around 1900 around the hunting residence of the Russian tsars; today…
Hiking & tourist trails
Białowieża
The red markers of the Podlaskie Stork Trail lead cyclists through a land where storks nest in almost every village – from Lake Hańcza and the viaducts of Stańczyki to the Białowieża Forest. Work on the trail began in 2002; it links four n…
Museums
Białowieża
In a cottage built in 1836 and moved to Budy from near Kleszczele, a wooden chimney still works – according to its owners, the only one of its kind preserved and in use in Poland. The "Sioło Budy" open-air museum is a small farmstead on th…
Hiking & tourist trails
Białowieża
In the Stara Białowieża forest tract, about a kilometre from Pogorzelce, wooden boardwalks lead between ancient oaks, each named after a Polish king, a Lithuanian grand duke or a queen. This is the Trail of the Royal Oaks and Lithuanian Du…