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Tykocin
Before World War II, Jews made up roughly half of Tykocin's population — about 2,000 people. On 25–26 August 1941 the Germans murdered about 2,500 people in the nearby Łopuchowo Forest — almost the entire local community. What remains is t…
Churches & monasteries
Tykocin
Two towers joined to the nave by semicircular arcades, pale yellow render and a red roof: this is the skyline anyone who has seen Tykocin from the Narew river will recognise. The late Baroque Holy Trinity Church closes the eastern side of…
Castles
Tykocin
Tykocin Castle (pronounced roughly "tih-KO-cheen") stands on the banks of the Narew River in northeastern Poland. It is a modern reconstruction, raised on the foundations of King Sigismund Augustus's 16th-century fortress, which once held…