Tripto Guide
Discover places worth seeing — from historic sites to mountain trails.
84 places
Tykocin
On the western outskirts of Tykocin, by the backwaters of the Narew, lies a settlement that owes its fame to birds: **Pentowo** is the European Stork Village, the only place in Poland holding this title, awarded in **2001** by the internat…
Augustów
The municipal beach in Augustów lies on Lake Necko, right where the Netta river leaves the lake — the same river that further on turns into the Augustów Canal. Founded in **1557** and named after King Sigismund Augustus, the town sits amon…
Białowieża
The Podlaskie Stork Trail is a cycling route of **412.5 km**, laid out in **2002** through the nesting heartlands of the white stork. It links four national parks — Białowieża, Narew, Biebrza and Wigry — and belongs to the international Gr…
Białystok
Kościuszko Market Square is the representative promenade and heart of Białystok, shaped under Hetman Jan Klemens Branicki, who gave it a new look after the town fire of **1753**. On the square rises the town hall with its clock tower, comp…
Białowieża
On the edge of the Białowieża Forest, in the village of Budy in the Białowieża commune, stands a 19th-century farmstead recreating the everyday life of the inhabitants of the forest's Podlaskan foreland. Anyone who understands the eastern…
Białowieża
Just north-west of Białowieża, between Pogorzelce and Teremiski, a wooden boardwalk leads through the Stara Białowieża wilderness — the place where the first settlement named Białowieża stood centuries ago. This is the **Trail of the Royal…
Kruszyniany
On the edge of the Knyszyn Forest, in the village of Kruszyniany known for its historic mosque, runs a Tatar agritourism farm with the Tatar Yurt restaurant. It is run by Dżenneta Bogdanowicz, and in the yard stand a genuine furnished yurt…
gmina Dubeninki
In the Podlaskie village of Bolcie, in the municipality of Wiżajny — around **7 km** from Żytkiejmy and **40 km** from Gołdap — the borders of Poland, Lithuania and Russia meet. This is one of the most north-easterly corners of the country…
Krynki
Krynki in the Podlasie region have a layout in their centre that you will not find in any other Polish small town: a roundabout occupying Jagiełło Square, from which **12 streets** radiate. A larger circular junction can only be found in P…
Jałówka
Among the forests of the Knyszyn Forest (Puszcza Knyszyńska), on the outskirts of Czarna Białostocka, lies the Czapielówka reservoir — a small body of water that serves as a bathing spot in summer and a destination for walkers and anglers…
Siemiatycze
In the southern part of Podlachia, in the valley of the Kamionka river, stretch the Siemiatycze reservoirs — three artificial ponds built in the 1970s that now form the town's main recreation area. On one of them operates a municipal swimm…
Tykocin
On the right bank of the Narew, amid the former marshes, the rebuilt castle brings back a fortress that once housed the most important arsenal of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The story begins in **1433**, when Jan Gasztołd received…