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    Bargłów Kościelny
    A pole shrine with the figure of Saint John of Nepomuk. A mill from the mid-20th century.
     
     

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    Stara Kamionka
    A house from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries
     
     

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    Łabętnik
    A building from the early 20th century. Granaries from the early 20th century.
     
     

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    Kamienna Stara
    Saint Anne’s Church in Kamienna Stara. A smock mill built in 1901-1902.
     
     

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    Suchodolina
    A building which connects its residential and utility parts under the same roof. A shrine in a linden tree.
     
     

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    Jałówka
    Gable crowning in the form of two symmetrical latticework planks.A jamb window with frame-panel shutters, ornamented with a window head of the nalicznik type. A granary from the late 19th century of corner-notched log construction.
     
     

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    Hamulka
    A residential building typical of the region, connecting its residential and utility parts under the same roof.
     
     

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    Grabowo
    A residential building connected with a utility building, having simple vertical wall and gable formwork. Built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
     
     

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    Jaczno
    Wooden porch with six shaped posts supporting a pitched roof covered with sheet metal. An Orthodox church in the Holy Myrrh-Bearering Women’s cemetery from the third quarter of the 19th century.
     
     

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    Małowista
    A wide-front granary from the early 20th century, of corner-notched log wall construction, with an arcade supported by four posts, set on field stone foundations. A wide-front granary from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, with an arcade supported
     
     

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    Różanystok
    “Green Dacha” from the early 20th century
     
     

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    Kramkówka Duża
    House built in 1891. A soffit made in the 1930s, attached to the gable of a house from 1891.
     
     

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    Goniądz
    A house from the 1920s. A brick house with a wooden porch. Watermill.A wooden roadside cross from 1894.
     
     

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    Białousy
    A house from the 1920s.A smock mill built in the 1880s. A shrine from 1917, preserved in its original shape.
     
     

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    Trofimówka
    Veranda of a house from the Interwar Period. A wide-front granary from the 1920s, of corner-notched log wall construction, set on field-stone foundations.
     
     

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    Cieśnisk Wielki
    A building from the late 19th century connecting its residential and utility parts under the same roof.
     
     

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    Sitkowo
    A window with shutters, decorated with a window head and an edging. A house from the 1930s.
     
     

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    Kamienica
    A barn from the 1940s, with double-leaf door and two barn floors.
     
     

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    Kuplisk
    Top part of a cross made by Piotr Radkiewicz with ornamentation elements typical of this artist.
     
     

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    Łubianka
    A cross from 1943 and a pole shrine from the late 19th century.
     
     

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    Nowe Dolistowo
    A house-type shrine from the late 19th century.A house from the late 19th century, set on foundations made of field stones joined with mortar.
     
     

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    Stare Dolistowo
    A house from the early 20th century, with walls of corner-notched and vertical-post log construction, set on foundations made of field stones joined with mortar.A house from the 1920s, set on foundations made of field stones joined with mortar. A smock mi
     
     

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    Jaświły
    A building from the late 19th century, connecting its residential and utility (not entirely preserved) parts under the same roof.A barn window cut in a wall’s log.A part of the building’s inside, the so-called sacred corner.A porch with six poles of ornam
     
     

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    Bobrówka
    A house built in 1921, set on foundations made of stones and bricks.A Porch in one of the Interwar Period houses.
     
     

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    Zabiele
    A building in which a wooden residential part is connected with a stone utility part under the same roof. A smock mill built in 1928.
     
     

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    Dzięciołowo
    A smock mill from the early 20th century.
     
     

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    Korycin
    A veranda of interesting glazing arrangement, with arched top edges.
     
     

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    Zabrodzie
    A porch with six posts, ornamented with capitals at their top parts.
     
     

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    Laskowszczyzna
    A house from the 1930s, rested on foundations made of field stones joined with mortar.
     
     

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    Aulakowszczyzna
    A house from the 1930s, set on a high foundation made of field stones.A smock mill from 1930.
     
     

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    Wyłudki
    A house from the late 1920s, with a veranda and a mansard in the front wall.
     
     

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    Ostra Góra
    A house from the early 20th century.
     
     

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    Stok
    A cellar with a pitched roof covered with eternit.
     
     

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    Brody
    A pole shrine from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A wooden roadside cross and a blacksmith-made cross set in a granite plinth.
     
     

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    Krasne
    A school built in 1936. In each roof surface there is a mansard covered with a separate three-slope roof and lit by two or three windows. The house from 1920 is one of the few objects in the Biebrza gminas put in the Register of Historical Monuments.
     
     

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    Lipsk
    A building from 1947 adapted for the Regional Museum.
     
     

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    Konopczyn
    A pole shrine with a characteristic enlargement at the top. Inside the shrine – figure of Saint John of Nepomuk.
     
     

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    Sikory
    A manor from around 1770, renovated and reconstructed many times, being used as a school until recently.
     
     

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    Kulesze
    A house from the early 20th century, rested on foundations made of field stones joined with mortar.
     
     

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    Sobieski
    A house from the 1920s with a mansard in the front wall.
     
     

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    Mońki
    A roadside cross from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries with a shrine opening at the top, crowned with a small metal cross.
     
     

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    Przytulanka
    A roadside cross from the late 19th century with a shrine opening at the top, to insert a świątek. Horizontal crossbeams and decorative elements not preserved.
     
     

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    Chilmony
    A barn with its roof protruding on both sides of the door. It provided roof for the two rooms of usually storage functions.
     
     

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    Nowy Dwór
    A house from the 1920s, rested on foundations made of field stones joined with mortar. A barn of vertical-post log wall construction, with a characteristic thatched hip roof. Photograph from the early 1990s.
     
     

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    Bobra Wielka
    A watermill from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A two-story building, reconstructed a number of times, unused today.
     
     

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    Czerwonka
    A house from the late 19th century, set on foundations made of mortar-joined stones. Walls of corner-notched log construction, vertical planks of shaped edges nailed to the corners.
     
     

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    Suchowola
    A town over the Olszanka river. Founded in 16th century during the settlement of crown Nowodworce Forest. The name origin is connected with being founded on so called “dry root” (suchy korzeń), i.e. on a clear cutting
     
     

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    Domuraty
    A house from 1925, set on a high base made from mortar-joined field stones.
     
     

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    Ciemne
    A house shrine from the late 19th century, renovated multiple times. A house from the 1920s.
     
     

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    Olszanka
    A house from the 1920s of vertical-post log wall construction, bed timber rested on foundations made of field stones.
     
     

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    Grodzisk
    A house from 1925 with vertical-post log wall construction, rested on foundations made of mortar-joined field stones. Windows with shutters, decorated with window heads.
     
     

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    Rutkowszczyzna
    Window of a house from 1924, Polish-type jamb window, with typical panel arrangement.
     
     

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    Horodnianka
    A house from the Interwar Period of vertical-post log wall construction, set on stone foundations.
     
     

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    Chmielówka
    A wide-front granary built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. A wide-front granary built in the early 20th century, set on field stone foundations.
     
     

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    Dubasiewskie Kolonie
    A barn from the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, of vertical-post log wall construction.
     
     

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    Jaminy
    Saint Matthew’s Church built in the 1780s in Augustów, transported to its current location in the mid-19th century. A vicarage from the first half of the 19th century. A granary from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
     
     

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    Krasnoborki
    founded in 1506 by Fiedka Bohdanowicz Chreptowicz; in 16th-17th century a centre of Chreptowicz family properties.
     
     

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    Mogilnice
    A house from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, connecting its residential and utility parts under the same roof.A tobacco dryer from the 1950s. A shrine from 1838.
     
     

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    Lebiedzin
    A window with closed frame-panel shutters. Window head decorated with geometric and floral motifs.
     
     

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    Jagłowo
    A metal cross capping a wooden roadside cross, made at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
     
     

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    Giełczyn
    Church of the Visitation of Virgin Mary founded by Chryzanty Opacki in 1777, with a flèche added in the 19th century.
     
     

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    Trzcianne
    A residential building from the Interwar Period, with an eternite-covered pitched roof.
     
     

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    Zajki
    A window head decorated with geometric and floral motifs.
     
     

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    Szorce
    A window head decorated with geometric motifs in the form of three toothed strip ornaments.
     
     

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    Mroczki
    A veranda covered with a pitched roof. Below the roof, a triangular head decorated with formwork planks arranged in the rising sun motig.
     
     

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    Wilamówka
    A gable decorated with two soffits and an ornamented collar tie slat. Formwork planks nailed in the herringbone arrangement.
     
     

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    Laskowiec
    The parochial church of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus from 1928. Its massive cuboid pseudo-basilica body was improved by adding a bell tower at the front, which holds the antechapel on the ground floor and the choir on the first floor.
     
     

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    Brzeziny
    Cemetery chapel from the Interwar Period.
     
     

  • Landmarks

    Parish of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Bargłów Kościelny
    Parish of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Bargłów Kościelny was founded in 1544 by King Sigismund Augustus.
     
     

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    Roman Catholic cemetery in the parish of the Elevation of the Holy Cross, Bargłów Kościelny
    Roman Catholic cemetery in the parish of the Elevation of the Holy Cross, founded in the first half of the 19th century, on an irregular polygonal plan. Located in the south-western part of the town, on a small hill, with the area of over 2 ha. It has a c
     
     

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    The parish in Dąbrowa Białostocka (nowadays of St. Stanislaus the Bishop and Martyr)
    The parish in Dąbrowa Białostocka (nowadays of St. Stanislaus the Bishop and Martyr) was established in 1595. Sigismund III Vasa was the founder and the parish stayed under royal collation until the last Partition of Poland.
     
     

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    Jewish cemetery in Dąbrowa Białostocka
    Jewish cemetery, founded in the 19th century, built on the plan similar to a trapezium.
     
     

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    Basilica of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the monastery complex in Różanystok
    The most beautiful Baroque church in the Biebrza valley – Basilica of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Różanystok – stands among the fields.
     
     

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    Church of St. Anne in Kamienna Stara
    The oldest wooden church in Podlaskie Voivodeship has survived in Kamienna Stara.
     
     

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    Church of St. Agnes in Goniądz
    Church of St. Agnes in Goniądz is one of the oldest parishes by the Biebrza.
     
     

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    Chapel of St. Florian
    On a picturesque slope near the Church St. Agnes there is a small Chapel of St. Florian.
     
     

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    Chapel of the Holy Spirit in Goniądz
    In the burial cemetery by the road to Mońki one can see the Chapel of the Holy Spirit built of yellow brick.
     
     

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    Church of Our Lady of the Angels in Downary
    The Parish of Our Lady of the Angels in Downary has a short but interesting history.
     
     

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    Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Parish of St. Agnes in Goniądz
    Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Parish of St. Agnes in Goniądz, founded in early 19th century – consecrated in 1804. Plan of a irregular polygon, radial alley system, surrounded with fields.
     
     

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    Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Parish of St. George in Janów
    Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Parish of St. George in Janów, founded in early 19th century, spread after 1934 due to the efforts of Fr. Adam Ostrowski.
     
     

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    Jewish cemetery in Janów
    Jewish cemetery in Janów founded in late 19th century on a rectangular plan. Located in the northern part of the village, outside its buildings, among fields.
     
     

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    Church of St. John the Baptist in Brzozowa
    Church of St. John the Baptist in Brzozowa is located on the eastern edge of the village, near the bridge on the Brzozówka River – an eternal border between Lithuania and the Crown.
     
     

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    St. Lawrence church in Dolistowo Stare
    In small Dolistowo Stare the Church of St. Lawrence towers over the meadows of the Biebrza River.
     
     

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    Chapel of St. Florian in Dzięciołowo
    Chapel of St. Florian in Dzięciołowo is hidden in a forest growing right outside the village. It is administratively assigned to the parish in Jatwieź Duża.
     
     

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    Manor in Mikicin
    The first manor in Mikicin was built by Jan Sławski between the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries.
     
     

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    The Finding and the Exaltation of the Holy Cross church in Korycin
    The beginnings of the Parish of the Finding and Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Korycin are not well known. It is supposed that the first church already existed here in the 16th century.
     
     

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    Church of Our Lady of the Angels in Lipsk
    A Roman Catholic Parish (nowadays of Our Lady of the Angels) in Lipsk came into being in 1582. The first churches were made of wood, two of them bunt: the first in 1737, the second in 1857.
     
     

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    Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Parish of St. Mary of the Angels in Lipsk
    Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Parish of St. Mary of the Angels in Lipsk, founded in 1825 on a rectangular plan. Located on a hill, in the south-eastern part of the village.
     
     

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    Jewish cemetery in Lipsk
    Jewish cemetery in Lipsk founded in late 18th century on a rectangular plan similar to a square. Located in the north-eastern part of the town, now urbanised, on a small hill.
     
     

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    Church of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa and St. Casimir the Prince in Mońki
    Church of the Black Madonna of Częstochowa and St. Casimir the Prince in Mońki has a short, but turbulent history. The parish in a newly created and permanently developing railway settlement was established in 1920.
     
     

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    Manor in Sikory
    The village, initially named Niereśla-Sikory, was first mentioned in the 16th century. It was situated within the Knyszyn property, Kalinowo parish, and was owned by the gentry.
     
     

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    Churchyard cemetery of the Parish of St. John the Baptist in Nowy Dwór
    Churchyard cemetery of the Parish of St. John the Baptist in Nowy Dwór, founded in the 16th century on a plan of an irregular polygon. Located in Kościelna Street, in the northern frontage of the village square, in the centre of the village.
     
     

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    Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Parish of St. John the Baptist in Nowy Dwór
    Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Parish of St. John the Baptist in Nowy Dwór, founded in the beginning of the 19th century on the plan of a irregular polygon.
     
     

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    Cemetery of the Orthodox Parish of St. Nikolas in Nowy Dwór
    Cemetery of the Orthodox Parish of St. Nikolas in Nowy Dwór, founded in ca. 1804, expanded in the 1960s, built on a rectangular plan. Located in the western part of the village, by a road.
     
     

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    St. Peter and Paul the Apostles in Suchowola
    The first wooden Church of Peter and Paul the Apostles was built in Suchowola in 1791.
     
     

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    St. James the Apostle church in Sztabin
    From the parish in Krasnybór another parish was isolated: the Parish of James the Apostle in Sztabin, the centre of which is currently a Neo-Gothic church with an asymmetrical facade.
     
     

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    Cemetery chapel in Brzeziny
    A cemetery chapel in Brzeziny was erected in the burial cemetery in the 1920s, probably at the same time as the church in Laskowiec.
     
     

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    Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Giełczyn
    Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Giełczyn is from 1777. It was founded by Chryzanty Opacki, the castellan of Wizna.
     
     

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    Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Parish of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Giełczyn
    Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Parish of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary in Giełczyn, founded in early 19th century on a rectangular plan. Situated by the road from Gać to Giełczyn, about 1 km from the Giełczyn church.
     
     

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    Church of St. Peter and Paul the Apostles in Trzcianne
    The Parish of St. Peter and Paul the Apostles in Trzcianne must have been founded already in the 15th century, for in a document from 1496, signed by Alexander Jagiellon, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, there is a mention of the endowment of a church in Trzc
     
     

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    Cemetery of the Parish of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Trzcianne
    Cemetery of the Parish of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Trzcianne, founded in early 19th century – first burial in 1812. Built on a semi-rectangular plan. Situated approx. 300 m from the church, by the road from Trzcianne to Downary.
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Easter Eggs of Lipsk
    Lipsk Easter Eggs are made by putting a heated wax on the egg’s shell by a thin nail or a pin.
     
     

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    Two-warp cloth weaving of Janów
    Two-warp weaving, sometimes referred to as doublecloth, belongs to one of the most interesting phenomena of folk art.
     
     

  • Traditional Culinary

    Korycinski Cheese (Ser Koryciński Swojski)
    According to historical sources, the tradition of making the Koryciński reaches the second half of 17th or 18th century.
     
     

  • Traditional Culinary

    Klinek Dąbrowski Cheese
    Klinek cheese is a white cheese made of fresh cow milk. This delicacy already won a prize in the contest of the Marshall Office of Podlaskie Voivodeship: “Our Culinary Heritage – Regional Tastes”, while in 2013 it won the Pearl Prize on the Polagra Fair i
     
     

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    Korowaj lipski wedding cake and gąski – ceremonial wedding pastry
    Real wedding “Korowajs” are baked from yeast cake (flour, yeast, eggs, sugar and butter). Top part is decorated with traditional “plait”, corresponding to the bride’s plait, and motives of geese, cereal ears and birds’ nests symbolising prosperity and num
     
     

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    Baking tree cakes - Jan Kułak
    The speciality of Jan Kulak’s agrotourism farm is baking tree cakes. It is a tradition started over 30 years ago.
     
     

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    Tree cake – Andraka Confectionery Company
    The recipe, as well as manner of tree cakes preparation sticks to old traditions, from the days long past.
     
     

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    Tartar cuisine
    Elżbieta Muchla, lives with her family in Suchowola. She manages the Muslim Pilgrim House. She likes to tell about fate of Tartars in Poland, especially those living in Suchowola.
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    The Old Town of Kalvarija
    A nationally protected urban monument formed in the seventeenth-twentieth centuries. It obtained its current view in the nineteenth century when it was arranged according to the 1892 plan. The streets of the Old Town harmoniously merge with the hilly and
     
     

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    The Church of the Holy Virgin Mary in Kalvarija
    Designed by the famous Italian architect Enrico Marconi and built in 1838-1840. This brick church belongs to the period of the Romantic Historicism and is predominantly shaped in Classicism forms. The church was supplemented and enlarged with towers and l
     
     

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    The Complex of Synagogues in Kalvarija
    the only complex of three synagogues in Lithuania that has survived to the present day. It has a formation history of more than 200 years. The complex is composed of the Baroque summer and the Eclectic winter synagogues and a small, playful “brick-style”
     
     

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    The Historic Horse Post Station in Kalvarija
    built in 1825 as one of the horse exchange stations and places of rest, accommodation and catering for postmen at the St. Petersburg–Warsaw road. It consists of three buildings: the former administration building, lodging house and tavern. Renovation and
     
     

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    The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kalvarija
    reminds the short period (1795-1807) in Kalvarija‘s history when the town belonged to Prussia and people of this religious belief were settling here. Amongst the locals the church is more commonly known as “Kirche”. Renovation of the church is foreseen in
     
     

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    The remains of the Manor of Kalvarija
    A dwelling house, a watermill, a few farm-hand buildings, a pond and some fragments of the ancient cobbles. The initiation of the manor can be dated in 1655 when the family of Trobiai settled here. For a long time the settlement was known as Trobiai and o
     
     

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    The Mound of Papiliakalniai
    a thousand years old cultural monument with steep 22 meters high slopes. The northern side of the mound’s platform has a trench dug during the Second World War. The eastern side has a monument for the German soldiers of the 131st Infantry Division’s 432nd
     
     

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    The mound of Kampiniai
    about 1,5 thousand years old cultural monument built on a separate hill. The mound has moderate gradient slopes of 7 meters in height, an oval-shaped platform. It is a great viewpoint to explore the surroundings and take a panoramic picture.
     
     

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    The memorial complex for the fascist terror victims
    here in 1941 fascists shot and buried more than 100 of innocent people. The complex consists of an obelisk, a cross, a wall with the names of the victims and a stone sculpture – a shot heart in palms.
     
     

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    The memorial for the partisans of the Tauras district
    Here in 1990 were reburied the remains of the partisans of the Tauras district who fought for Lithuania's freedom and independence from 1945 to 1957. The memorial consists of a monument and a memorial wall.
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Trempiniai village and the hill of Koplyčkalnis
    3 kilometers north of Liubavas town there is a village of Trempiniai and its legendary hill of Koplyčkalnis. According to the local legends, in times of serfdom, a painting of the Mother of God was found on an oak tree branches on the hill. The lord of th
     
     

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    The miraculous spring in Deivoniškiai
    the village of Deivoniškiai has been famous with its miraculous spring yet from the nineteenth century. There are many exciting stories about the incredible recoveries that happened here. In 1991 on a hill near the spring there was built a chapel where on
     
     

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    The Royal Park of Kalvarija
    formed at the end of the nineteenth century on the southwestern part of the town as a place for recreation. The monument to the Lithuanian Mother which stands here is the only of the kind in Lithuania. It was built in 1935 and stood until 1950 when was de
     
     

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    The hill of Kačergai
    the hill shrouded with legends and myths to the south of Liubavas town. There is an observation tower on the top of the hill that provides wonderful views. From here you can see the churches of five parishes – Liubavas, Jelenavas, Vižainis, Akmenynai and
     
     

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    Zoo Park in Trakėnai
    a private zoo near Kalvarija where you can see lions, camels, llamas, mouflons, zebras, monkeys, Cameroon sheeps, Vietnam pigs, peccaries, porcupines, ostriches and many other exotic animals. Here you can ride ponies, do photo sessions, organize wedding a
     
     

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    The Museum of Ethnography of Kalvarija Region
    established in 1963 at Kalvarija‘s gymnasium. The museum possesses many interesting exhibits on the region‘s history, its most famous people, local customs and traditions.
     
     

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    The Museum of the Local Lore
    established in 1983 at Akmenynai primary school. The museum possesses valuable exhibits on the history of the local villages and the school. The main fund of the museum includes 940 exhibits, the subsidiary fund – 420
     
     

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    The Holy Trinity Church of Liubavas
    the first two churches of Liubavas burned during the world wars. The current church was built in 1956 when the brick chapel of a cemetery was enlarged with an adjoining wooden building. The church is famous with the painting of the Mother of God that has
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Wayside shrine for the “Titanic priest” Juozas Montvila
    built in commemoration of Juozas Montvila, the priest who served in Liubavas in 1910–1911 and died heroically in the Titanic disaster in 1912. After the Titanic hit an iceberg, the priest surrendered his seat in the lifeboat to remain on the sinking ship
     
     

  • Wooden archtektura

    St. Michael‘s Church in Kamšai
    the church, built in the Second World War, has the forms of a traditional residential house, a rectangular plan, a tower. The interior’s inventory came from an Orthodox church. The churchyard fence is made from wood and brick pillars.
     
     

  • Wooden archtektura

    The Church of St. Roch in Akmenynai
    the previous church was burned and destroyed in the Second World War. The new lovely wooden church was built in 1991 in the same place.
     
     

  • Wooden archtektura

    The Cross in the churchyard of the Holy Virgin Mary‘s Church in Kalvarija
    A nationally protected object of cultural heritage. Built in 1975, height – about 5 m. The ends of the cross branches are composed of large heart-shaped leaves. The crosspiece has a crown of rays and a chapel, the cross pole – a few chapel’s shelters. The
     
     

  • Lookouts

    Gazdai watermill
    situated in a quiet place by a former watermill and is intended for those who love peace, privacy and nature. The homestead ponds are planted with carp and trout.
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Camping
    By the Orija lake in the village of Orija (Kalvarija elderate, Kalvarija municipality) a 3rd class camping is planned to be built in the nearest future. The camping site area is about 3.5 ha.
     
     

  • Traditional Culinary

    Smakosz
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Knieja
     
     

  • Lookouts

    Vantage point on the trail Gugny-Barwik
    There are two vantage points and an observation platform on the walking trail Gugny-Barwik. The path is approximately 9.5 km long and begins at the parking lot near the forester’s lodge which can be reached by turning left after passing Dobarz (traveling
     
     

  • Lookouts

    Vantage point – Osowiec
    The vantage point is located at the beginning of a wooden footbridge along the Biebrza, near the headquarter of Biebrza National Park. Feeding and nesting on the water as well as in the nearby reeds birds can be observed from there.
     
     

  • Lookouts

    Vantage point of Ławki Swamp
    The vantage point located at Carska Droga, which connects Laskowiec and Goniądz, is approximately 35 km long. It overlooks a beautiful panorama of the largest open marshy area – Bagno Ławki.
     
     

  • Lookouts

    Observation deck in Goniądz
    The observation deck is located at Municipal Cultural Center (Rynek Street) on the spot of a former restaurant. It overlooks a beautiful view of the Biebrza Valley.
     
     

  • Lookouts

    Vantage point – Wilcza Góra
    The vantage point is located on a limestone hill called “Wilcza Góra” which overlooks a beautiful panorama of swamps of Basen Środkowy Biebrzy (Middle River Basin). Mooses can almost always be observed from this vantage point.
     
     

  • Lookouts

    Vantage point in Szuszalewo
    The vantage point is situated on the Szuszalewo Island 7km off Dąbrowa Białostocka. This vantage point overlooks a wonderful view of the Biebrza Valley. Forests and scrubs, which are scattered among the endless swamps, can be observed from there.
     
     

  • Landmarks

    mill Sitawka
    Watermill from the interwar period, currently in use, was built over the river Kumiałką. There is no artificial reservoir created as a place of recreation and relaxation for the residents of the municipality and surrounding areas.
     
     

  • Landmarks

    Osowiec-Twierdza
    Osowiec-fortress - a settlement in Poland, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in east Mońki, in the municipality of Goniadz on the river Biebrza.
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Białogrądy
    Białogrądy - a village in Poland, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in east Grajewo, in the municipality of Ghaziabad.
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Przechody
    Furniture stores - a village in Poland, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in east Grajewo, in the municipality of Ghaziabad.
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Sojczyn Grądowy
    Sojczyn hail - a village in Poland, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in east Grajewo, in the municipality of Ghaziabad.
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    State Farm Grzymkowskich
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Anna Bołonkowska, paintings on glass
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Maria Orzechowska, Christmas decorations, Easter
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Natalia Cybula, Handwritten work of art
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Pani Wioletta Goliczewska, handwritten work
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Ms. Maria Sztachelska, beverage products and crafts
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Agnieszka Łoś, Handicraft
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Dance group MAGUSIE
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Kolorowy Tabor
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Jan Tarnacki, poetry, epigrams, aphorisms
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Monika Agata Pietrewicz, drawing, painting
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Alicja Mierzejewska, crafts
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Jadwiga Solińska, folk artist
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Romuald Borawski, painting
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Elwira Rogińska, Drawing, Painting
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Priest Adam Grabowski
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Krystyna Galińska
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Józef Foltyński , Bas-relief in wood
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Jerzy Dmochowski, Embroidery
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Jadwiga Lenda
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Parish Church. NMP
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Panowie Jacek i Patryk Nowak
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Folk group “Kalinki”
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Zespół „Król Herod”
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Mali Szczuczyniacy
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    The Passion of Christ
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Maria Ramatowska
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Team "Szczuczyniacy"
     
     

  • Cultural richness

    Teresa Mastalerz
     
     

  • Traditional Culinary

    Krystyna Odolecka, Gastronomy, traditional culinary
     
     

  • Traditional Culinary

    Danuta Szklarzewska, traditional culinary
     
     

  • Traditional Culinary

    Justyna Dębińska, Baked cheese and more
     
     

  • Traditional Culinary

    Elżbieta Mitros, baking tree cakes
     
     

  • Lookouts

    white Hail
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    belfry Radziłów
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Branch church of St. Barbara
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Nativity of B.V.M. Parish Church
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Classic Revival manor house
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    building forge
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Rectorybuilding
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Russian soldiers' cemetery from the period of World War I in the pine
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Łęgowski family grave.
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Graves of fallen heroes at the Monte Cassino Battle from Łęgowski family
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    The Roman Catholic cemetery in Słucz
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    The Roman Catholic cemetery in Radziłów
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Grave of Biebrza Judge who died in 1842
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Grave of Julian Ahenbach – the last mayor of Radziłów
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Family grave from the second quarter of the 19th century
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    The cemetery in the form of a grave with a commemorative plaque on plot no. 1188 at Piękna street in the outskirts of the villag
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Stone chapel from the beginning of the 20th century in Konopki village.
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    The chapel is located in the middle of the field within Racibory
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Stone square chapel
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    The clergy house in Słucz was erected in 1912
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Clergy house barn erected at the beginning of the 20th century in Radziłów.
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Fence of St. Barbara church and the former cemetery, erected in 1875.
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Water mill in Karwowo built in 1947
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Electric mill at Łomżyńska street in Radziłów erected in 1954.
     
     

  • Lookouts

    Observation point – Rajgród – Okoniówek
     
     

  • Tourist attractions

    Góra Zamkowa mountain: View of the beautiful panorama of Rajgrodzkie Lake and its surroundings
     
     

  • Ecomuseums

    Easter Eggs Museum in Lipsk
    Lipsk near the Biebrza River is situated next to the Belarus boarder in neighborhood of Biebrza National Park. The town is undoubtedly an important centre of Easter egg tradition common for Pojezierze Suwalsko-Augustowskie.
     
     

  • Ecomuseums

    The Chamber of Regional Weavers Craft in Janow
    Janow is small town of 900 population in Podlasie. It is situated in a picturesque area on the edge of the Puszcza Knyszynska by the Kumialka River 50 km from Bialystok. Janow and its neighboring villages are famous for the decorative and unique double wa
     
     

 
 
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„Europejski Fundusz Rolny na rzecz Rozwoju Obszarów Wiejskich: Europa inwestująca w obszary wiejskie” Projekt współfinansowany ze środków Unii Europejskiej w ramach osi 4 LEADER Programu Rozwoju Obszarów Wiejskich na lata 2007-2013 Informacje opracowane przez Fundację Biebrzańską i LGD Biebrzański Dar Natury. Instytucja Zarządzająca Programem Rozwoju Obszarów Wiejskich na lata 2007-2013 – Minister Rolnictwa i Rozwoju Wsi