Discover 5 hidden attractions, cool sights, and unusual things to do in Białowieża (Poland). Don't miss out on these must-see attractions: Open Air Wooden Architecture of Rus' Population of Podlachia Museum in Białowieża, Bison Show Reserve, and St. Nicholas Orthodox Church. Also, be sure to include Skansen w Białowieży in your itinerary.
Below, you can find the list of the most amazing places you should visit in Białowieża (Podlasie).
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Open Air Wooden Architecture of Rus' Population of Podlachia Museum in Białowieża
Bialowieza open-air museum - a complex of wooden buildings of the Ruthenian population of Podlasie, is a private open-air museum located in Bialowieza, on the site of the former village of Kropiwnik, destroyed by the Nazis during World War II.
Address: Ul. Zastawa 66B, Białowieża
Bison Show Reserve
Bison show reserve - an animal sanctuary created in the interwar period in 1929; it was the first step towards the restitution of the vanishing bison. Located on provincial road no. 689 connecting Białowieża with Hajnówka, on the premises of the Zwierzyniec Forest Inspectorate in the Białowieża Primeval Forest.
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church
St. Nicholas Church - an Orthodox parish church located on Sportowa Street in Białowieża. It belongs to Hajnówka deanery of Warsaw-Bielsaw Diocese of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
Address: Sportowa 9, 17-230 Białowieża
Skansen w Białowieży
History museum, Museum
Address: ul. Zastawa 66b, 17-230 Bialowieza
Cerkiew pw. Świętych Cyryla i Metodego
The Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius is an Orthodox cemetery church in Bialowieza. It belongs to the parish of St. Nicholas in Białowieża, in the Hajnówka decanate of the Warsaw-Bielsian Diocese of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church.
Erected in 1873 on a rectangular plan. It has a wooden, log, oriented, planked construction. In the front a porch. Presbytery is smaller than the nave, closed trilaterally, with the sacristy on the south side. Metal roofs of the church. The hipped tent roof over the nave, topped with the metal tower with spherical cupola.
The church was entered in the register of monuments on October 19, 1977 under the number A-551.
In the parish cemetery, which exists since the 18th century, the following are buried: Nikolai Abramov - captain, father of the writer Igor Neverli, Jozef Bulak-Balachowicz - Belarusian military officer, general, Jerzy Gniewszew - academic teacher, commander of the Navy, Janusz Bogdan Falinski - geobotanist, D. - architectural engineer, ecological activist, journalist, photographer, Michał Polech - brigadier general, pilot, Zdzisław Pucek - zoologist, long-term director of the Mammal Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Białowieża, Rev. Mitrat Klaudiusz Puszkarski - longtime priest of the Orthodox parish in Bialowieza