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Grabarka
Grabarka
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Description

One of the most beautiful centre of cult is Grabarka - a hill situated near Siemiatycze, where every year on the 18-19 of August the ceremony of Christ the Redeemer takes place.

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Nature

A pearl of nature renowned throughout Europe is the Puszcza Bialowieska – the last natural lowland forest on the continent, honoured with entries on both the List of Biosphere Reserves and the UNESCO list.

We also have superbly preserved broadleaved forests (Puszcza Kampinoska) and fir-beech forests (in the Swietokrzyskie Mountains). The Puszcza Romincka Forest in Mazuria has taiga-like features, while the Tucholskie Woods contain a cluster of 4,000 yews, unrivalled anywhere else in Europe, the oldest of the trees being 600 years old. Moreover, near Szczecin there is the beautiful, bright forest of Puszcza Bukowa.

Poland is also famous for its bogs and marshes, including the Biebrza Valley with the largest complex of low-lying peat bogs and the marshy valley of the Narew, Europe’s only anastomotic river, which seen from above resembles a loosely plaited braid. There is only one other river like this in the world: the Okawango river in Africa.

The Biebrza Marshes provide a haven for birds which is renowned worldwide. It is home to 271 species, including the endangered aquatic warbler and the ruff, the emblem of the Biebrza National Park.

The Biebrza Valley appears on the list of the world’s most valuable wetlands, protected under the international Ramsar convention. Other sites of distinction are the lakes of Luknajno, Oswin, Swidwie and Karas, the unique small lakes of the Stawy Milickie and the whole of the Slowinski National Park.

Water is one of Poland’s greatest riches. The often unappreciated queen, the Vistula, is the last of the great European rivers not to have been completely regulated.

Mazuria, the Suwalki region, Kashubia and the Drawskie, Wlodawskie and Lubuskie lake districts are lands rich in water, full of treasures such as the sapphire lobelia lakes of the Tucholskie Woods, the orange Lubygosc lake of Kashubia, the malachite lake Jaczno near Suwalki and the Radunsko Circle, beloved of canoeists, consisting of 10 post-glacial channel lakes joined in a necklace shape.

Pieniny Mountains

Pieniny MountainsThe whole calcareous range is stretching out for 30 km from the west to the east having no more than 5 km width. The most spectacular part of Pieniny is protected in the trans-border Pieninski National Park.

Tatra Mountains

Tatra MountainsTatra Mountains are the highest mountains in Poland and can be over seen from many places in the region called Podhale. lighted up by the morning sun actually constitutes the most beloved theme for Polish landscape photographers.

Wielkopolski National Park

Wielkopolski National ParkHere you will find hills (130 meters above sea level), sub glacial channels and lakes. Pine and mixed forests cover a major part of the park.

Swietokrzyski National Park

Swietokrzyski National ParkThe Swietokrzyskie Mountains, the oldest range in Poland, are formed from Paleozoic rocks. Particular attention should be drawn to the small, totally deforested areas, called goloborza.

The Sudetes

The SudetesFor both the experienced tourist-geologist and the collector of precious and semi-precious minerals the Sudetes are certainly the most interesting Polish mountains.

Wigierski National Park

Wigierski National ParkLake Wigry, one of the largest lakes in north-eastern Poland, is an important element of this park which also contains 25 smaller lakes interconnected by a network of rivers.

Ujscie Warty National Park

Ujscie Warty National ParkOpen meadows overgrown with alder and crisscrossed by a dense network of canals and old riverbeds are characteristic of the park landscape.

Slowinski National Park

Slowinski National ParkThe greatest attraction of this park stretching along the Baltic Sea coast are the shifting sand dunes, which, as they move, uncover dead tree stumps...

 

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