Lowland and the Suwałki Lake District. The Podlaskie Province is the land of great forests preserved in its origin nature, river valleys, vast marshes and district lakes. Many architecture monuments make the province more attractive.
Interesting monuments are: temples of different religion, fortifications, buildings for living,mansion houses and palaces of different architecture styles, many historical urban systems preserved and sets of buildings of the small towns and monuments of technology.
One of the most valuable resources of the Podlaskie Province is the folk art.
Artists and folk creators make traditional ornaments and other forms of the handicraft. The most precious areas of the region in the respect of the nature
are protected in four national parks and three landscape parks.
Beautiful and varied landscape apart from the tourists attracts photographers and film makers. Among other things, the films under title “Nad Niemnem” and “Pan Tadeusz” have been made in the region.
The inhabitants of the province love the nature and respect its rules.
It is evident the best in case of the Biebrza River valley. In spite the flood when the river goes out of its bed for several kilometres every year then no alert is announced.
The hiking in the Podlaskie and the Suwałki Regions is made easier owing to 3000 kilometres well marked tourist routes. Some of them are in line with international routes and therefore the tourists possessing identification documents with them are able to continue their hiking to Lithuania.
Unforgettable impression bring : canoeing on the Czarna Hańcza River and the Narew River and rafting on the Biebrza River. More and more popular become the routes for horse-riding through the largest forests in Poland – the Augustów Forest and the Knyszyńska Forest.
The fans of strong impressions can make use of a balloon, plane and hang gliding. In the vicinity of the Biebrza River and the Bug River great impression makes the observation of swimming across the river herds of cows and the visit to the solitary bisons in the Białowieża Forest.
You are invited to the Podlaskie Province!
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