THE MONASTERY

The Monastery of the Annunciation in Supraśl also know as the Supraśl Lavra is a monastery in the Podlasie Voivodship.
Boguslaw

SYNAGOQUE inTYKOCIN

The synagoque in Tykocin, a village in the province of Bialystok, is an early Baroque masonry synagoque which was build in 1624 and restored between 1974 and 1978. The synagoque is now used as a museum. Tykocin is located 45 minutes from Bialystok.

Boguslaw

Cathedral

This is now the Cathedral. This beautiful neogothic church was built at the beginning of XX century by project of Jozef Pius Dziekonski. This church is very beautiful inside. There are too great stained glass windows. I think that the history of St. Fara Church is very interesting. In 19th century Poland was annexed by Prussia, Russia and Austria. Bialystok belonged to Russians. Polish people couldn`t build anything without Russians` permission... In 1899, after 39 year waiting period, city dwellers received a permit to build a little annexe to an old church in Bialystok...Later it turned out that this tiny annexe is many times as big as the main church. It is a "solid comment" on persecution that took place in Poland in 19th century... The "red" church this is annexe, the "white".... this is the main church. Now the church is the Cathedrale.
Magdalena Bartnicka, Nela Martonik

Narwiański Park Narodowy

The Narew National Park is located in the north-east of Poland and occupies a total area of 6810 ha. The Park was established on July 22, 1996 and occupies a part of the Narew valley between Suraz and Rzedziany. The park’s office is located in Kurowo in an antique manor house surrounded by an old rural park with numerous nature monuments.

The aim of the establishment of the Narew National Park was to protect the swampy Narew valley and its unique anastomosing river-system with richness of flora and fauna. Widespread, highly complicated systems of river channels have lead to the formation of a vast wetland ecosystem that nearly fills the entire valley bottom and forms a mosaic of flood plains, swamps and sandy mounds.

In total, 58 plants communities are found in the area. Marsh plants, mainly reed and pendulous sedge but also a huge number of aquatic plants dominate this area. Willows and beech-trees are found at the edges of the valley. More than 650 species of vascular plants represent the flora of the Park (including many protected species). The vegetation of the NNP is rich in species being under strict protection, e.g. Siberian iris, Greek valerian, common sundew, gladiolus, superb pink and orchids.

The Narew National Park and its buffer zones are a core bird life area of European importance. About 203 species of birds live in the various ecosystems. Moreover, the Narew valley is an important stop over for many migrating birds and provides excellent resting sites, particularly during spring time. Several of these species are threatened, including bittern, Montagu's harrier, great snipe, curlew, spotted crake, little crake, and aquatic warbler. The emblem of the National Park is the marsh harrier. Due to the unique diversity of the flora and fauna in the Narew National Park this area is an important site regarding the European Network of Natura 2000.

The Narew National Park is inhabited by 40 species of mammals, of witch the most characteristic ones - beaver and other are connected with water or marshy areas. The visitors can also meet elk, roe deer, wild boar, musk-rat, fox, raccoon dog, weasel, ermine, American mink, stone marten and others. Waters of the Narew River are inhabited by fish species including: pike, wels, roach, common bream, burbot and ide.

Esperanto

Ludvic Lazarus Zamenhof

Esperanto derives its name from Doktoro Esperanto, the pseudonym under witch L.L Zamenchof published the first book of Esperanto the Unua Libro in 1887. The word esperanto means 'one who hopes' Zamenhof's goal was to create an easy and flexible language that would serve as a universal second language to foster peace and international understanding. Zamenhof was born on December 15, 1859 in the town of Bialystok in Poland.
Rafal

Zamenhof's Square

Supraśl

Supraśl is a town located 16 km on northeast from Białystok. It's situated by the river, from which it gained its name, and surrounded by the Knyszyńska Forrest. Due to clearness of air, lack of heavy industry, unique climat and presence of valuable deposits of mineral waters is considered as good place to heal illnesses. It is also good place to sightseeing. The most important is orthodox Saint Mary monastery, founded in 16th century. The church was destroyed by the Nazis during the II WW, but recently i was finally rebuilded. While being around, it's necessary to enter the museum of orthodox ikons - one of biggest and most unique collection in Poland. Another place worth to see is a Bucholtz's Palace. Nowadays in this art nouveau style building is placed fine arts high school.
You can get to Supraśl by bus from Białystok
Andrew

Mirosław

My name is Mirosław. I'm Polish. I live in Łapy. I'am 45 year old. I have wife and two children Paweł end Katarzyna. Paweł is 21 years old, and Katarzyna 18 years old. I like reading books, cooking and listening to pop music.

hello

Hello. My name is Nela. I am Poland. I live in Bialystok. I am 19 years old. I live with my parents. In my free time I like travelling, playing basketball, seeing film, going to the cinema and disco. I love living in Bialystok becouse it is a beautiful city.
I have long blond heir and blue eyes.
I have one dog and two cats.
I think I’ m a happy person but I’m a little shy.

Rafal

Hello! My name is Rafał, from Bialystok. I'm 20 years old. I like lisstening music, watching films. Sometimes I play in computer games. I like spending my free time in reading books. I hate mondays ;)

seba

My name is Sebastian. I live in Wasilków. I like playing fottball and books. I work in the offis

Wojtek

He, my name is Wojtek. I `m polish. I`m 21 years old. I live in bialystok
It has a population of 100.000 people. I like going to the cinema.
I like fishing and playing futbol.

Introducing Andrew

Hi, my name is Andrew and I'm 20 years old. I'm a first year advertisement student in my birth city - Białystok. In future, I'm going to study civil engineering. I have siblings - younger sister and older brother. I have various hobbys - I'm really keen on movies: i watch a lots of older and new productions. Swimming is another my big passion, that's because i used to be a pro swimmer in a high school. Currently I focus on looking for a work (i'm studying only during the weekends, so i have plenty of time to spare).