Attractions and Places To See around gmina Hajnówka - Top 20

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This section is perfect as a hub from which you can branch off onto several other routes. It's perfect for a start to get into a rhythm, warm up, test your average, or just for a relaxing ride. The ending can be a mixed bag. If you're having a crisis and the weather isn't cooperating, it can drag on forever.

The Royal Oak Trail in the Stara Białowieża forest is a picturesque educational trail leading through the former settlement, where archaeological research indicates the original Białowieża was founded. A wooden footbridge winds through ancient oak trees named after Polish and Lithuanian kings, creating a unique blend of history and nature.

Places of Power are places with a very large concentration of positive charges, which have a beneficial effect on the body. For humans, it is felt as a form of subtle vibration. Sensitive people, subjected to its effects, are full of vigour, rest faster and feel greater contact with nature. The place of power in branch 495 was discovered by accident in January 1993 by three people from Białowieża: Sergiusz Tarasiewicz, Borys Rusko, Piotr Bajko, who were looking for a small monument commemorating the death of a worker repairing the nearby Hajnówka-Białowieża railway line. It was destroyed by the Germans in 1944. The discoverers were enchanted by the positive feelings they experienced there. In the spring of 1994, the area was examined by the famous dowser and geomancer Leszek Matela. He classified the find as a so-called Place of Power. The radiation recorded here is significantly increased in relation to the surroundings. In September 1994, the dowser and bioenergotherapist Andrzej Ciupek confirmed the results of earlier studies. He classified the area as a place with a stronger effect than Jasna Góra, which he had previously examined, as well as its Orthodox counterpart, Święta Góra Grabarka. It is believed that it was a place of pagan worship, as evidenced by the cleverly arranged stone circle. A now forgotten legend says that in prehistory there was a hidden place in the Forest, where initiated people gathered to use their power and the power of stones to stop enemies approaching settlements hidden in the Forest. The glade is located in the Białowieża Forest District, in section 495. It is about 0.5 km from Białowieża. A trail of about 4 km leads to the place of power. There is a parking lot here and railway tracks unused by trains. During the tourist season, handcars run on them. e-pust.pl/pearls-forest/miejsce-mocy

The Palace Park was established after 1895 as an integral part of the private hunting residence of the Russian tsars, built in the years 1889-1894. The name of the park "Palace" refers to the most important building, this residence, which was the tsar's palace (it burned down in 1944 and was finally demolished in 1962). The palace was accompanied by a complex of other buildings. Some of them were intended for the needs of the court and the tsar's service: the Orthodox church, the Drivers' House, the Bath House, the Management House, the stable house, the Świcki House, the Marshal's House, the Jegierski House. The remaining buildings were of an economic and industrial nature: the Cossack stable, the arsenal, the mill, the power plant, the barn, the garages. This hunting residence was surrounded by a park of over 50 hectares. The park was designed by Walerian Kronenberg (1859-1934), one of the most outstanding and fashionable designers of garden and park layouts from the turn of the century. He also designed over 300 larger and smaller parks in Poland, Lithuania, Russia and Crimea. In Warsaw alone, Kronenberg designed, among others, the Horse Racing Grounds and Agricola. bpn.com.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32

The Palace Park located in Białowieża was established at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries around the hunting residence of the Russian tsars, built in the years 1889–1894. Its area is approx. 50 ha. The main building of this residence was the palace, which burned down in 1944. Only the so-called kitchen gate survived. The buildings that once accompanied the tsar's palace have also survived: the Management House, the Marshal's House, the Jegierski House, the Drivers' House, the Bath House. In the place where the palace once stood, today there is the Directorate, the Nature and Forest Museum and the BPN Guest Rooms. The park was designed in the English style, also called landscape style, by the famous planner - Walerian Kronenberg. Its characteristic feature is the free compositional assumptions, with the plant thread coming to the forefront. Against the background of compact trees, single trees and their small groups growing in the clearings look picturesque. Of the approximately 200 species of trees and shrubs planted here, nearly 90 have survived to this day. bpn.com.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=650&Itemid=280

The Royal Oak Trail is an educational trail located in the Stara Białowieża forest. The habit of the oaks and their clustered arrangement along the trail also indicates human intervention. The relatively short, approximately 32-meter-tall trees are nearly 10 meters shorter than the oaks that have always grown in a dense stand. This means they were planted by human hands as park trees near a manor house that once stood here. One legend says they were planted at the behest of King Sigismund the Old. A wooden footbridge leads along the trail, equipped with plaques describing the oaks, named after Polish and Lithuanian rulers who ruled the forest. Walking the trail offers the opportunity not only to experience nature but also to deepen your historical knowledge. The author and initiator of this project was Jacek Wysmułek, a forester from the Białowieża Forest District. Back in 1976, he proposed protecting the entire area and creating a historical educational trail. The footbridge is wheelchair-accessible and features additional Braille signs. A road connecting Białowieża with Narewka runs parallel to the footbridge. This road leads to the Siemianówka Reservoir. Approximately 1.5 km north of this site (in section 281 - yellow tourist trail) lie the remains of the foundations of another hunting castle, likely built by the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Gediminas. The Royal Oak Trail is leased to a separate private company responsible for maintaining the trail and maintaining the cleanliness of the grounds. The company charges an admission fee. e-puszcza.pl/pearls-forest/szlak-debow-krolewskich-perelka-puszczy

The road is light, easy and pleasant. Unfortunately, for me such a long straight section is very tiring. Nevertheless, it is better to take this path than the asphalt road to Hajnówka.