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Cultural advantages
Puszcza Białowieska got into the history mainly as an area of hunting. Thanks to it, it preserved its rich natural advantages to a considerable degree, because it was subject to a special protection for being the place of hunting...

The kings’ visits are today commemorated, for instance, with royal oak trees at the road from Białowieża to Narewka and the Stara Białowieża range, where the hunting manor house of Zygmunt Stary used to be located. Keepsakes of the hunting from the Sas times include a boulder in the Palace Park in Białowieża and an ornamental obelisk commemorating the hunting of August III. A wooden hunting manor house of the Tsar Alexander II continues to be the most splendid monument of the hunting architecture there. It can be also visited in the Palace Park. We can also see remains of the palace of the Tsar Alexander III damaged during the last war.

A special attention should be paid to the orthodox church in Białowieża with an original porcelain iconostas. Moreover, the museum of folk constructions and a well preserved group of wooden constructions at the main street can be also admired there.