Tower of Kamyenyets
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The Tower of Kamyenyets, also called the White Tower, is the main landmark of the town of Kamyenyets in Belarus. The name Bielaja Vieža, which literally means White Tower or White Fortress in Belarusi
The tower of Kamyenyets today
Drawing by Napoleon Orda, 1876
A closeup of the brickwork
Białowieża Forest
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Białowieża Forest is a large forest complex and World Heritage Area straddling the border between Poland and Belarus. It is one of the last and the largest remaining parts of the immense primeval fore
Tower of Kamyenyets
…transliteration: Belaya Vezha), which literally means White Tower or White Fortress in Belarusian, presumably derives from the tower's proximity to the Belavezhskaya Pushcha Forest, but not from its color, which has been brick-red through the ages, never white. The first record in the chronicles about the foundation of the…
Fallen tree in the Białowieża Forest
Part of primaeval forest with a dead 450-year-old oak in Białowieża National Park, Poland
Bison in Białowieża Forest
Royal Oaks Trail, Białowieża Forest