Greece to Catalonia and Poland

The city is located at the hub of important international overland routes, which, together with Bialystok's neighbouring on Belarus, Lithuania and Russia, fosters the development of economic and cultural relations with both eastern and western European countries.
Within several dozens of kilometers away from Bialystok are beautiful woods of Bialowieża Primeval Forest and the European-class unique Biebrza and Narew National Parks. The city boasts its leafy parks, trimmed squares and green spaces. The specific cultural climate of the city is mainly due to the centuries-old multinational and multireligious tradition whose traces make for the quintessential tiurist attraction Bialystok undoubtedly is.