welcome to augustów

Augustów – between the world wars dubbed “The Venice of the North” – is situated in the western part of the Augustowska Forest, in the Augustowsko-Suwalskie Lake District. It is in its very heart, which makes it easy to access numerous attractions of the Podlassia Voivodeship – the Biebrzański and Wigierski National Parks, the Suwalski Landscape Park, the Borecka Forest and the Land of Great Massuria Lakes. Augustów owes its picturesque landscape to the Augustowska Forest and the surrounding lakes: Sajno, Necko, Białe, Rospuda, Studzieniczne and a dozen or so smaller ones. Most of them are interconnected by the Augustowski Canal, forming the well-known water route. The 81 square kilometres of the town’s area is occupied by woods (35%) and water (26%).
A few major national roads run here. The most important one is the Via Baltica, which connects Scandinavia and the north of Russia with Central and Western Europe. The fact that Augustów is close to the national border with Lithuania, Belarus and Russia, facilitates the development of tourism.

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