Białystok - The Eastern Poland city of delight!
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- This week I showcase a trip I took this year in my ongoing exploration of Poland, heading to the north east, I took in Białystok! Join me as I show you the sights and discover what this city has to offer :)
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My family is from Bailystok. They came to America early 1900s. It's very interesting. I live in Pennsylvania USA. 3rd generation.
Thank you for sharing 🙂 the more I explore this country the more wonder I find, will have some new travel content soon to share!
@@britinpoland2392 thank you for sharing. I've been back to Poland to visit but only to Krakow. Poland is beautiful. Come visit Pennsylvania too. I can show you around.
My maternal grandfather was born in bialystok and came to usa about 1912. He ultimately settled in New Jersey outside Philadelphia. We visited members of his family in bialystok in 2016.
My family came to America after the depression and things weren't that great here but they sold their farm in bialastock and settled in ambridge pa! My polish mom just died at 98 and grandma long gone but always loved my polish roots! Want to visit when war is over!
Ahhh thank you for the video. I've been to Białystok many many times due to my studies and work. It's nice to see familiar places I've walked and new ones that i definitely need to see! I love the landscape, the buildings and monuments. Best wishes to you Richard :)
Thank you for the lovely comment, I for sure am not done with this city, there are a few things I have missed so definitely have cause to go back one day 😊
Living in UK now, in London to exact, for almost 2 decades. Memories are beautiful. Now a days Bialystok looks more colourful than I remember. Thanks
Kocham, kocham💕
Came here just to hear the pronunciation of the city. Thx
Great city and video, thanks
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video 😊
Never been to Bialystok. Thanks.
Moje miasto to białystok
Kchem... Kchem... The City has over 280 thousand inhabitants) Apart from that detail enjoyed your video)
A lesson that internet sources are not always perfect for such information 😅
However glad you enjoyed the video 😊
Lovely gentle video. Not in your face, not trying to 'prove anything.' Really nice...
Thank you, the only thing I try to prove in my videos is that Poland and it’s cities are worth the visit 😊
@@britinpoland2392 Very much so. You put that across well. Im English by blood, and only have some polish heritage maternally, but would love to visit places like Gdansk, and the tricity, I heard its nothing like regular PL.
@@tourzrap oh Gdańsk is very different from the rest of Poland, but then it’s been a ‘free city’ through much of history and was spared a lot of the destruction seen in other places, therefore preserving much of its medieval heritage, for sure a place that has something for everyone! I’d say better seen in the warmer months so you can enjoy the sea air more 😊
It’s also a good base to see places like Hel which are also well worth the visit in the area!
That's my hometown!!! Haven't been there for a decade! Luckily you didn't catch the 3rd half from the local football ground...
Like your program ;)
Happy to spark some memories and glad you enjoyed the video 😊
Fantastic video
Thank you for the kind words 😊
Poland is often stereotyped as being 100% Roman Catholic. Well, it's not. For example Białystok has always had a strongly "eastern" (kresowy) element composed of a mixture of cultures. You didn't mention that the Cathedral of St. Nicholas is Eastern Orthodox (as shown by the crosses on top of it), I think the biggest in Poland of this denomination. To this day Białystok is a centre of Belarusian and Russian minorities, in addition to Tartars and Ukrainians. And, the northeastern region of the country with Białystok as its capital - "Podlasie" in Polish - does have the English version, which is Podlachia (few people know this).
The locals in Bialystok make up a pretty homogenous group overall. The vast majority is catholic, some are orthodox, more and more are atheists (especially in the younger generations). Nobody really cares and I never noticed it affecting the vibe of the city. The people you hear speaking Ukrainian or Belarusian on the streets are pretty much all economic immigrants or tourists of some kind and they are present in every major Polish city nowadays.
@@The_Monolith The Podlachian voivodeship (province, of which Białystok is the capital) has about 1.2 million inhabitants, of whom some 200 thousand are Eastern Orthodox (ca 16%). Ca 20% of the inhabitants of Białystok are members of the Eastern Orthodox denomination. No other major Polish city comes even close to such a high proportion of non-Catholics. The city has 13 Eastern Orthodox churches, Poland's biggest one among them (Warsaw has 3). Most of those EO faithful have Belarusian or Ruthenian roots. A look at the map of religious denominations in Poland clearly shows that they are concentrated in the south/southeast of the voivodeship, reaching even more than a half of all inhabitants in some areas. The proportion of the ethnical/religious minority there is an almost unique situation in Poland, which is generally a country overwhelmingly Polish in ethnicity and Roman Catholic in religion. Białystok (Belostok) is a special Polish city for Belarusians in general, to which they feel close affinity, which is evidenced also by YT videos. And, last but not least, the "eastern" feature of Białystok/Podlachia is now being even reinforced with rising immigration to Poland from its eastern neighbouring countries. New EO churches are being built (a new one also completed recently in Warsaw).
@@varsoviaklimat2880 " No other major Polish city comes even close to such a high proportion of non-Catholics."
If you take into consideration atheists and agnostics (both non-Catholics), there are major cities that have higher proportions of non-Catholics.
"Most of those EO faithful have Belarusian or Ruthenian roots. A look at the map of religious denominations in Poland clearly shows that they are concentrated in the south/southeast of the voivodeship, reaching even more than a half of all inhabitants in some areas."
Completely irrelevant. All Slavs have mixed roots in the region, no matter if they are Catholic or Orthodox. You seem to imply that if someone comes from an EO family, that somehow makes him part of a different ethnic and cultural group. Not really. Most EO in Podlasie are just regular Polish folks. Many end up marrying Catholics. I myself know such couples.
Beautiful video with interesting storytelling! Is early October a good time to get such autumn views?
Thank you 😊
And yes, October I find is pretty kind in Poland, best time to see the leaves turn beautiful colours
If I’m not mistaken, the Bialystok area is the coldest one in Poland.
The Suwałki area is coldest, which is officially northern Podlachia (voivodeship), but local people have a separate identity, insisting that "Suwalszczyzna" (Suwałki Region) is different. Suwałki is even called Poland's "biegun zimna" (the pole of cold). But, Białystok is distinctive by its cold too (especially winter), even when compared to Warsaw, that is located only some 190 km to the southwest across the Podlachian/Mazovian plain.
Suwalki are the coldest ;)
But its like a...by bow from Bialystok...
@@oinkoink6092 Are you trying to say that Suwałki are not in the Białystok area?
@@jurekprzychodzen6454 Suwałki były kiedyś miastem wojewódzkim...ale tak samo kiedyś mięso było na kartki...
Cheers bro, my home city. At the moment I live in UK. I stuck here beacouse of covid etc.That was nice journey for me ;) thanks! no matter who rules the world, it is important that there are places in the world where we live in harmony. war is the ruler's decision, friendship is the decision of the people
Missing important tour point: Szkolna 17 in Starosielce.
Thanks for the assist! I totally needed a bit more time in this city 😅
xD
It might be worth noting that Zamenhof was actually Russian as Bialystok was then known as Belostok, it was part of the Russian empire at that time. There is actually a nice statue to him near the railway station in Boulogne-Sur-Mere in northern France. About thirty years ago, I spend a few hours in the evening in Bialystok waiting for an onward train to Augustow. I remember walking over the railway bridge at night when some Russians asked me the way to the market. I apologized and explained to them that I was foreign too and did not know where the market was. One of the ladies asked me where I was from and I said England-I can always remember their strange reaction on meeting an Englishman in the far east of Poland who spoke Russian, it might be more common today but thirty years ago...?
It might also be worth noting that both parts of the word Białystok decline-w Białymstoku. Anyway, a nice video, I should try and see the town properly some day.
Thank you for the extra insight!
This was a flash in the pan kind of visit and for sure I didn’t see all of what Bialystok has to offer 😅
Glad you still enjoyed the video!
Zgodnie z tą logiką, to wszyscy Polacy zamieszkujący teren zaboru rosyjskiego - byli Rosjanami. Lewi Zamenhof w rzeczywistości był Żydem, ale działał i tworzył w środowisku polskim, i za Polaka się uważał.
so by that logic indians living under the british rule were... british?