- Conference party: 100 PLN
- Excursion to special places in Bialystok City with a professional guide (included in the basic fee).
Bialystok is the largest city in northeastern Poland and the capital of the Podlaskie Province. Around 32% of the city is occupied by parks, squares, and forest preserves, which creates a unique and healthy climate. We excursion will cover (see map below; orange icons with a star):
- Branicki Palace, a historical edifice and 9.7-ha (24 acres) park in Bialystok. It was developed on the site of an earlier building in the first half of the eighteenth century by Jan Klemens Branicki, a wealthy Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth hetman, into a residence suitable for a man whose ambition was to be elected king of Poland. The palace complex with gardens, pavilions, sculptures, outbuildings and other structures, and the city with churches, city hall, and monastery, all built almost at the same time according to French models was the reason why the city was known in the eighteenth century as Versailles of Podlaskie (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82ystok#Culture_and_tourism).
- The Planty Park, a 14.94-ha (36.9 acres) park created between 1930 and 1938, under the auspices of the then Voivode Kościałkowskiego Mariana Zyndrama in the areas adjacent to Branicki Palace. The modernist composition of the park was designed by Stanislav Gralla (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bia%C5%82ystok#Culture_and_tourism).
- Town Hall (Kosciuszko square).
- Catholic Cathedral.
