Suwalki

Suwalki is a metropolis in northeastern Poland with a populace of 69,210. It is the capital of Suwalki County and one of the most important centers of trade inside the Podlaskie Voivodeship. Suwalki is the most important metropolis and the capital of the ancient Suwalki Region. Until 1999 it become the capital of Suwalki Voivodeship. Suwalki is located about 30 kilometres from the southwestern Lithuanian border and offers its name to the Polish included vicinity known as Suwalki Landscape Park.

The Czarna Hancza river flows through the city. The vicinity of Suwalki have been populated with the aid of nearby Yotvingian and Prussian tribes for the reason that early Middle Ages. However, with the arrival of the Teutonic Order to Yotvingia, their lands had been conquered and remained in large part depopulated in the following centuries. The village turned into based by Camaldolese priests, who in 1667 have been granted the area surrounding the future town with the aid of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland John II Casimir. Soon later on the monastic order built its headquarters in Wigry, where a monastery and a church were built.