Best Traditional Belarusian Minsk Independence Avenue Mir Castle UNESCO 2000 Late Gothic Nesvizh UNESCO 2005 Radziwiłł 12 Generations Brest Fortress Hero 1965 Białowieża UNESCO 1979 European Bison and Belarus Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Belarus travel | Europe destinations Best Traditional Belarusian Minsk Independence Avenue Mir Castle UNESCO 2000 Late Gothic Nesvizh UNESCO 2005 Radziwiłł 12 Generations Brest Fortress Hero 1965 Białowieża UNESCO 1979 European Bison and Belarus Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Belarusian - 207,600 km² and roughly 9 million people, landlocked between Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, and Ukraine, with 4 UNESCO World Heritage Sites and a flat, lake-laced landscape that retains Europe's last fragments of primeval lowland forest. Major destinations: Minsk capital - Independence Avenue Stalinist ensemble running 15 km through the rebuilt postwar core, KGB Headquarters on the avenue, and the Belarusian State Museum of the Great Patriotic War tracing the 1941-1944 occupation that killed roughly a quarter of the population , Mir Castle UNESCO 2000 - late 15th-century late Gothic stronghold of the Ilinich family expanded with a Renaissance palace addition under t...