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Bison Reserve
If you don't have time for a guided tour of the SPA, get a close look at some of the wildlife in the Bison Reserve, a park where animals typical of the puszcza, including bison, elks, wild boar, wolves, stags and roe deer, are kept in large, ranch-style enclosures. You can also see the żubroń, a cross between a bison and cow, which has been bred so successfully in Białowieża that it is even larger than the bison itself, reaching up to 1200kg.
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Natural History Museum
The site of the tsar's palace (which was burnt to the ground by retreating Nazis in 1944) is now occupied by the Natural History Museum . The museum features exhibitions relating to the flora and fauna of the park (mostly forest scenes with stuffed animals and a collection of plants), the park's history, and the archaeology and ethnography of the region.
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Park Pałacowy
At the end of the 19th century, Park Pałacowy was laid out around a splendid palace built for the Russian tsar in 1894 on the site of an ancient royal hunting lodge once used by Polish kings. The Russian Orthodox Church, outside the eastern entrance to the park, was built at the same time. The southern entrance to Park Pałacowy, beside the PTTK office, leads across a fish pond past a stone obelisk, which commemorates a bison hunt led by King August III Saxon in 1752.
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Royal Oaks
About 3km north of the Bison Reserve are the Royal Oaks , a score of ancient trees, some over four centuries old. There's a short walking trail that winds its way among them. Each of the trees is named after a Lithuanian or Polish monarch; the biggest of the lot is Stefan Batory, 5.1m in circumference, 40m tall and 450 years old.
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Strictly Protected Area
Dating from 1921, the Strictly Protected Area is the oldest section of the national park, covering an area of around 4750 hectares, bordered to the north and west by the marshy Hwożna and Narewka Rivers, and to the east by the Bielawiezskaja Primeval Forest National Park in Belarus.
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