📜 Bieszczady — land of poloninas, wolves and silence
For centuries the Bieszczady Mountains were inhabited by the Boyko and Lemko peoples, who lived from shepherding and farming in the difficult mountain terrain. It is precisely to centuries of sheep grazing that the połoniny owe their treeless, grassy character. In the villages there remain wooden Orthodox churches, wayside shrines and old cemeteries.
In the 19th century, with the development of shipping and the need to secure the dangerous stretch of coast, a lighthouse was erected here — it was put into operation in 1838. It instantly became the symbol of the village and still serves seafarers to this day. After World War II Bieszczady returned within the borders of Poland and from the 1960s and 1970s onwards it changed shape: in place of fishermen's huts grew guesthouses, holiday cottages and the first resorts, and the sandy beach, forests and proximity of the Baltic attracted family after family.
