The city of Suchowola — this is the place where, according to calculations made by Simon Anthony Sobiekrajski in 1775, the center of Europe is located.
What is interesting is that Europe has several center points, it all depends on which criteria you choose when calculating. And so in 1989 it was concluded that the center of Europe is in Lithuania. Other countries also undertook to determine the center of Europe in their own area, and as such, we find such points also in Austria, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Ukraine.
The phenomenon of so many centers of Europe even contributed to the creation of a 2004 movie entitled “Centre of Europe”, which beat this topic to death.
For us, it is just a stop along the way. We stopped for a moment in Suchowola and saw the stone placed here for this occasion in the market square. You can see that more and more popular here is another monument — Fr. J. Popiełuszko — below the metal structure of the papal arch.
The children’s attraction was undoubtedly the fountain on the market square. By hook or by crook they wanted to splash their parents.