The geographical center of Europe

The town of Suchowola - this is the place where, according to calculations made by Szymon Antoni Sobiekrajski in 1775, the center of Europe is located.

Interestingly, 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 explores this topic.

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 another monument is more popular here: Fr. J. Popiełuszko under the metal structure of the papal arch.

Fun fact: Fr. Jerzy Popiełuszko was born in 1947 in the nearby village of Okopy, and from 1961 to 1965 he went to the secondary school in Suchowola, which now bears his name. In 2010 he was beatified.

The children's main attraction was undoubtedly the fountains on the market square. By hook or by crook they wanted to splash their parents.