Soce | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Total Type: | |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Voivodeship |
Subdivision Name1: | Podlaskie |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Hajnówka |
Subdivision Type3: | Gmina |
Subdivision Name3: | Narew |
Coordinates: | 52.95°N 47°W |
Pushpin Map: | Poland |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Soce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Narew, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.[1] It lies approximately 10km (10miles) north-west of Narew, 270NaN0 north-west of Hajnówka, and 250NaN0 south-east of the regional capital Białystok.
The village is inhabited mostly by Orthodox Belarusians.
An ethnographic-tourist project called "The Land of Open Shutters" is realized in Soce. The main objective of this project is to preserve an original wooden architecture of cabin-like old cottages with intricately carved ornaments like vibrant and colourful shutters or dynamically designed edge guards.
Despite the recently increased modernisation, the traditional architecture is still in evidence.