A poviat town in the Lublin Polesie, founded in 1401 as a royal town located on the Jagiellonian trade route connecting Vilnius and Cracow, a venue for many meetings and conventions of Old Polish gentry. The main historic sight is a Neo-Gothic church built in the years 1905-13 with a 16th-century painting of Our Lady called ‘Madonna and Child with the pear’ (representing the Flemish school of painting). Next to the church stands a wooden bell tower built in the 17th c. using the horizontal log technique.