Hrodna
Grodno, or Hrodna, is a city in western Belarus.
Grodno, or Hrodna, is a city in western Belarus. It is one of the oldest cities in Belarus. The city is located on the Neman River, 300 kilometres (190 mi) from Minsk, about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the border with Poland, and 30 kilometres (19 mi) from the border with Lithuania. Grodno serves as the administrative center of Grodno Region and Grodno District, though it is administratively separated from the district. As of 2025, the city has a population of 363,718.
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Kalozha Church
A 12th-century Orthodox church, one of the few surviving monuments of the Old Rus period in the country.
- 02St Francis Xavier Cathedral
A fine Baroque basilica, once a church of a Jesuit monastery, now the city's Roman Catholic cathedral.
- 03Old Hrodna Castle
The present appearance of this royal residence was mostly shaped in 16th century, when it was renovated in Renaissance fashion for King Stephen Bathory.
- 04Fire Tower
The old Fire Tower built at the end of 19th century.
- 05Hrodna Zoo
Hrodna Zoo is next to the railway station.
- 06Great Synagogue
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Things to do
Bike. The relatively flat and beautiful landscape around Grodno present a good place to bike. When planning your biking trip, use OpenStreetMap based app, such as mapy.cz, as these seem to have the best coverage.
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Where to eat
Retro Pizza, 31 Sovetskaya St (Follow the long pedestrian street down from the main square. Near Lenin Square). Good pizzas here. The menu is only in Russian, but some staff speak English, and some dishes (not the pizzas) have pictures to point to. Pizza Kofe, 15 Kirova St,. Good pizza and poor coffee. 6.50 rubles for medium pizza and 8.50 rubles for big one.
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Getting to Hrodna
- Airports
- Vilnius (VNO), 143 km · Kaunas (KUN), 145 km · Brest (BQT), 173 km
- Brest → Hrodna174 km · quickest by road, 4h 30m · $18–25
- Minsk → Hrodna247 km · quickest by road, 3h 58m · $22–30
- Vilnius → Hrodna147 km · quickest by road, 3h 46m · €21–29
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Hrodna
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Hrodna. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf coming by car from Poland or Lithuania, be sure to fill the customs declaration, even on one day trip using the visa free regime.
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