Terespol
Terespol is a border town in eastern Poland on the border with Belarus.

Terespol is a border town in eastern Poland on the border with Belarus. It lies on the border river Bug, directly opposite the city of Brest, Belarus. It has 5,794 inhabitants as of 2014.
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Worth seeing in and around Terespol
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Brest Fortress
Brest Fortress formerly known as Brest-Litovsk Fortress, is a 19th-century fortress in Brest, Belarus. In 1965, the title Hero Fortress was given to the fortress to commemorate the defence of the frontier stronghold during the first week of Operation Barbarossa, when Axis forces invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.
2.6 km · 19th century Belarusian fortress · Wikipedia - 02Berestye Archeological Museum
The Berestye Archeological Museum, located in the city of Brest, Belarus, is a museum centered around an archaeological site displaying an authentic East Slavic wooden town dating back to the 13th century. Unique in Europe, the 1800 square meter site was excavated by archeologists of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences between 1968 and 1981.
2.7 km · archaeological museum in Belarus · Wikipedia - 03Brest Castle
Brest Castle evolved in the course of several centuries from the Slavonic fortified settlement Berestye that had appeared at the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries at the confluence of the Mukhavets River into the Bug River, amid islands, formed by the rivers. It was re-built several times after numerous fires and sieges, was destroyed in the course of construction of the Brest Fortress in the 19th century.
2.7 km · castle in Belarus · Wikipedia - 04Brest Railway Museum
The Brest Railway Museum or Brest Museum of Rail Equipment is an outdoor railway museum in Belarus, located in Brest. The museum was opened on 5 May 2002.
3.9 km · museum in Belarus · Wikipedia - 05Chełm Gate
The Kholm Gate is a gate of the citadel of Brest Fortress in Brest, Belarus. Originally built in the 19th century during Russian rule, as one of the four fortified gatehouses, leading into the Citadel of the Russian Brest Fortress.
2.8 km · gatehouse of the Fortress Brest, Belarus · Wikipedia - 06Cemetery Orthodox chapel of The Lord's Resurrection in Terespol
The Chapel of the Resurrection is an Orthodox cemetery chapel in Terespol. It belongs to the Parish of St.
500 m · orthodox chapel in Terespol, Poland · Wikipedia - 07Orthodox church of Saint John the Evangelist in Terespol
The St. John the Evangelist Church is an Orthodox parish church in Terespol, Poland.
800 m · orthodox church in Terespol, Poland · Wikipedia
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Getting to Terespol
- Airports
- Brest (BQT), 19 km · Lublin (LUZ), 112 km · Warsaw Chopin (WAW), 181 km
- Lublin → Terespol117 km · quickest by road, 3h 37m · zł32–43
- Warsaw → Terespol178 km · quickest by road, 2h 44m · zł43–55
- Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki → Terespol202 km · quickest by road, 3h 26m · zł50–65
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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 Terespol
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 Terespol. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you are already in Terespol and need to cross over to Brest, you can walk over to the border crossing and "hitchhike" across with one of the cars that is already towards front of the line.
- Get aroundTaxis are also easy to order and "marshrutkas" also operate throughout the city.
From Wikivoyage: Brest (Belarus), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.
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Next door to Terespol
Terespol is 8 km from Brest, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Brestcity of Belarus, capital of Byerastsye Region2.9 km
- Gmina Terespoladministrative district in Poland3.5 km
- Michalkówvillage in Lublin, Poland3.3 km
- Polatyczevillage in Lublin, Poland3.2 km
- Lechuty Dużevillage in Lublin, Poland2.6 km
- Łobaczew Małyvillage in Lublin, Poland2 km