Kamianiec (also Kamieniec Litewski) is a small town in the Brest region of western Belarus, best known for its extraordinary medieval landmark: the Kamianiec Tower, a 30-metre brick donjon built in the 1270s by Prince Vladimir of Volhynia. It is one of the very few medieval towers in Eastern Europe to have survived almost complete -- red-brick Gothic, bristling with arrow slits and merlons -- and a small branch of the Brest Regional Museum inside tells the story of its 750 years. Nicknamed the "White Tower" even though it has always been red (a confusion with the nearby Belavezhskaya Pushcha national park, whose name means "white forest"), it is the town's single reason to visit.
Kamianiec sits about 40 km north of Brest on the road to the Belavezhskaya Pushcha, Europe's last primeval forest, so it combines naturally with a day trip to the ancient woodland and its famously shaggy European bison.