Object description

The Tower of Kamyenyets, often called by the misnomer the White Tower , is the main landmark of the town of Kamyenyets in Belarus. The name Bielaja Vieža , which literally means White Tower or White Fortress in Belarusian, presumably derives from the tower's proximity to the Belavezhskaya Pushcha Forest, but not from its color, which has been brick-red through the ages, never white.