Mansurian Lake District

The Masurian Lake District or Masurian Lakeland is a lake district in northeastern Poland containing more than 2,000 lakes. It extends roughly 290 km eastwards from the lower Vistula River to the Poland-Lithuania border and occupies an area of roughly 52,000 square kilometers. The lake district was shaped by the Pleistocene ice age. Many of its hills are parts of moraines and many of its lakes are moraine-dammed lakes.

Three presidents of Poland, Lech Wałęsa, Bronisław Komorowski and Aleksander Kwaśniewski, met the president of New7Wonders, Bernard Weber, in a display of solidarity with the Polish Finalist in the New7Wonders of Nature, the Mansurian Lake District.

The occasion for the meeting was the handing over of the Official Certificate of Participation for the Masurian Lake District. The event took place in the Ballroom at the Palace on the Island in the Royal Łazienki Museum.

The meeting, which was hosted by the Lech Walesa Institute, was also attended by Jacek Palkiewicz, honorary ambassador of Mazury; Jacek Protas, Marshal of Warmia and Mazury; Peter Gulczynski, President of ILW; Rafal Szmytke, President of the Polish Tourist Organisation; Ireneusz Bil, director of the Foundation Amicus Europae, and Elzbieta Ofat, representing Director Tadeusz Zielniewicz of the Royal Lazienki Museum.