Braniewo - a city in the northeast of Poland, in the Warmia-Mazury. Braniewo is located about 35 km northeast of Elblag and 55 km south-west of Kaliningrad, five kilometers from the Vistula Lagoon.

It is known that the city was named in honor of Bishop Bruno von Shaunburga who accompanied King Ottokar II in 1254 and 1267 respectively in the crusades of the Teutonic Knights in Prussia.

City Braniewo benefits received in 1284, and twelve years later there was built a Franciscan monastery. Braniewo became a member of the Hanseatic League, thereby actively flourished. This city remained part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Order. During the Livonian War, Braniewo was occupied by Sweden for several years. Ethnically German, Polish political, and above all a Catholic town was annexed by Prussia in 1772. In 1871 he joined the newly created German Empire. In the late nineteenth - early twentieth centuries Braniewo was a leading research center.

During the Second World War the city was occupied by the Red Army and suffered heavy destruction. German residents were either evacuated before the Red Army arrived, or were killed in the fighting.

Currently Braniewo is a prosperous Polish city that attracts tourists. The main attractions of Braniewo are: the church of St. Catherine, St. Peter's Cathedral in 1343, the gates of the former Bishop's Castle, Church of the Holy Cross, the remains of the defensive wall and the train station.