Soce, Poland

Soce is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Narew, within Hajnówka County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland.
The village is inhabited mostly by Orthodox Belarusians who use Podlachian language.
An ethnographic-tourist project called "The Land of Open Shutters" is realized in Soce. The main objective of this project is to preserve an original wooden architecture of cabin-like old cottages with intricately carved ornaments like vibrant and colourful shutters or dynamically designed edge guards.
Despite the recently increased modernisation, the traditional architecture is still in evidence.