Kolonia, Szczytno County

Kolonia [kɔˈlɔɲa] is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Świętajno, within Szczytno County, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.

Bogumił Linka, a social activist and pioneer of agricultural education, was born in Gorkí in 1865.

In the East Prussian plebiscite of 1920, which was largely boycotted by ethnic Poles, the inhabitants voted to remain in Germany.

Visitors can visit a remarkable collection of Natural history exhibits from all over the world in the Muzeum Misyjno-Etnograficzne Księży Werbistów.

From there at the popular lake "Jeziora Świętajno" springs the river stream "Szkwa", which also leads through Kolonia.