Pastavy

Pastavy (Postavy, Postawy) is a town in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus.

Understand

Pastavy in the northern part of the country in the Belarusian Lake District, on the Miadziołka River, a tributary of the Dzisna, 20 km from the border with Lithuania.

Get in

The R27 and R110 roads intersect in the city.

By train

• 1 Train station. 

See

A view of Pastavy with St. Anthony's church.

• 1 Church of St. Anthony of Padua (Касцёл Святога Антонія Падуанскага). A nice small Gothic Revival church completed in 1904. The interior is well worth seeing. 
• 2 Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker (Свята-Мікалаеўская царква). The church was built in 1891–1893. (updated Feb 2023)

Tyzenhauz and Przeździecki Palace

• 3 Tyzenhauz and Przeździecki Palace (Палацава-паркавы комплекс Тызенгаўзаў). This classicist palace of Tyzenhauz was built in the second half of the 18th century. After World War II, it was rebuilt into a hospital, which remains there.  
• Landscape park - fragments of the former park surrounding the palace with a system of ponds, canals and alleys.
• Market Square, or Lenin Square, with Baroque tenement houses and stalls (2nd half of the 18th century) built for the workers of A. Tyzenhauz's manufactories.
• Synagogue and Jewish cemetery
• Watermill (19th century)
• Administrative building of the Starosty of the Poviat of the Second Republic of Poland