Appearance
Pastavy (Postavy, Postawy) is a town in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus.
Understand
[edit]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
[edit]The R27 and R110 roads intersect in the city.
By train
[edit]- 1 Train station.
Get around
[edit]See
[edit]- 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.
- 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