Monastery

Sejny is a town in Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland 12 km from the Polish - Lithuanian border. Sejny was always a multinational and multicultural town - Poles, Lithuanians, Jews, Germans, Belarussians and others lived here together. Today it is a rather sleepy town counting a little more than 5000 inhabitants.

Understand

Tourist Information is in the museum at ul. J. Piłsudskiego 28.

Get in

By bus

PKS Suwałki. There are connections from Sejny to Augustów, Białystok and other nearby towns.

By car

Sejny has good connection to Suwałki and Augustów, it lies on the road to Polish - Lithuanian border crossing Ogrodniki/Lazdijai.

See

White Synagogue

• 1 White Synagogue (Biała Synagoga), Piłsudskiego 41.  
• 2 Former Synagogue.  
• Sejny Land Museum (Bishops' Palace), ul. J. Piłsudskiego 28. 
• Former Dominican Monastery, plac Sw. Agaty 6. (updated Jan 2021)
• 3 Church of St. Mary (Bazylika Nawiedzenia Najświętszej Maryi Panny).  

Do

• Check what is going on in White Synagogue, where Ośrodek "Pogranicze - sztuk, kultur, narodów" (Borderland of arts, cultures, nations) resides.

Sleep

In summer there is a youth hostel at one of the schools.

• Hotel Skarpa, ul. J. Piłsudskiego 13, ☏ +48 87 516 20 65, skarpa-sejny@su.home.pl. Also a restaurant. 
• Lithuanian House (Dom Litewski), ul. 22 Lipca 9, ☏ +48 87 51 62 908. 

Go next

• Alytus and Druskininkai in Lithuania
• Suwałki – the largest nearby town