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City in Aukštaitija, Lithuania
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Panevėžys is an industrial city in the Aukštaitija region of Lithuania. It's the country's fifth largest city, with a population of 89,100 in 2021 and another 30,000 or so in the city district. It's about midway along the highway between Vilnius the capital and Riga the Latvian capital.
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Krastotyros muziejus
Museum of natural history, city history and culture, founded in 1925 and on its present site in the Moigių mansion since 1985.
Miesto dailės galerija
Galleries of modern art and ceramics, with some outside exhibits plus photography at the annex at Vasario 16th g 11.
Švč Trejybės bažnyčia
This Roman Catholic church was built in 1803 by the Piarists, more snappily known as Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum. This Order is dedicated to children's education, and needed a stone church, monastery and school when their old wooden facilities burned down. It was bashed in wartime and trashed by the Soviets, but re-consecrated in 1989.
Kristaus Karaliaus katedra
Planned from 1860 but with construction delayed by war and hostile authorities, this Roman Catholic cathedral was eventually consecrated in 1933. The style is a mix of Baroque and Neoclassical.
Evangelikų liuteronų bažnyčia
This was completed in 1885 but looks older, a traditional Gothic wooden church in light paint.
Šv apaštalų Petro ir Povilo bažnyčia
Roman Catholic church completed in 1885, in Neo-Renaissance red brick.
Ramygalos gatvės kapinėmis, Ramygalos Street Cemetery
This was intended as the site of a cathedral, never needed for that, so it opened as a cemetery in 1914. The First World War rapidly filled its plots but it's still in use, a bosky resting place for the city's great and good. One monument commemorates Jurgis Tilvytis (1880-1931) the poet, scholar and rector of the cathedral, who was giving a funeral sermon here for a deceased monk when he upped and died himself.
Linų muziejus
Museum within a wooden windmill. The interior is closed for restoration but the mill makes a scenic picnic spot.
The most central park, west bank of the river with an ornamental lake.
Larger wooded park east of the river loop.
formerly Cido Arena
Built in 2008, this hosts basketball team Lietkabelis Panevėžys, concerts, and indoor cycling.
This stretches west of town along the south river bank, with cycling trails and fishing spots. Dogs welcome.
Aukštaitijos siaurasis geležinkelis
This 750 mm (2 ft 5 1⁄2 in) gauge railway was built from 1891 and transported passengers, coal and agricultural produce. It ran southeast for 68.4 km to Anykščiai and Rubikiai. In 1916 the German army added two Heeresfeldbahn extensions - light prefab tramways that could be speedily assembled then dismantled, as those were. The original route has been preserved but regular summer trains only run along the last section from Anykščiai to Rubikiai - an occasional festive excursion starts from Panevėžys. There's an old station here with locomotives and rolling stock.
This 1960s Soviet military base has been turned into an outdoor amusement park with picnic areas, sculpture park and scary bunkers.
A better place for inexpensive meals in city centre.
Chain restaurant serving hearty trad Lithuanian fare.
Good place for grills and beer.
In a historic old mill in town centre, this is a smart clean hotel with a good restaurant.
Friendly clean place south of the centre on Laisvės square.
Clean budget hotel with large rooms near the hospital.
Budget hotel near the railway station, access by door code.
By train
Four trains daily from Šiauliai (starting from Mažeikiai) take 90 min to Panevežys. For times and online tickets see LTG Link.
By bus
Eurolines run once a day from Riga airport via Riga city to Panevėžys, 2 hr 15 min, continuing to Kaunas. Another bus calls here on the way to Warsaw, and a third for Minsk.
By road
From Vilnius take A7 north, a fast dual carriageway (no toll) that bypasses Ukmergė and Panevežys and continues across the border to Riga.
Most sights are within walking distance of the centre. Stops-Lt displays city bus routes: Bus 6A runs hourly from Janonio g and the railway station downtown then east out to Dembava.
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