Sejny
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About Sejny
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.
Sejny travel guide
Understand
Tourist Information is in the museum at ul. J. Piłsudskiego 28.
Getting there
By bus PKS Nova. Regional carrier serving Podlaskie voivodeship. 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
1 White Synagogue (Biała Synagoga), Piłsudskiego 41. 2 Former Synagogue. 3 Sejny Land Museum (Bishops' Palace), ul. J. Piłsudskiego 28. Former Dominican Monastery, plac Sw. Agaty 6. (updated Jan 2021) 4 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) [1] 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, [email protected]. 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
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.