The Panevezys region is mainly agricultural and is located on the border with Latvia. In the past, it was the seat of important Polish magnate families, led by Radziwiłł and Tyszkiewicz.
The region's capital, Panevezys, is the fifth largest city in Lithuania. His most important monuments include the Piarist monastery complex founded in the 18th century. He ran one of the best schools in Lithuania and then a junior high school. Two neo-Gothic churches originate from the turn of the 20th century. Peter and Paul and the Cathedral of Christ the King. Polish gravestones can be seen at church cemeteries. The oldest building in the city is the building of the former court of the Upic poviat from the beginning of the 17th century.
Birże holds a modern place on the map of attractions of the Poniewie region. There is a reconstructed 17th-century Radziwiłł castle in the palazzo in fortezza type, which houses a museum. It is surrounded by a landscape park falling towards Szyrwena Lake. In the same town you can see the Tyszkiewicz palace built like the Italian villa. Members of this family are buried in a nineteenth-century church in the Empire style.
Small Kupiszki are also rich in monuments, where you can see the classical palace of the Tyzenhauz, an Livonian family possessing extensive estates in northern Lithuania. In the surrounding park there is a mill and a brewery, as well as the 17th-century Kroszyński castle. The town has retained its historic spatial arrangement, in which a neo-Gothic church and market halls founded by Tyzenhauz stand out.
