The Taurus District is adjacent to the Kaliningrad District and is primarily agricultural and industrial. The city of Taurogi is located here, which was once the seat of the Radziwiłł family.
The region is not very rich in tourist attractions, but you can find several places of interest here. Its capital is Taurogi, today a thriving center of the machinery and textile industry. In the past, they belonged to the Radziwiłł family, and the memento of those times is rebuilt in the 19th century. The castle, which now houses a museum. A valuable monument is also the nineteenth-century Protestant church. The Exile Museum operates in the former headquarters of the security service.
From the sixteenth century, the area of Taurogi was an important center for the development of Protestantism, which was supported by the owners of these areas Radziwiłłów. Evangelical churches built mainly in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries can be seen in Szyłele, Pojega and Skaudwil. In Jurbork, a neo-Gothic Catholic church and the tomb of the Piadzewicz family have survived. Jurbork and Skaudwile can also boast original wooden buildings from before World War II.
