The town of Lukovit has a population of about 10 000 inhabitants and lies at a distance of 68 km west of the district centre. Lukovit is the municipal centre of 11 component settlements. The town is situated at the valley widening along the Panega River at an altitude of 135 m. The town is written in the Ottoman tax registry books in 1430.

In the vicinities of the town there are remains of a prehistoric, a Thracian and a Roman settlement, a medieval fortress and a necropolis. In the region have been discovered epigraphic monuments, coins and the Lukovit treasure. The treasure has been discovered in 1963 and dates back to the end of IV c. B.C. The treasure consists of 3 jugs, 9 phials, an iron rein and a large number of silver applications to a horse's ammunition.

The tourist sights of the town are: The Karlukovo Monastery, the rocky churches "St. Marina" and "St. Nikola", the church "St. Georgi" (188), the Kotlen canyon, the Karlukovo karst region with the caves "Temna dupka", "Prohodna", "Svirchovitza", "Bankovitza", "Haidushkata peshtera" and others.