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Raimix Says: Birstonas museum houses the exhibition from the oldest times till nowadays. It shows how defensively important was Birstonas, who were going to hunt to Birstonas land forests, how Birstonas got the right for resort status. The tools for treating are exhibited as well. Museum...
Raimix Says: Sanatorium "Tulpe" is known as the first sanatorium here in Birstonas. “Vytautas” and “Vaidilute” mineral waters are used for procedures. “Vaidilute” mineral water has bigger constentration of bromine. It is proved that water with bromine efficient in treating joint,...
Raimix Says: Sanatorium “Versme” was established in 1975. Here water and mudp procedures could be made, here is also the only one salt room in Lithuania exists. Fountain is located just nearby the sanatorium. The look if it is quite Sovietic. The view of fountain, as I see, is quite...
Church of St. Anthony Paduvian
Raimix Says: This Catholic church was built between 1903 – 1909. It was projected by famous neo gothic style architect Vaclovas Michnevicius. The main altar of the church is a home of copy of famous St. Mary painting. The original one is in Gates of Dawn, in Vilnius. Church is...
Raimix Says: Monument for partisans who fought against Soviet army soldiers was established in Jonas Basanavicius square. As Birstonas land is quite forested one, partisants had their hidden bunkers here, was fighting against Soviet politics. Actually intensive actions of partisans was...
Raimix Says: It is the central square of Birstonas resort. After First World War Lithuanian Red Cross not only took care of medical ecquipments and buildings for medical purpose, but also for a whole look of town. In year of 1939 the central square was formed with a monument for...
Raimix Says: The park, named after the name of famous Lithuanian Grand Duke, was formed in 19th century. Later, in interwar period (1928 – 1935) it was redesigned. The main object in park probably is Grand Duke Vytautas sculpture. Duke is shown on the horse. It repeats the history – as...
Raimix Says: This mound is one of the highest and widest in Lithuania. Here in 14th century wooden castle stood. Later it was used as a home to Lithuanian Dukes who visited Birstonas region for hunting purposes. The castle finally lost importance in 17th century, nowadays here is just a...
Raimix Says: Daytrip by car was taken partly using book of A. Semaska “Kelionės iš Vilniaus” (trips from Vilnius). At this trip several small towns were visited. The route was Vilnius – Vievis – Semeliskes – Aukstadvaris – Birstonas – Ziezmariai – Vilnius. It could be, of course,...
How to get to Birstonas by public transport
evaanna Says: We went to Birstonas by car, staying as we did in a Polish village near the Lithuanian border, but if you have to rely on public transport, you will have to take a bus to get there. The bus journey takes 2 hours from Vilnius but only 50 mins from Kaunas.Here is the address...
vysnaite Says: Lithuanians like Jazz. Basically there are 4 international Jazz festivals Kaunas Jazz, Vilnius Jazz, Klaipeda Jazz and Birstonas Jazz. They have very particular atmospheres, there're a lot of people prefering Birstonas Jazz festival. It takes place every second year , on...
Lazy to tidy up? Don't move to live in Birstonas
satara Says: Sometimes I think that some Lithuanians are a bit lazy to tidy up and clean their living areas, so they tend to be similar to South Europeans like Italians and Greek. But people in Birstonas are the Number 1 clean people in the whole Lithuania. The whole area was well...
satara Says: Look after your kids because not all are born to be sailors. In Birstonas there are millions of chances to escape to the river and look at the motor boats racing. It can be a big lure especially that other kids who practice motor boat racing are showing various tricks on the...
Jieznas – small town with beautiful baroque church
Raimix Says: Jieznas first time was mentioned in 1492. Here was a palace of famous Pacai family (nowadays just some buildings, not looking as palace left).Jieznas is most known for its beautiful baroque church, construction of it was funded by Pacai. Churcf of St. Archangel Michael and...
Prienai – former rival of Birstonas
Raimix Says: Prienai got more significance than Birstonas in 17th century. Place got Magdeburg right in 1609. In 1785 the paper factory was established, it was one of the biggest in Lithuania. Town is interesting for its big wooden church, monument for Great Duke Kestutis, Freedom...
Nemajunai – great wooden church
Raimix Says: Village of Nemajunai is known from 14th century. Most people here belonged to forest-workers. In 19th century place is already mentioned as contraband place – Nemunas river was a border with Prussia. Nemajunai is known for great looking wooden churchof Sts Peter and Paul,...
vysnaite Says: Winter is generous with snow in Lithuania, but nature wasn't generous with mountains. don't expect the Alps , but we do have hills! Consequently, we have few skiing trails. Two of them are ready in Birstonas (160 and 300 meters long) with an "elevator" that brings you to the...
satara Says: Birstonas has the most popular yacht-club and training spot for various water sports like kayaking, canoeing, scooter racing etc. The day I was there I could see children getting ready for the motor-boats race the next day which was dedicated to Birstonas Days Festival on...
evaanna Says: We were too hot and lazy on that summer day to climb the many steps up Vytautas' Hill in Birstonas to get a better view of the Neman. We had some doubts whether we would see much anyway as there were some trees and shrubbery at the top which might have obscured the view...
Children's wall paintings in the park
evaanna Says: I don't generally like graffiti. They deface the walls of houses of so many cities and removing them repeatedly is not only tedious but also very expensive. It would be best if any compulsive painters who want to find an audience for their art or 'art' were provided with...
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Once decided to climb up the Birstonas piliakalnis and see what's on the top of it, we started our journey.. oh yeah.. that was a tough exercise...:)
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Birstonas - a spa on the Neman River
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Birstonas – small town on Nemunas bend
First time Birstonas was mentioned in 1382 in crusaders chronicles. Already in 14th century here wooden castle stood. When battle of Grunewald (Zalgiris) was won and crusaders stopped attacking...
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Birstonas - lovely mineral water resort city
The official Birstonas town webpage (www.birstonas.lt) says: "Nestled amid the grand forests, and tucked in an arm of one of the famous Nemunas River bends, a delightful surprise awaits the...
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As most of foreign tourists "know" Lithuania is a very wild and little civilised country. Almost all Lithuania is a huge natural park and due the evolution we have a special speciement - new breed of...
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