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The three-stemmed Napoleon pine is one of the most impressive in Kurtuvėnai Regional Park. Height – 22 m, trunk circumference – 3.3 m, diameter – over a meter. It is believed that this tree could be about 300 years old. It is said that Napoleon's treasure is hidden under the pine. At dusk, the wind rises in that place and a brown dog barks. Therefore, people built a chapel in the pine.

This stone used to lie in a swampy part of the Kurtuvėnai forest near Rimas Hill. It was saved from destruction by a resident of the village of Mekiai. The man kept it in his homestead for several decades. In 2008, at the initiative of the Kurtuvėnai community, the stone with the “Footprint of God” was brought back and placed near its former location, at the foot of Ribiškės hill. People used to say that God descended from heaven and left his footprints on the stone. Others believed that angels flew and stamped their footprints on the stone. Footprint stones are called footprint stones because of their elongated depressions 10–40 cm long, 4–15 cm wide, and 2–7 cm deep (rarely larger). Some resemble a barefoot or shod human foot, while others resemble the footprints of animals and domestic animals. https://www.siauliurajonas.lt/lankytinos-vietos/akmuo-su-dievo-peda/

The five state-protected Bubiai poplars are the largest trees of this species in Lithuania. Their tops reach a height of 31–33 meters. The trunk diameter is from 1.5 to 1.8 meters. The thickest of these five is the two-stemmed poplar, the circumference of which at chest height is 5.73 meters.

Pustlaukios Hole is a thermokarst ravine, a geomorphological natural heritage site. The ravine is located in Kelmė district, 1.5 km W-NE from the village of Vainagiai, in the western part of Kurtuvėnai Regional Park, in the Pustlaukios Geomorphological Reserve.

You can take a nice break here.

The estate's park, which covers an area of 72 hectares, was founded in the 18th century and redesigned in 1900. It was largely shaped by the German landscape architect Georg Kuphaldt (1853–1938). It was originally bequeathed by Catherine the Great to her last lover, Platon Zubov. He passed the park on to the noble Naryshkin family. It is therefore also called Naryshkin Park. The park has an impressive old tree population, which was unfortunately recently badly damaged by a storm.

Beautiful, enchanting peace, well-equipped path through the swamp.

About 360 million years ago (Devonian period of the Paleozoic era), sedimentary rocks - dolomites - formed on the bottom of a warm salty sea. And 13,000 years ago, the latest retreating glacier from Lithuania left sediments - sand and gravel - which settled on the dolomite surface. After the ice melted, a mixture of boulders, sand and clay lay on the surface. In the vicinity of Žagare, dolomite was found at a depth of 0.3-6 m. The layers of these rocks can be seen on the banks of Švėtė, at the bottom and in the former dolomite quarry - in the outcrop of Žagarė. Žagarė outcrop - a geological object of natural heritage - a dolomite wall 2.5 - 3.5 m high and about 200 m long, known since the 19th century. In the quarry, dolomite was mined by hand even before the Second World War for burning lime, and later also as crushed stone for road construction. The people of Žagar, who worked in the quarry, said that they filled the excavated dolomite into furnaces, which they burned with firewood and stumps. The lime burned out in 4-5 days. They were taken to the Joniškis railway station, where they were sent in wagons according to orders, usually to Russia. Lime burning furnaces (lubricators) were installed right next to the quarry. The remains of one of them have survived to this day. The exploitation of the dolomite quarry was stopped in 1964. in 2012 the works of organizing and adapting the Žagarė exposure for visitors have been completed, during which the area of the exposure has been improved, stairs, a canopy, and an information stand have been installed.