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viewpoint on the cliff

The monument and the graves of the anonymous are located on the new bicycle path along the Neman River.

Alytus is one of the greenest cities in Lithuania. There are four parks in the city, and the Vidzgiris Botanical Reserve is located on its territory. In the Youth Park, the City Garden and the Resort Park (two of them are in the center of Alytus), you can not only have fun, but also watch the frolicking squirrels. If you don’t manage to meet live squirrels, don’t be too upset. There are bronze sculptures of these animals in Alytus. In the Old Town Square, near the book exchange house, a bronze squirrel sits proudly on a bench with a book on which it is written “A book is a good way to surpass yesterday’s self.” Stroking this cute little animal gives you an indescribable desire to read books. The author of the sculpture is M. Zavadskis.

The old sculpture "Lily Flower", authored by sculptor Vladas Kančiauskas, was erected in Alytus in 1981, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the city of Alytus. The sculpture, which adorned the city for several decades, was dismantled when the construction of a bicycle and pedestrian bridge began. Sculptor V. Kančiauskas prepared a new project and presented a slightly different "Lily Flower" sculpture - a hollow, "lighter" one, matching the bridge structures, but visually repeating the old sculpture.

While traveling along the former embankment towards the highest pedestrian and bicycle bridge in Lithuania, tourists are greeted by a surprise – two carriages of the former train “M 23”. In one there is a cozy café with a special dessert from the interwar Alytus resort, which even ladies from Kaunas came to taste. In the other there is a museum of the history of the former Alytus region railway.

The first temporary church in Druskininkai was built in 1857 in a separate house, thanks to the efforts of Yakov Rozhnov, the deputy governor of Grodno. He also covered all the costs of building the new church, which was built in 1865. Since 1895, there has been a school near the church. During the USSR, in 1947, a parish with 350 members was officially registered. In 1957 and 1978, the church was repaired (Translated from Wikipedia).

A beautiful piece of earth.

The Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Joy to All Who Sorrow" is a wooden Russian Orthodox church. It was built between 1861 and 1865, after the place became a famous health resort for Russians. The main donor for the construction of the church was Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov. His granddaughter Iekaterina sponsored the iconostasis. The region was occupied by the Poles during World War I and became a center for Belarusian emigrants. The church was closed by the Soviet Union in 1944, but reopened in 1947 and renovated just ten years later. It was renovated again in the late 1980s, during the Soviet era. The church is painted blue on the outside. Various icons and religious images underline the magnificent interior of the church.