Rietavas

Places of interest in Rietavas

Archaeological objects and monuments
Mounds:
• Ancient sacrifice hill (5 km from Rietavas)
• Lopaičiai mound (Lopaičiai village, Tverai Neighbourhood), it is believed that the Castle of Samogitian Duke Vykintas was standing here in the 12C
• Pribitka cemetery (Lopaičiai village, Tverai Neighbourhood)
• Mound (Skroblas hill);
• Tverai. Tverai is associated with the Duke of Samogitia Vykintas of the 2nd half of 13C, who according to Hypatian Annals headed the Samogitian army in the Battle of Saules in 1236. The first mentioning of Tverai land in written sources dates back to 1289. Until the mid-14C - late-17C was a small rural district, while in 17-18C – the centre of neighbourhood, and by 1643, Tverai developed into a small town.
• House of Worship – Shrine (dates back to 1500-1400 B.C.). These stones near Tverai clearly show why the Samogitian Diocese was founded in Medininkai (present Varniai). Originally, this structure could have been a heritage of megalithic culture (3000-1500 B.C.), later adapted to Baltic Veda (800-100 B.C. – first century A.C.).

Architectural objects and monuments
Buildings:
• St Michael Archangel’s Church (built in 1853, Neo-Romanticism, author Gausovskis; Rietavas)
• Music school of the Dukes Oginskiai (built in 1872; cultural history museum now, Parko g. 10, Rietavas)
• Park of the manor palace (Rietavas, built in 1833)
• Tverai Church (built in the end of 17C)
• Churches of Spraudė and Medingėnai

Natural objects and monuments
• Spring of nine veins. Next to the cemetery, twenty-thirty steps towards Aitra, the Spring of Nine Veins is coming from the foot of Gaiša hill: three veins of three currents, each of them marked different day or god (or to be more precise – 9 features of one god). At the place of junction of nine currents, there was a small well from which “wonder-working” water was taken.

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