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Kurtuvenai Travel Guide: 3 reviews and 7 photos

The Catholic church of Kurtuvenai - Kurtuvenai

Kurtuvenai Regional Park

Kurtuvenai Regional Park was established in 1992, with the aim to protect hilly landscape of Kurtuvenai with forested and laky surroundings, its natural encourage traditional lifestyle.

Why Kurtuvenai Park?

The enter to the park

Park area covers 15 090 ha, including 12 130 ha of forests. Whole parks territory divided into several zone, where different limitations are applicable: conservation (nature reserves), ecological priory (preservation), recreation, economic (forestry and agriculture) and living zones. Sparsely populated park territory has over 1200 local dwellers.

Cultural heritage

The wooden barn

Surroundings of Kurtuvenai are attributed to Eastern (the Old) Zemaitija ethnographic region with dominating sole homesteads and eclectic villages scattered along forest edges and lakesides.
People inhabited the surroundings of Kurtuvenai as early as the late Stone Age. Castle mounds, worshiping mounds, and burial mounds are abundant there and indicate that people lived there in Copper and Iron Ages as well.
In 14th century a nobleman established an estate in Kurtuvenai, which reached the peak of its luxury in 15th century. The most valuable building of the estate is 200 years old wooden barn. In 1495 the first church was erected in Kurtuvenai and a catholic parish created.
Construction heritage object that have remained are channel connecting the Dubysa and Venta rivers dug up in 1825 through 1831 and water-mills of Dengtiltis and Mirkishke.

Pros and Cons

Pros:Easy to reach from Riga and Siauliai
Cons:Very small village
In a nutshell:Pleasant timespending on weekends

Last visit to Kurtuvenai: Dec 2005
Intro Written Jan 3, 2006
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spanishguy Jan 18, 2006 at 1:33 AM

It sounds to be a nice place for a weekend visit. I tried the food in Lithuanian pubs and it was great. My favourite dish was potatos filled with meat!
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bugulma Jan 10, 2006 at 10:52 PM

Nice cultural place. Do you need a visa to Lithuania by the way?