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Breslau - Daugavpils - Druja
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Druya

narrow-gauge railway station (currently, residential building), hotel and fire station. Polish school. Church of St. Trinity and Bernardine Monastery (Marians’ during the interwar). You will hear about the ancient town of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, ruled by even the great grandfather of Czesław Miłosz. You will see Boris Stones in the town square and hear its history. We will remember a baroque Druya synagogue – the largest in the entire Grad Dutchy of Lithuania. You will hear a story about Alter Druyanow, a Jewish writer from the family of Druya rabbi. A street in Druya is named after him. We will go down the last ghetto road where the jews of Druya were taken to death. We will see a composition built in the memory of the narrow gauge railway – old rails and railroad ties and a bell as if announcing the departure of a train. You will hear the Lithuanian-speaking pastor of Druya. You will visit the Garden of Paradise.

What people say
from the eye and from the heart
Tatiana Linkevich,
teacher
On the other shore of the Daugava river – Latvia, the European Union. And we sometimes joke that it would be better to join the European Union as buses would go more often and it would be easier for people to live.
Sergey Surynovich,
priest
I’m building communication bridges with this monastery. Dialogue is what matters the most here.
Tatiana Linkevich,
teacher
People are now leaving, there was a bakery, butter, beer, glass factories. But nothing’s left. It was all in Polish times. We remember that period as the time of the prosperity of Druya.
We are interested in your opinion.
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