Go back to routeKaišiadorys is a town that appeared as if ‘out of nowhere’, only when in the 19th century the railway was built. In mid-March of 1862, the first train passed through the future Kaišiadorys without even stopping.
Kaišiadorys train station, the railwaymen’s house, a uniquely constructed water tower, a railway depot where basketball players from Kaunas used to train, and perhaps the oldest public brick toilet in Lithuania (the purpose of which has been preserved to this day). Kaišiadorys court building is where Elena Masiulytė, one of the first female judges, worked. Curia of the Diocese of Kaišiadorys, where the Apostolic Constitution Lituanorum gente with the authentic signature of Pope Pius IX is kept. And a ‘patriotic’ garden, which was created on the site of a former Orthodox church. Antanas Škėma, the father of the writer Antanas Škėma, was the director of the Kaišiadorys School of Crafts, a patriot and orator who used to give fiery speeches in this garden. Standing on the rails and pointing towards Vilnius, he would shout, “The Poles are thieves, they have stolen Vilnius”. His son Antanas Škėma wrote about it in his novel White Shroud.
