Hospital of Šakiai County. 300,000 litas were spent for its construction at the time. An X-ray machine was purchased, and an outpatient clinic, dressing station, and a pharmacy were built. “Today, we are still wandering, having lost part of our gene pool,” says the Chief Medical Officer while telling about the history of the hospital.
Šakiai Žiburys Gymnasium was founded in 1918. The wooden gymnasium burnt down during the war, but was rebuilt into a new, still existing, modernist, two-storey school with a facade decorated with stylised national symbols. The school courtyard has a century-old acacia tree that dates back to the opening of the school.
According to historians, Gelgaudiškis was founded first, and Šakiai much later. Gelgaudiškis Riflemen’s House. The House was built in just one year, after the demolition of the sheepfold of the manor house. Lithuanian litas were embedded under the cornerstone of the foundation. The tiles of a former ceramics factory can also be found here.
Šakiai Church, designed by architect Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis. Between the wars, the church had an impressive tower, which was blown up by the retreating German army in 1944.