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Tauragė
From the press at the time: With bacon of Tauragė to London. As the ship was sailing, a stranger came out and asked the captain for food. They handed over the stowaway to the marine police.
Tauragė railway station with the Columns of Gediminas in the Historicist style. Inside, the authentic floor tiles remain. Bank of Lithuania - the construction amounted to about half a million litas. District hospital with spacious wards. In 1922, Lithuanian-Americans built a hydroelectric power plant. Here, for the first time in Lithuania, a high-voltage current was switched on. Company Maistas, based in Tauragė, built a new Danish-style bacon factory. A modern pigsty for 200 pigs was designed with tiled flooring, hot water, and underground sewerage.
What people say
from the eye and from the heart
Edmundas Mažrimas,
cultural heritage conservator
The people from Tauragė say, “I’m going for a swim in the sea”, and the visitors are puzzled how it can be so because the Baltic Sea is more than a hundred kilometres away. Tauragė has its own sea, a river named after it.
Assoc Prof Dr Vaidas Petrulis,
architectural historian, KTU
Chief Building Inspector Novickis reproaches the professor, saying that a person from Tauragė will probably feel uncomfortable when he or she goes to the bank because they will feel as if they have entered a luxurious palace.
Edmundas Mažrimas,
cultural heritage conservator
Maistas had a siren that used to make a loud signal, letting the whole city hear when it was time to go to work.
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