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Zarasai

Zarasai. About the old land of the Selonians, the trade route, the northern Lithuanian resort, lakes, and Lithuanian Switzerland.

In 1932, Zarasai was granted the status of a health resort. One of the most famous buildings of the time is the wooden villa of the Gronskis family. From the tower of this villa, you can see the unique layout of Zarasai - the streets emerge like rays from the central Sėliai Square. Between the two lakes is the State Gymnasium named after Prof. Kazimieras Būga (now the library), it was the most expensive building of the time and the painter Justinas Vienožinskis was the headteacher. The old post office in Zarasai, where holidaymakers used to send postcards to their families. The inscription Paštas (Eng. Post Office) is still visible on the facade of the building.

What people say
from the eye and from the heart
Assoc Prof Dr Vaidas Petrulis,
architectural historian, KTU
One of the messages said there were currently 100 holidaymakers in the town. Well, it is not a huge number, but it is still quite a lot, and it brings some profit to the town.
From the press at the time,
1937
The newly opened summerhouse has telephones, electricity, plumbing, an icehouse, and everything else what a pampered and modern holidaymaker would need. Good cuisine, beer, crayfish, dried cheese and coffee.
Kęstas Vasilevskis,
Zarasai Regional Museum
The municipality had adopted a plan in 1933 that whoever commits and builds villas at the Baltas Lake would be given a free land lot.
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