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| One of the most dramatic and the best preserved ensembles of manors of 19th century in Lithuania. They were designed and built in 1879 by an architect of German origin Karl Lorentz. Because of its grandeur and beauty this palace is called Versailles of Samogitia. The ensemble of the manor consists of Neo-Renaissance style palace, Neo-Gothic stable, two outbuildings, clock room – greenhouse, park gates and guard‘s house, household gates, pheasant grower‘s house, and laundry house. The park of mixed types of 18th – 19th centuries was landscaped in the place of Samogitians‘ sacred forest – Alka. At the instruction of duke M. Oginskis, 7 cascade ponds interconnected by stone bridges – sluices were dug. |
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