Santarvės gatvė

Santarvė - harmony, peace, concord..

This town celebrated 500 years anniversary in 2001. Here is the speech president V.Adamkus said on this occasion.

Zamenhofo street

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L.L.Zamenhof was the person who invented Esperanto language. There are two places which remind of Zamenhof - the statue in the city park and the monument in the place where once his house was standing (it is at the end of the Zamenhof street, close to the forest).

Smb. calls Veisiejai -Vishey :)

Saulėtekio street

Saulėtekis - sunrise.

Žvejų gatvė

Žvejai - Fisherman

So called Fisherman street, and what fishes could u catch here?

Bream, roatch, pike, ablet, snapper, perch in Ančia.

Big breams, sheatfishes, perches, pikes, ruffs, cods, crucians, rudds, vendaces, flaxes, bleaks, silvery breams in Snaigynas.

And many other if you are patient, silent and lucky enough :)

Pušyno gatvė

Pušynas - pine tree forest

It's the most common tree growing in Lithuania. Pine trees occupie 40% of the lithuanian forests.

Smėlyno gatvė

Smėlynas - Sand
No wonder there is such street - sand and grit are most common in this reagion. That's why agriculture isn't the only occupation. Gathering mushrooms, picking herbs and berries in pine forests, wood carving, beekeeping are also native residents are good at.

Vytauto gatvė

Ok.. it might be just a very popular name in Lithuania (Vytautas), but if u add "The Great" then we are certainly talking about this history hero.

And i gess this is the main street in Veisiejai.

Address: Vytauto g. 47
Building: Veisiejai region museum

Žvejų mažoji gatvė

Žvejų mažoji gatvė - Fisherman's small street

27 th of June is International Fisherman's day which is celebrated since 1985. Fisherman have their patron Šv.Petras - St. Peter.

Tulpių gatvė

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Tulpė - Tulip

Most popular flower on the 8-th of March (International Women's day).

Statybininkų gatvė

Statybininkas - Builder
Will the cultural heritage be upheld in Lithuania?
Wooden architecture prevailed in Lithuania up to the second half of the 20th century. Architecture created by peasants has been studied in detail and is presented in national country life museums, while architecturally unique manors have been almost unstudied. In the 18th century even 4 thousand manors were calculated in Lithuania. And, despite the existence of international documents that describe strategies of valuation and protection of wooden heritage, the further devastation is still continuing in Lithuania. The manors unmercifully disappear from our life. Looking to the capital, small Lithuanian towns are tending to supersede their wooden heritage, too: every of them rush to become more moderns, although it is well known that we may astonish Europe only by our originality but not by imitating it. There are seven historic – urban town centres in Alytus county that are inscribed in the Register of Cultural Property. They are the following: Veisiejai, Daugai, Simnas, Butrimonys, Valkininkai, Merkinė and historic part of Druskininkai town. Tendency to neglect the requirements of heritage protection in the name of private needs is frequent in Lithuania. Unfortunately, the analogue urban – architectural heritage has not been preserved in Palanga and Kursiu Nerija. It is a paradox that our lawful country cannot cope with wilful damage of cultural heritage and there is a real thread of its survival.

borrowed from: http://www.naujastatyba.lt/16/english.htm

Parko gatvė

....Parkas - ParkVeisiejai city park was planted in XVIII a. Here still grows 500 years old Ash.

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• Veisiejai regional park was established to preserve the forested landscape of the Veisiejai lake system. The Šlavantai – Veisiejai – Kapčiamiestis lake chain covers the greater part of the park. The total number of lakes found in the park is 37.

Pievų street

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Pievų gatvė - meadow,grassland,field

Kapčiamiesčio gatvė

This small town is situated 12 km. to the north of Veisiejai (the name Kapčiamiestis comes from the name of manor establisher Sidoras Kapčius and other part of the word (miestas) means small town. Kapčia + miestis= Kapčiamiestis.

Jaunimo gatvė

Jaunimas - Youth

That's the letter written to Nato Secretary.

Tip: don't get confused the essey was written by ninth-former of a secondary school in Veisiejai, but in the letter she is elderly woman.

Adress: Jaunimo g.8 Veisiejų vidurinė mokykla (secondary school). First mentioned in 1777, when here studied 8 pupils.

Some people who atchieved much in their professional life studied here : Juozas Ašembergas, Fulgentas Bižys, Gintaras Bleizgys, Petras Dumbliauskas, Romas Dumbliauskas, Sigitas Geda (some translated poems), prof.hab.dr. Liudas Truska, doc. dr. Vytautas Mizaras, doc. Tomas Blažauskas, doc. Rolandas Bleizgys, dr. Elena Baliutytė-Ryliškienė, dr. Vitas Grimala, Irma Jankauskaitė, Kęstutis Stabingis, Romas Bubnelis and others.

J.Janonio gatvė

J.Janonis - Poet, revolutionist. Born in Biržai region, burried near Carskoje Selo. His poems were first published when he was 16 years old. He was fighting social inequality with his poems.The most interesting but also sadiest story is, how the story of his life ended...
For antipolity activity he was sent to prison, was released when he was 21 years old, sick incurable tuberculosis and depressed. He wrote a poem "Sveikas gyvenime, tave sveikina einantis mirti" and jumped under the train.

Ežero gatvė

Word "ežeras" means "lake" and there are 4 of them really near:
Ančia (word native of antis - duck)
Snaigynas (word native of snaigė - snowflake)
Vernijis
Veisiejis (word native of vėjas sėja - wind sows)

P.s. nice places to go fishing.

The territory of the region and the lakes were wormed by ice-fields coming from Scandinavia, the last of them were gone 15-16 thousand years ago.

Dzūkų gatvė

Dzūkai - people living in ethnographic region named Dzūkija. Veisiejai is in Dzūkija.

Folk song:

Dzūkija

Kiek daug gražių dainų,
Bet gražiausios mano tėviškėj.
Su daina aš gyvenu:
Koks gi tu dzūkas be dainos?

Vieškelio vingiuos supas berželiai,
Šypsosi saulė danguje.
Mes esam dzūkai, girių karaliai.
O karalienė -Dzūkija.

Kiek daug žalių girių,
Bet žaliausios mano tėviškėj.
Girios oš, girios žaliuos,
Kur aš gyvenčiau, jei ne jos.

Kiek gaug gerų žmonių,
Bet geriausi mano tėviškėj.
Dzūkas paguos, ranką paduos,
Dzūkas tau širdį atiduos.

Dariaus ir Girėno gatvė

Darius and Girėnas had a plane named Lituanica and overflew Atlantic ocean in 1933, but under mysterious circumstances crashed close to its destination Kaunas. Shortly - our Heroes.

Veisiejai from above.

Building: Veisiejų Šv. Jurgio bažnyčia (shortly - catholic church, which has features of classicizm and neo-baroque).

Adress : Dariaus ir Girėno g. 1

Šv.Jurgis - Saint George is usually shown sitting on a horse and killing a dragon. And the princess praying nearby.

Build in 1817 by Viktorija Oginskytė-Zinevienė (her testament) but also has history since 1525

Aušros gatvė

Aušra - sunrise.

Aušra - mornings and beams goddess. That's from polytheism, old religion which Lithuanians used to believe before accepting christian religion, lithuanians were the last ones in Europe to do it and according to history books lithuanians were forced to do it.

Ateities gatvė

Ateitis - future.







Strategical development plan for Veisiejai and all Lazdijai region. (unfortunately no English).
Statistical department says there are 1637 people living in Veisiejai (2007).