Birštonas Resort celebrates 175: will celebrate all year round

Today, Birštonas attracts tourists and guests seeking spa treatment with modern health resorts, sanatoriums, many other recreation places that offer opportunities for active leisure and natural methods of body recovery.
"Over the past few years, Birštonas has been the fastest growing resort. Birštonas people are innovative, curious, innovative people! In Birštonas, mud treatment and dietary nutrition were applied for the first time, a jazz music festival that had become a tradition was organized for the first time, and mud and mineral water were certified for the first time in Lithuania. In addition, we are the first to create a program for post-epidemic treatment, ”says Nijolė Dirginčienė, Mayor of Birštonas.

Invites planting trees and trying out virtual entertainment
Birštonas municipality invites Birštonas residents, resort friends, companies, and organizations to celebrate their 175th anniversary together and join the tree planting campaign "My gift to Birštonas". The resort's landscaping specialists will choose the most suitable places for the trees, and those who have purchased them will be able to plant the trees themselves - it is a meaningful gift not only for the resort but also for future generations.
There will be other initiatives to get to know Birštonas throughout the year. As long as quarantine restrictions are in force in the country, the history of Birštonas can be explored without leaving home - the Birštonas Museum has prepared an interactive virtual tour, rich in interesting and valuable information about the history of Birštonas (http://www.birstonomuziejus.lt/virtualus-turas/). Birštonas Tourism Information Center offers as many as 19 routes for getting to know the nature, infrastructure, and history of the resort. "Business meetings in the forest", "Mineral water", "Great Nemunas loops", "Fountains", "Best personalities" and other routes can be overcome on foot, by bicycle, kayak or even ski (https://www.visitbirstonas.lt/marsrutai /). In addition, Birštonas is probably the first city in the country that invites you to visit places of interest along the way from major Lithuanian cities. The Ulba GO mobile app will help you embark on this innovative study tour.

How did Birštonas come about and what makes it special?
The name of Birštonas was first mentioned in 1382. February 21 In the Prussian Chronicle. In it, the German chronicler Vygandas Marburietis named Birštonas as a castle from which the brothers of the order quickly withdrew.
The beginning of the establishment of Birštonas resort is associated with 1846, when the doctor of Stakliškės resort B. Bilinski's, interested in the sources of Birštonas, sent a patient here who was not cured by the healing sources of Stakliškės. It is said that the woman who arrived in Birštonas recovered. 1854 At the end of the 19th century, after lengthy investigations and bureaucratic procedures, the Russian Minister of the Interior signed a permit to establish the resort of Birstonas. A year later, the first health resort was built, and in the 19th century. By the 1960s, Birštonas, as a balneological resort, was already well known in the Russian Empire.
Birštonas resort uses a unique philosophy of Sebastian Kneipp, which combines five elements of natural health: herbal and water therapy, balanced diet, movement, and harmony.
The resort has won various awards not only for its projects in the field of tourism but also for the three highest awards of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Diploma of Honor, Flag of Honor, and Badge of Honor) for promoting European ideas, promoting youth and international relations.
Visitors to Birštonas are attracted by the unique natural resources and the unique landscape of this area. 1992 The Nemunas Loops Regional Park was established in 2006 - it is one of the largest regional parks in the country, occupying about 25 thousand. hectares. 2019 The tallest observation tower in Lithuania was opened to visitors.