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 Druskininkai is the largest
resort in Lithuania, located in the south of the country, 120 km from
Vilnius and Kaunas. The resort is famous for its old sanatorium treatment
traditions, wonderful nature and rapidly developing tourism services
infrastructure. The resort has long been famous for its mineral waters and
curative mud, which currently are combined with modern technologies and
have a great value for health services. Druskininkai is the international
resort for active recreation and treatment, which is aimed at the  wide
spectrum entertainment industry with its highly developed modern service
infrastructure. The resort infrastructure is developed in these directions
– sanatorium treatment, tourism, recreation, entertainment and
commercial sporting activities. The wide range of available services is
suitable for people of all ages.
Visit Druskininkai and you
will be convinced of the exceptional nature of this resort and its calm
aura. You will sense a harmony of body and soul or maybe you will spend
your time very lively in active entertainment.
Health improvement in Druskininkai is a
source of energy and good mood. Enjoy your life, care of yourself and
remember – you are always welcome in Druskininkai!!!
 Traditional
treatment
Advantages for personal health in
Druskininkai are mineral water, curing mud, and mild climatic conditions.
These make this Southern Lithuania resort attractive to visitors and serve
as a good background for sanative activity.
Drinking mineral water has
positive effect on the mucous membrane of stomach and duodenum, reduces
stomach acidity, stimulates bile formation, regulates gastro-intestinal
motorics, exchange of electrolytes and hormones. When drinking or inhaling
drinking mineral water, it causes variations in hormones, strengthens immune system.
Patients can drink mineral
water of different mineralization and composition straight from the
springs.
Druskininkai is rich in
fields of therapeutic peat mud. It is the product of long decomposition of
vegetative organisms with almost no exposure to oxygen taking place in low
marshlands. Due to its physical, chemical and microbiological properties
it is suitable for treatment with baths, applications and compresses.
 Climate is the third
remedial factor of Druskininkai health resort. The town is surrounded by
coniferous woods and waters. There are no industrial companies, heavy
transport or any other kind of pollution round the town.
The key feature of pure air
is negative (light) ions predominant in the air. The average temperature
in summer is 18,2 °C, relative humidity is 45-59 %, while the average
temperature in winter is 5 °C and relative humidity 85-90 %. Annual
rainfall is about 600 mm, on a sunny day annually it amounts up to 200,
southwest winds 2,9 m/s are dominating. It is the perfect background for
treatment procedures, recreation and tourism.
 In a tradition of two
hundred years, the recreational health resort of Druskininkai proved its
potential to stop illnesses exacerbation and progress, to reduce the
dangers of disability, and of resort to increase the general quality of
life.
In 2003 Druskininkai resort
was admitted to the International Climate Therapy and Hydro Therapy
Association that unites about 60 members of various resorts in different
countries worldwide.
 Health improvement
treatment
Physical and biological,
and sometimes psychological conditions of the patient are actively
affected in the resort. Promotion of an active and responsible for his own
health person is one of the ways to propagate the health improvement
effects of the resort here. Physical activity of people in various social
and age groups is encouraged in order to satisfy their biological need for
mobility.
The renewed infrastructure
of the resort and warm attitudes of the personnel of health treatment centers
attract more and more people from Lithuania and abroad
successfully. Not only traditional treatment of illnesses is offered, but
also the popular programmes for health strengthening, orientated on
younger persons recreation and relax.
People from cities here are
recovering in a few days time and are able to forget their everyday
worries, stresses. They leave but come again because, they say, the pace
of time in this beautiful place in Dzukija stops for them.
Besides, medicine specialists designed and
supervised special programmes of different scope and intensity helping
patients to loose weight, to relieve from the stresses, and to nurture
their bodies.
Local places of interest
Druskininkai is situated in
picturesque surroundings, encircled with interesting places to visit. Many
places can be reached by riding on bicycle paths from the town center through the pine
forests: the ethnographic Švendubrė village with a
monument to nature – the Devil’s Stone, and the legendary Raigardas
Valley loved by M.K.Čiurlionis,
the Museum of Soviet Sculptures “Grūto parkas”, or just to see the Ratnyčia river as it meanders along its
banks, and bath in its cascades. By bicycle
you can reach the interesting surroundings of Latežeris and, along the
way, visit the country house of the folk artist A.Česnulis (Naujasodės
village). New bicycle and pedestrian
paths are planned to Viečiūnai and Liškiava.
 An excursion by boat will
take you to Liškiava to visit a mound with the remains of the 15th
century castle tower, late baroque church and the Dominican monastery. We
invite you to visit the Dzukija National Park, where you can see
Dzukija’s natural beauty and the local architecture, business and
customs of the local inhabitants and sample the traditional food.
In the picturesque city
centre, new tennis courts have been opened for those who enjoy physical
recreation.
The Raigardas
landscape reserve
The Raigardas valley is a
picturesque landscape valley located 9 km from Druskininkai on the road to
Gardinas. There are many legends and folk stories about Raigardas.
Supposedly, very long ago there was a great city, which was later
swallowed up by the earth. From time immemorial it is considered that the
slopes of the Raigardas trough together with the pine trees growing on the
high and dry slope sink to the springy abyss. The valley has been growing
every year. The name Raigardas came from old times, then a city in
Lithuanian was called "gardas" and swamps – "raja".
From these two ancient words the name Raigardas was coined. The Raigardas
valley has been declared a landscape reserve. There are wide meadows with
dunes and washes in the bed of the valley. The Raigardas Valley is
protected as a rare landscape form. It was formed relatively recently
(5000 years ago) and is still forming now. At the foot of the slope there
are watery springs, which is the reason why the slope is still on the
move.
Švendubrė
Švendubrė is one of
villages located in the Druskininkai forests near the Raigardas valley, 5
km from Druskininkai. It is an old street village, which has been
declared an architectural monument of local importance. Especially
interesting are the old dzukish homesteads with distinctive fenced yards.
Around the village in an area of 20 sq km there are meadow seams with
streams. Where the Nemunykštis river falls into the Nemunas river, there
is a steep hill called the Black Mountain. In olden times it could have
served as a defensive point. From the top of the hill there is a beautiful
panorama: the blue waters of the Nemunas river, the Raigardas valley,
covered with green carpet of grass. In the  distance you can see the Užubalis
hill, overgrown with pine trees and bushes. Supposedly, in ancient times a
small wooden castle could have stood here, surrounded by swamps and
bushes. To the north of the village there is a geological monument – the
Švendubrė Stone, mentioned in many legends and folk stories.
 Liškiava
Liškiava is mentioned in
historical sources since 1044. Liškiava is located on the astonishingly
beautiful left bank of the Nemunas river, 8 km from Druskininkai. People
have lived in the Liškiava area since the second millennium BC. Liškiava
has 4 archeological monuments: the Alka mound, the Church hill, a stone
with a bull’s heel and the so called "the stone of witches".
 Liškiava is famous for its
architectural monuments: the 14-15th century castle, the remains of its
tower, the 17th century sacral ensemble (church, former Dominican
monastery and outbuildings), the 18th century churchyard fence, the steps
to the chu rchyard, the 19th century campanile, the memorial column with
the sculpture of St.Agatha. Many works of art remain in the church from
the 17th to 20th centuries. In the 6th century BC – 9th century AD there
was a wooden castle on the mound. The wooden castle was built at the end
of 14th century and the beginning of the 15th century and later abandoned
after the battle of Grunwald (1410).
The Dzūkija
National Park
The Dzūkija National
Park is the largest national park in Lithuania, which occupies an area of
55,900 ha. The biologic diversity of the region, distinctiveness of flora
and fauna made this territory an exception. Here you can find 147 kinds of
flora and fauna written into the Red Book. There are many ethnographic and
historical monuments and works of folk art in Naujasodė, Merkinė
and Zervynos.
 Merkinė
Merkinė is one of the
oldest Lithuanian towns, located in the junction of Nemunas and Neris,
Merkinė was mentioned in 1377 in  the Teutonic Order chronicles. It
was the old capital of Dzūkija, encircled by beautiful landscape. It
witnessed the Lithuanian battles with the Teutonic Order, old rulers of
Lithuania and Poland and a stay of the Russian czar Peter I. An old
tradition of black ceramics still lives in the neighborhoods of Merkinė.
Many attractive ecological and ethnological tourist routes start here.
 Museum
"Grūto parkas"
In the shadows of pine and
fir trees, soviet monuments whch were dismantled in 1989 are exhibited.
This is a heritage of several decades of the Lithuanian monumental art.
These idols were forced on the Lithuanian people in tragic  soviet era and
reveal the historic truth about the soviet occupation of Lithuania. The
exposition aims to show to the people of Lithuania, visiting guests as
well as to the future generations, the naked soviet ideology, which
oppressed and violated the spirit of our nation for several decades.
 The Town Museum of Druskininkai
The representational villa "Linksma"
build in the beginning of 20th century, where the Town Museum is located,
is a beautiful architectural monument located on the shores of the
Druskonis lake, in the centre of the town. Since 2001, the museum has a
permanent exposition, hosts events, shows, chamber music concerts and
lectures. During the holiday season, the museum terrace hosts the
traditional concerts "Serenades of Druskininkai" and other town events.
 The Memorial Museum of M.K.Čiurlionis
The museum was established
in 1963, in the house of the parents of the artist and composer Mikalojus
Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911), where he lived and worked from
1896 to 1910. In two family houses the authentic life has been recreated.
In the other two buildings there are expositions of the art, biography and
family history of the artist. The museum has a reading hall, which
collects works on M.K.Čiurlionis, hosts concerts, events, evenings
and shows films. The various expositions are organized in one of the halls
of the museum.
 V.K.Jonynas’ Gallery
The gallery was founded in
1993 m. The gallery exhibits the works of the Lithuanian artist Vytautas
Kazimieras Jonynas (1907 – 1997), who worked for a long time in Germany
and the USA, his drawings, graphics, paintings and stained-glass projects.
Photographs and films show the most valuable interiors of churches and
works of monumental architecture created by the artist.
The gallery hosts art
exhibitions from the National Museum of M.K.Čiurlionis and private
collections. For schoolchildren and kindergarteners art lessons are
organised in the gallery which has 15 easels. Also projects with V.K.Jonynas art school are organised.
 Forest Museum
"Girios Aidas"
The museum was established
in 1971. It has expositions of animals and birds. Witches and other
legendary characters are hiding in the hollows of oaks, birds are singing
and the forest sighs.
The following exhibitions
are organized:
- wood art works,
- jewelry works from amber,
- black ceramics works,
- works of folk artists,
- expositions of photographic masters,
- ethno cultural collections.
 At
the end of 2006, an Aqua Park - the biggest and most modern in the
Baltics - was be launched in Druskininkai. It offers a large variety
of entertainments for both adults and children as well as a wide choice of
relaxation procedures.
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