Anyksciai is a small Lithuanian town located in the picturesque region of the hills and lakes of Aukštatia. It will conquer you not only with its natural beauty but also with its large number of attractions. In 2007, Anyksciai received the status of a resort area.

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First, tourists come to Anyksciai to touch the natural beauty of the north of Lithuania and visit numerous manors, museums, temples and monasteries. Next to the town is the Anykščiai forest with a giant Puntukas boulder. In 1943, high reliefs of national heroes, pilots Darius and Girenas, who tried to fly from the USA to Lithuania in 1933, were applied to the stone. They lacked a little bit: the plane crashed in Poland, and the pilots died.

The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum is perhaps the most famous landmark of Anyksciai. From the operating trains of the narrow-gauge railway, a museum spirit emanates the ancient but well-preserved cars driven by TU2 as if they had arrived straight from the 1950s.

The museum presents a working motorised tire, which used to be the major means of transportation on narrow gauge railways, as well as a variety of cars: passenger, freight and even a car on railway wheels.

The office of the head of the station in the building of the Anyksciaia station has been preserved almost unchanged. Everyone has the opportunity to be photographed at his desk in a uniform cap.

The Church of St. Matthew, consecrated in 1914, deserves special mention. This is the highest temple in Lithuania: its towers rise to 79 m.

In addition to the towers of the church, a strange chimney stands out in the flat landscape of the city. This is a factory famous throughout Lithuania, producing delicious fruit and berry wines. During a visit to the factory, a tasting of the local Voruta drink is carried out, after a couple of glasses of which it is impossible not to buy a set of branded tinctures with you.