Castles and manors in Lithuania

Adakavas Manor near Skaudvilė in Tauragė District is an 18th-19th-century manor-and-church ensemble whose palace is encircled by a chain of eight interconnected ponds and a landscape park. Nearby stands the wooden St John the Baptist Church, while Roman-period barrows in the area are linked with the antiquarian activity of writer Dionizas Poška.

Adomynė Manor in Kupiškis District is a rare surviving wooden vernacular Classicist manor with authentic interiors: tile stoves, ornamented parquet, and painted ceiling rosettes. In 2024 it was added to Lithuania's Blue Shield list of cultural heritage of exceptional value, while the building remains a living village community space.

Alanta Manor in Molėtai District is a nineteenth-century Neo-Romantic manor estate now operating as a museum-gallery, with manor history, the Vaidotas Žukas Gallery, the Teofilius Matulionis exhibition, and film-memory links to Tadas Blinda shooting locations.

Antašava Manor in Kupiškis District is a regional-significance Classicist manor estate by the Pyvesa. Its palace, rectory, and stone granary were begun in 1809-1811 by owner Hiacintas Antašauskas to designs associated with architect Mykolas Šulcas.

Astravas Manor in Biržai is one of Lithuania's clearest nineteenth-century Romantic manor estates: an Italian-villa-like Tiškevičiai palace built in stages in 1842 and 1862 on the Lake Širvėna peninsula, with a watermill, arched bridge over the Apaščia, and an 18 ha park.

Aštrioji Kirsna Manor in Lazdijai District is one of the largest surviving Užnemunė manor ensembles, with about twenty buildings around enclosed yards and a landscape park. The Sapieha, Karenga, and Gawroński families owned it over centuries, and private owners are gradually restoring it today.

Babtynas-Žemaitkiemis Manor by the Nevėžis in Kaunas District is a manor site reaching back to the sixteenth century, later owned by the Prozorai, Tiškevičiai, and interwar general Vladas Nagevičius. Restored by a private owner after Soviet decline, it now hosts concerts, festivals, celebrations, and vintage car and motorcycle collections.

Baisogala Manor beside the Kiršinas is one of central Lithuania's strongest manor ensembles: Komarai noble-family palace with a rotunda and dome, Romantic Classicist decoration, 19 surviving buildings, a 12 ha park with ponds, and today's function as the LSMU Animal Science Institute.

Belvederis Manor above the Nemunas near Seredžius is a Neo-Renaissance Tuscan-villa type residence, built around 1830 by Kletas Burba, with a viewing turret, 7 ha park, granary, chapel-mausoleum, and a remembered 372-step approach from the river.

Bikuškis Manor stands on a peninsula on the shore of Lake Alaušas, near Sudeikiai in Utena District. Over the centuries it belonged to notable families from the Radziwiłłs to the Proszynskis, who received the privilege to found Sudeikiai; folk-Classical palace buildings, a granary, barn, and old lakeside park survive.

Biržuvėnai Manor Estate in Telšiai District is one of the most valuable wooden Samogitian manors, linking a place name known from 1253, the Gorskiai family from 1670, a Virvytė watermill, 1907 park renewal, a 1909 cardboard factory, the 2004 fire, the 2005 porcelain find, and the palace restored in 2011.

Bistrampolis Manor in Panevėžys District is the Bistram family estate, with a nineteenth-century Classicist palace, park, ponds, museum spaces, cultural events, and a restored hospitality function.

Burbiškis Manor in Radviliškis District is a manor of parks and water composition: palace, ponds, islands, bridges, Ulianskis sculptures, Baženskis family history, and the tulip-bloom tradition come together in one visitor ensemble.

Čiobiškis Manor stands on a high bluff by the Neris and Musė confluence. The late Classicist palace was built by the Piłsudski family in the early nineteenth century, while local tradition links the design with Laurynas Gucevičius, an attractive but unproven attribution. In the twentieth century it served as a children's shelter, partisan headquarters, and boarding school.

Cirkliškis Manor in Švenčionys District is a nationally significant late Classicist manor estate: the 1826 Mostovskiai palace with a six-Doric-column portico, icehouse, smithy, 34.5 ha English-style park with Cirkliškis Hillfort and lake, and 1863 uprising memory.

Džiuginėnai Manor near Telšiai is a wooden Samogitian manor estate where writer Žemaitė served in 1864-1866 and met her future husband. The protected complex includes the manor house, granary, stable, icehouse, park, and nearby Džiuginėnai Hillfort.

Gačionys Manor by a lake in Rokiškis District is a well-preserved wooden Neoclassical manor long owned by the Rosen family. Restored by new owners and opened to visitors in 2025, it offers a 13 ha park, pond system, pontoon bridge, and a Ford Model T museum in the former carriage house.

Gelgaudiškis Manor (Cultural Heritage Register code 1013) is one of the most appealing manors in Panemunių Regional Park: the 1846 Neoclassical palace with an Ionic portico, the French-style park, and the left-bank slopes of the Nemunas create a manor, town, and river route in the Šakiai region.

Ilguva Manor stands on the Nemunas bank in Šakiai District, within Panemunių Regional Park. It is one of the best-preserved wooden folk-Classicist manors in Suvalkija, known not only for its architecture but also for early-twentieth-century musical history connected with conductor Emil Młynarski and singer Beatričė Grincevičiūtė.

Ilzenbergas Manor in Rokiškis District is a restored manor estate between Lakes Ilgis and Apvalasas, where a park-museum, Love Island, sculptures, old oaks, and paths let visitors experience the manor as a landscape complex.

Jašiūnai Manor is a late-classical palace connected with the Baliński and Śniadecki cultural circle, bringing together Karol Podczaszyński's architecture, nineteenth-century science and literature, and the multicultural memory of the Vilnius region.

Joniškėlis Manor is the nationally significant Karpis family manor estate complex in Pasvalys District. Its palace, offices, farm buildings, park, and Ignotas Karpis' 1808 testament form one of the strongest manor-history narratives in northern Lithuania.

Jurbarkas Manor is visited through two mid-nineteenth-century late Classicist service wings, a workers' house, former Orthodox church, and mixed-plan park; the main palace was lost during the First World War.

Kelmė Manor is one of the important manor-heritage sites of Samogitia: held by the Gruževskis family from 1591 to 1940, with masonry palace, gate building, park, and the exhibitions of Kelmė Regional Museum.

Kiduliai Manor on the left bank of the Nemunas opposite Jurbarkas brings together the history of a royal village mentioned in 1559, the rule of the Kiršenštein and Karpis families, the 1837 grant of the manor to General Offenberg, the surviving nineteenth- to early-twentieth-century homestead with granary and park, and today's events.

Kretinga Manor and Winter Garden is one of Samogitia's most convenient manor routes: the Tiškevičiai palace with a 16 m high orangery, 693 sq m winter garden with 170 plant species, museum exhibitions, half-timbered watermill, and park in one place.

Kurtuvėnai Manor Homestead is one of the oldest manor sites in Samogitia, known from the fifteenth century. The key sights today are not the palace, which burned in 1919, but the eighteenth-century baroque wooden granary, park, fish ponds, riding centre, and the landscape of Kurtuvėnai Regional Park.

Leipalingis Manor is a Classical Dzūkija manor estate, KVR code 265, whose palace was probably designed in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century with input from architect Martynas Knakfusas. Once held by the Sapieha, Masalskis, and Kruševskis families, the manor, park, and town structure form one of the clearest heritage sites in southern Dzūkija.

Lentvaris Manor in Trakai district is known for two things: the Neo-Gothic Tyszkiewicz palace and one of Lithuania's most important romantic parks, designed in 1898-1900 by French landscape architect Édouard François André. The park with grottoes, cascades, artificial rocks, and ponds survives, while the palace is neglected and awaits revival.

Norviliškės Castle is the visitor-friendly name for the former Norviliškės folwark and Franciscan monastery complex in the Dieveniškės loop, where the Szorc family foundation, Renaissance architecture, and borderland landscape meet.

Paežeriai Manor by Lake Paežeriai is one of Suvalkija's most distinctive manor ensembles, associated with a late eighteenth-century palace, Martynas Knakfusas' architecture, a park, and the Neo-Gothic Belvedere tower.

Pajūris Manor is an old estate in Pajūris town, Šilalė District, on the left bank of the Jūra River. Only fragments survive: a brick building called the brewery, once a distillery and in 1935 converted into a Franciscan monastery, later a Soviet agricultural school and now apartments, plus a state-protected park with a system of three connected ponds and an island in the first pond. The wooden manor house has not survived.

Palėvenė, or Komarai, Manor stands beside the Lėvuo River in Kupiškis District. From 1654 until nationalisation it belonged to the noble Komarai family; surviving today are local-dolomite farm buildings, a rebuilt officina, parkland, and a four-dolomite-column portico by the river.

Paliesius Manor in Ignalina District is a restored manor estate of regional significance, with surviving manor buildings, a unique horseshoe-plan stone stable now adapted as the Pasaga concert hall, and contemporary concert and wellness spaces.

Pavandenė Manor in Varniai Regional Park preserves red-brick manor remains by Lake Gludas and a restored Sakeliai mausoleum-columbarium on nearby Sklepkalnis hill.

Pienionys Manor in Anykščiai District was known for one of Lithuania's most beautiful wooden Classical manor houses. The wooden house has not survived, but nineteenth-century service buildings, a decorative distillery, a smokehouse like a bell tower, a granary, lion gates, and a 9 ha landscape park remain by the pond.

Plinkšiai Manor on Lake Plinkšiai in Mažeikiai District is one of the more valuable Historicist manor estates in Samogitia. The late nineteenth-century palace built by the Pliateriai counts and the old park survive, but restoration of the palace remains unfinished and access to the estate was limited at the time of research.

President Antanas Smetona's Užugiris Manor beside Lake Lėnas in Ukmergė District was a gift from the Lithuanian Nationalist Union to Lithuania's first president. Built in 1937 in a modern interwar style near his birthplace in Užulėnis, it now operates as a memorial museum and branch of the Ukmergė Regional Museum.

Raguvėlė Manor by the Juosta River in Anykščiai District is one of Lithuania's largest and most coherently preserved manor estates. In the ensemble owned by the Komarai family for two centuries, more than twenty buildings survive, including Classical palace buildings, octagonal granaries, a wooden church, chapel-mausoleum, and park.

Renavas Manor in Mažeikiai District is a late Classicist residence of the Rönne barons by the Varduva: brick palace from 1830-1833, authentic nineteenth-century interiors, a large English-style park with natural monuments, and a museum exhibition on manor culture.

Rokiškis Manor is a Classical Tyzenhauzai and Przeździecki manor ensemble that today houses the Rokiškis Regional Museum, preserving collections on the city, manor, art, and the carvings of Lionginas Šepka.

Saldutiškis Manor in Utena District is a Classical Jałowiecki family estate with a protected park, long linden alley, and rare trees. Owner Boleslovas Jałowieckis created the park and led construction of the narrow-gauge railway through Saldutiškis, so the town grew by the station.

Salos Manor stands on an island in Lake Dviragis in Rokiškis District, one of Lithuania's most distinctive manor sites, reached by bridge and causeway. Classical palace buildings, an old park, and a long history of Kęsgailai, Radziwiłłs, Moriconi, and Tyzenhauzai now function as a culture and events residence.

Šereitlaukis Manor Estate is a regionally significant manor in Rambynas Regional Park by the lower Nemunas. Grown from a sixteenth-century state manor, in the nineteenth century it became the region's largest landholding, famed for breeding horses and sheep; among its owners was the Prussian reformer H. T. von Schön. Today it retains masonry buildings, a history museum in the distillery, and a 1.5 km alley toward Chapel Hill.

Šešuolėliai Manor in Širvintos District is a rare English cottage-style manor shaped around 1900 by banker Petras Povilas Končius. In the interwar period it belonged to Colonel Jonas Variakojis and was visited by President Antanas Smetona; after 1998 it was restored by a Lithuanian from the United States and now functions as an events, concerts, and accommodation estate.

Siesikai Castle in Ukmergė District is a sixteenth-seventeenth-century castle and manor ensemble, regarded as the oldest surviving residential building of this type in Lithuania, with towers, vaulted cellars, Months Hall wall painting, and Daumantai-Siesickiai and Daugėla family layers.

Šilutė Hugo Scheu Manor (KVR code 663) is a Lithuania Minor heritage centre, bought in 1889 by Hugo Scheu (Šojus, 1845-1937), who created the first private museum in the Klaipėda Region here; since 2015 the restored complex has housed the Šilutė Hugo Scheu Museum.

Švėkšna Manor and Park is a state-protected Šilutė District heritage complex, mentioned from the fifteenth century in the Kęsgaila holdings and long owned by the Plater family (1766-1944): a mixed-plan park with radial linden alleys, ponds, canals, and Diana's sculpture on an island.

Tauragė Castle is not a medieval fortress but a tsarist customs and prison complex begun in the 1840s and reshaped in 1881-1886 into a historicist 'Prison Castle' with four towers. Today it houses Tauragė Regional Museum Santaka, operating since 1990.

Trakai Peninsula Castle is one of Lithuania's largest perimeter-type masonry castles, built in the fourteenth century on a peninsula between Lakes Galvė, Bernardinai, and Totoriškės. It is the older Trakai castle, partly preserved as remains, and should be distinguished from the famous Island Castle; a Dominican monastery later developed inside its territory.

Užventis Manor by the Venta is an old Samogitian manor estate where writer Šatrijos Ragana, Marija Pečkauskaitė, spent her youth and which inspired her novella Sename dvare. The old manor granary houses Užventis Local History Museum, with exhibitions on the writer and on Independence Act signatory Jonas Smilgevičius.

Vaitkuškis Manor near Ukmergė is now mostly the ruins of a once-grand neo-Gothic palace of the Kossakowski counts. The mid-nineteenth-century palace was designed by collector Stanislovas Feliksas Kosakovskis, and his son Stanislovas Kazimieras set up one of Lithuania's early manor photo studios here. The surviving photography archive is kept at the National M. K. Čiurlionis Museum of Art.

Veisiejai Manor is best understood today through the town plan, the former manor-estate setting, and the Veisiejai Regional Museum founded in 1998. The place links a manor mentioned in 1501, a lake landscape, and the memory of Ludwik Zamenhof, who completed the Esperanto project here in 1885.

Vilkaviškis Manor in Suvalkija is known above all for the events of June 1812: Napoleon briefly stopped here while the Grande Armée moved toward the Nemunas, and his proclamation effectively declaring war on Russia was read to the army. It is an old Oginski manor that should be distinguished from nearby Paežeriai Manor.

Žagarė Manor Estate is the historic centre of New Žagarė: a Classicist palace, Naryshkin-period buildings, old stud-farm heritage, a windmill, and a park of more than 70 ha where the Žagarė Regional Park visitor centre now operates.

Žeimiai Manor in Jonava District is one of the better-preserved late classicist manor estates in Aukštaitija. The palace has a rare Ionic-column portico, a 1768 Baroque chapel stands nearby, and farm buildings and a geometric-plan park survive. Today the manor lives as the artist-led Aikas Žado Laboratory.

Zypliai Manor (Cultural Heritage Register code 1616) is one of Suvalkija's most active manors: a Classicist palace built by Jonas Bartkovskis in 1845-1855, a Neo-Baroque reconstruction by Count Tomas Potocki at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a 21 ha park, and a restored ensemble since 2002 with exhibitions, a smithy, and ceramics workshops.

Biržai Castle is the Radziwiłł bastion-fortress complex beside Lake Širvėna, with reconstructed palace buildings, the Sėla museum, and a visible system of defensive ramparts.

Dubingiai Castle Site, known as Castle Hill, is one of the key Radziwiłł and Vytautas-era sites in Lithuania. On the Lake Asveja peninsula visitors see palace and church remains, the Radziwiłł burial place, an archaeological display, and a nature trail with lake panoramas.

Gediminas Castle Tower on Castle Hill is the last strong visible sign of Vilnius Upper Castle and one of the best places to understand the capital from above.

Kaunas Castle at the Nemunas and Neris confluence is one of Lithuania's oldest brick castles and the clearest sign of medieval Kaunas' defensive role.

The Klaipėda castle site is where the story of Memel and Klaipėda begins: a castle was built here in 1252, and today the bastions, posterns, and restored curtain-wall spaces hold the Castle Museum.

Liubavas Manor by the Žalesa River is one of the oldest Vilnius-region manors, now best known for its restored 1902 stone watermill museum, where century-old machinery works and five centuries of estate history are interpreted.

Markučiai Manor in Vilnius is a wooden manor residence built in 1867, with an authentic nineteenth-century interior, park, ponds, St Barbara Chapel, and a newly rethought story of Russian imperial heritage.

Medininkai Castle is the largest masonry enclosure castle by area in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: nearly 570 m of walls surround a quadrangular courtyard, and the restored donjon contains Trakai History Museum exhibitions.

Pakruojis Manor is the largest surviving manor-building complex in Lithuania, joining a late Classicist palace, farm ensemble, park, Kruoja bridge, and living-history programmes.

The Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius is a restored historic residence in the Lower Castle territory, where archaeological foundations, recreated halls, weaponry, everyday finds, and exhibitions tell the story of the political and cultural centre of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Panemunė Castle is one of Lithuania's best-preserved Renaissance residential castles, set on the Nemunas road with a historic park, ponds, and museum activity.

The Panemunė Castles Route links the 10,162 ha Panemunių Regional Park's lower Nemunas valley castles, manors, parks, and hillforts, from seventeenth-century Panemunė and sixteenth-century Raudonė to Belvederis, Veliuona, and Seredžius.

Plungė Oginski Manor is one of Samogitia's strongest manor ensembles: a Neo-Renaissance palace, two service wings, a Neo-Gothic stable, clocktower-orangerie, 58.3 ha park, and the cultural history of Mykolas Oginskis.

Raudondvaris Manor by the Nevėžis is one of Lithuania's clearest Renaissance manor ensembles, today operating as a cultural, event, and heritage space.

Raudonė Castle on the steep right slope of the Nemunas is one of the most vivid residential castles on the Panemunė road, known for red-brick towers and a park.

Sapieha Palace in Antakalnis is the only surviving Baroque-era magnate suburban palace and park ensemble in Lithuania: a late-seventeenth-century Sapieha residence that, after a long history of hospital, military schools, and vacancy, opened to the public in 2024 as a branch of the Contemporary Art Centre.

Taujėnai Manor is one of the most distinctive manors in the Ukmergė region: a Classical palace with a six-column portico, Radziwiłł and Moriconi history, a 15 ha park, an old wooden granary, and visitor-adapted grounds.

Trakai Island Castle in Lake Galvė is a red-brick Gothic castle begun by Kęstutis and completed by Vytautas, today serving as the core of the Trakai History Museum.

Trakų Vokė Manor on the edge of Vilnius was the representative residence of the Counts Tiškevičiai: an 1880 neoclassical palace by Leandro Marconi, valuable interiors, a 20 ha park shaped by Édouard François André's ideas, ponds, service buildings, and a reviving cultural space.

Užutrakis Manor is one of the most beautiful places in Trakai Historical National Park: Tiškevičiai palace, Édouard François André's park, Lake Galvė shore, and a view toward Trakai Island Castle.

Verkiai Manor Estate is one of Lithuania's most valuable Classical manor estates: its surviving outbuildings, pavilion, remains of the central palace, 36 ha English-style park structure, Neris valley viewpoints, and Verkiai Regional Park visitor centre form a layered Vilnius heritage landscape.