Aukštadvaris Regional Park
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Aukštadvaris Regional Park, established in 1992, covers 17,240 hectare
s in southeastern Lithuania
near the town of Aukštadvaris
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The park contains about 80 lakes, burial grounds, villages, and designated recreational areas. Among its cultural landmarks is an oak dedicated to the poet Adam Mickiewicz
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Hectare
The hectare is a metric unit of area defined as 10,000 square metres , and primarily used in the measurement of land. In 1795, when the metric system was introduced, the are was defined as being 100 square metres and the hectare was thus 100 ares or 1/100 km2...
s in southeastern Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
near the town of Aukštadvaris
Aukštadvaris
Aukštadvaris is a town in Trakai district municipality in Lithuania on Verknė river. According to 2001 census, it had population of 1031.Aukštadvaris features Malewski Palace, built in 1837 by Antoni Malewski, which remained with the family until World War I...
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The park contains about 80 lakes, burial grounds, villages, and designated recreational areas. Among its cultural landmarks is an oak dedicated to the poet Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Mickiewicz
Adam Bernard Mickiewicz ) was a Polish poet, publisher and political writer of the Romantic period. One of the primary representatives of the Polish Romanticism era, a national poet of Poland, he is seen as one of Poland's Three Bards and the greatest poet in all of Polish literature...
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