Žvelgaitis Hill (Žagarė I Mound)

Žvelgaitis Hill (Žagarė I Mound)

One of the most prominent stops of the Žagarė Nature Trail is Žvelgaitis Hill (Žagarė I Mound) – a national monument of archaeology, mythology and landscape (No. 23857). According to the popular local myth, the castle of the Lithuanian Duke Žvelgaitis stood on this mound in the 13^th century. However, historical sources indicate that a Semigallian tribe lived here at that time, and Žvelgaitis, who clashed with them, died here. According to archaeologists, in the late 13^th to 15^th centuries this place may have been the site of a wooden castle of the Archbishop of Riga, and later of the Livonian Order. In the 16^th to 18^th centuries, the Mound was where the Old Žagarė Manor stood, which belonged to the noblemen Sirevičius and Umiastovskis.

P. Cvirkos g., Žagarė

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