Monument to the Litas and the Euro

Not far from Birštonas you can find the "Monument to the Litas and the Euro". For a long time nobody knew who had put up this "monument". In Soviet times a stone was placed at the turn-off to Nemajūnai, on which the name of the Nemajūnai collective farm was to be carved. Locals called this monument "the tablet" or "the rouble". After independence was restored, only the stone remained. When the euro was introduced, the "departing" currency – the litas – appeared overnight, immortalised. In just the same way, a sculpture of the euro later appeared overnight too. Only after some time did it emerge that the monument to the litas and the euro had been put up by Kęstutis Prakapas from Jieznas.