Cemetery of Bitėnai

It is well kept cemetery, located at the foot of the hill Rambynas. Sometimes this cemetery is called as Lithuania Minor Pantheon. In this cemetery are buried Vidūnas, Martynas Jankus, Valteris – Kristupas Banaitis, Jonas Vanagaitis, Elena Grigolaitytė– Kondratavičienė, Aleksandras Žvinakis and other famous persons. Cemetery is decorated with metal gates made ​​by Martynas and Marija Purviniai project. In the upper part of the gate appears words from Vydūnas ,,You are shaft of light”. Community of Vydūnas members cordoned cemetery territory by a wooden fence and Julius Balčiauskas planted ornamental trees and shrubs.