Kurkliai
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| District : | Utena | ||
| Rajong municipality : | Anykščiai | ||
| Coordinates : | 55 ° 25 ′ N , 25 ° 4 ′ E | ||
| Inhabitants (place) : | 374 (2011) | ||
| Time zone : | EET (UTC + 2) | ||
| Postal code : | 29015 | ||
| Status: | Town, center of a part of the municipality |
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Kurkliai (Polish: Kurkle) is a town (miestelis) in northeast Lithuania .
Location and inhabitants
Kurkliai is located in the Utena district in the Anykščiai district, 15 km south of the municipality's core town. The place had 374 inhabitants in 2011 and is the seat of the district of the same name ( Kurklių seniūnija ).
Attractions
Sights include the wooden synagogue and the wooden church in the village. The synagogue was used as a barn in the times of the Soviet Union and is in poor condition today. In the Anykščiai Regional Park ( Anykščių regioninis parkas ) there is the huge boulder Puntukas with a mass of about 265 t. This boulder was deposited here from Finland over 18,000 years ago, from the Ice Age. The two portraits of the Lithuanian Atlantic pilots Darius and Girėnas were attached to it.
sons and daughters of the town
- Antanas Paškus ( 1924-2008 ), Lithuanian Catholic philosopher, psychologist and professor.