Alytus

This southern Lithuanian city on the Nemunas river, Alytus is the historical centre of the Dzūkija region and has been divided into two distinct halves — Alytus I and Alytus II — for centuries. The city holds four Catholic churches, a regional history museum founded in 1928, and a 1929 monument called the Angel of Freedom, destroyed by lightning in 1934, rebuilt in 1937, demolished by Soviet authorities in 1952, and restored again in 1991. A pedestrian and cycling bridge now spans the Nemunas on the piers of an 1899 railway bridge.

• Population49,195
• Nearest water from center 1.2 km0.7 mi
• Nearest mountain from center 22 km14 mi