Medininkai travel guide

Medininkai (Miedniki Królewskie) is a village and commune in Lithuania, 26km from Vilnius and 2km from the Lithuanian-Belarusian border. According to 2001 census, the village had just more than 500 residents. The village is situated on the Medininkai highland, and the highest points, Juozapinė Hill and Aukštojas Hill, are just a couple kilometres away. The village is famous for the ruins of Medininkai Castle and for Soviet OMON attack on the border post in the early days of Lithuania's independence. On July 31, 1991 seven customs officers were shot and another one barely survived. Formerly in Second Polish Republic as Miedniki Królewskie.
The commune has more than 1500 inhabitants, 85% Polish, 8% Belarusian, 3% Lithuanian and 3% Russian http://www.tygodnik.lt/200733/samorz1.html. (...) more....