Shchuchin

This small town gets its first mention in the documents of the Great Lithuanian Principality in the 16^th century. Near to the town’s big central square stand the St. Theresa’s Catholic Church, an Orthodox church and late in 18^th to early 19^th century traders’ houses. A Piars Collegium stands attached to the back of the Catholic church. A seminary and a high school were founded there in 1726. In the 18^th to 19^th centuries, the famous professors Kazimir Narbut, Stanislav Boniface Yundill, Anel Dovgird all lectured here. The famous scientist Ignaty Domeiko was also a student of he Shchuchin Collegium.

St. Theresa’s Catholic Church was built in 1827 in the style of Classicism, alongside a late Baroque Piars Church. In the 19^th century the Catholic church was remodeled by known Belarussian painters Andriolli and Silivanovich.

St. Mikhail the Archangel’s Orthodox Church is a building belonging to the second half of the 19^th century. Along with the Catholic church and one-storey houses, it fits aptly into the original architectural ensemble.

The palace of the Drutsky-Lyubetskys family is located in an old botanical park that was founded in the second half of the 18^th century by the botanist B.Yundill. The old palace built in 1715 by Yuzef Piolli was reconstructed in the second half of the 19^th century in an early Classicism style by the architect de Flaners.

Twenty kilometers from Shchuchin is another small town – Zheludok.