Birštonas is a balneological resort and spa town in Lithuania, about 30 km south of Kaunas on the right bank of the Nemunas River, and the administrative center of Birštonas municipality. It was first mentioned in the fourteenth century as a homestead at salty water and appears in Teutonic Knights chronicles of 1382. It received town rights in 1529, and the modern resort was founded in 1846, drawing visitors for its mineral water and curative peat mud treatments. Pine forests surround it, and it serves as a center of the Nemunas Loops Regional Park. The jazz festival held in the town since 1980 has long earned it the name of the Lithuanian jazz Mecca.
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