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THE FIRST IN LITHUANIA MONTE PACIS HOSPITALITY COMPLEX IN THE FUNCTIONING PAŽAISLIS MONASTERY

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„And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined“ THE BOOK OF ISAIAH, CHAPTER 25

Gastronomic culture at MONTE PACIS

Chef Donatas Dobrovolskas, Culinary Olympics bronze medal winner

MONTE PACIS chef Darius Dabrovolskas is the bronze medal winner in IKA / Culinary Olympics. A la Carte menu is a modern and tasteful combination of gastronomic heritage from former and present époques and cultures of Pažaislis, featuring local products, fruit and vegetables grown in the monastery gardens, genuine monastic beer and wine.

Dining room THE DINING ROOM has absorbed the grand history of this place, but the bustle from the nearby kitchen, informal atmosphere, and pleasant waiting staff promise a snug little party. Here unsophisticated plain and fresh food is served on wooden tables accompanied with draft wine and beer. Fresh bread, pies and buns are baked every day using the recipes of the nuns with jams made of fruit and berries from the monastery gardens and linden flower tee is steeped.

Restaurant The palatial MONTE PACIS restaurant invites those, who want to have a festive evening with quiet live music and magnificent Pažaislis Church in the background. Monastic wines prevail in the respectable wine list.

Every week the award-winning chef presents a new menu for degustation and provides MONTE PACIS guests with an opportunity to enjoy and taste new dishes, representing the newest trends in gastronomy, and inspired by this unique location and invaluable friendship with the sisters of Saint Casimir.

Coach Square terrace and Linden Alley At the same time when Pažaislis church towers were being built, the alley for guests to arrive and the square for the coaches to turn around were being paved. During the warm season a salad and barbeque bar is open on the terrace of the coach square. The terrace is also used for live music concerts, ceremonial events and private gala parties.

The guests favour tables decorated in different styles along the Linden Alley, romantic nights in wall arches, and simply having a good time in impressive surroundings.

Accommodation Staying in a small MONTE PACIS hotel is a unique opportunity to feel the pace of nuns’ life, to experience the intimacy of the functioning monastery and the peace of a regional park. Here two royal apartments, four deluxe and seven standard rooms are arranged by carefully preserving the historical and cultural heritage.

Apartments Respectable founder Christopher Sigismund Pac’s apartment is located in the southern part, and elegant Countess Clara Isabelle de Mailly Lascaris (Pac wife’s) apartment is located on the northern part of the hospitality complex.

LET ALL GUESTS WHO ARRIVE BE RECEIVED AS CHRIST THE RULE OF ST. BENEDICT, CHAPTER 53

Named deluxe rooms All four rooms are named after the royal guests of MONTE PACIS: King of Poland and Lithuania Jan Sobieski, King of Sweden Charles XII, the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, and the Russian Tsar Nicolay I.

Standard rooms The second floor of the Hospitality Complex houses seven standard rooms named after MONTE PACIS nuns and artists who lived and created here: Father Jerome, Mother Kazimiera Kaupaite, author of Tsarist Russia anthem Aleksey Lvov, architect Giovanni Batista Frediani, Painter Michelangelo Palloni, brothers architects Carlo and Pietro Puttini, and sculptor Joan Merli.

The rooms offer quiet and beautiful views of Linden Alley and Kaunas Lagoon. These rooms are furnished in ascetic style but also have all modern appliances necessary for comfortable and peaceful rest of the guests.

Halls The Founders Hall

A grand spacious state room on the ground floor is designed in late baroque style and decorated with frescos and valuable authentic paintings of Itallian M. A. Paloni. There are fragments of survived wall painting, a sandstone fireplace and an oak wall cabinet with baroque fittings. Official celebrations and conferences, gala protocol and private parties, small cultural and scientific events become exceptional in historic atmosphere of the hall.

The guests will feel creative (up to 100 people can comfortably sit in theatre style), festive (up to 90 guests can be seated at round tables) and very special in small companies or couples celebrating important occasions, seated in king-size chairs at tables laid with porcelain and crystal.

G. Frediani’s Hall Bright and cosy G. Frediani’s Hall has remarkable views over the windows: a stunningly beautiful Pažaislis churchyard on the West and romantic sights of Linden Alley and Kaunas Lagoon on the East. The guests call this hall a loge as the possibility to watch Pažaislis Festival concerts or other events gives it an exceptional status.

This unique room will make the engagement, wedding, baptise parties or other bright personal events very special. Conferences and business meetings held here will have not only the required quietness but also serenity and concentration.

Work is more productive in non-traditional environment.

A party is more meaningful in an exceptional place.

MONTE PACIS history The sanctuary in a remote woody place outside Kaunas was built for Camaldolese monks in the 17th century by the Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Christopher Sigismund Pac (1621–1684).

The architectural ensemble was designed by the Italian architect Giovanni Battista Frediani, decorated with sculptures and stucco mouldings made

by Lombard craftsmen and frescos of Michelangelo Palloni from Florence. In 1712 the Church of Visitation of St. Virgin Mary was consecrated. In 1812 the monastery was used by the French emperor Napoleon and his army. In 1831 a monastery of orthodox Uspenia monks was opened here after the visit of Russian Tsar Nicolay I. In 1921 the Lithuanian Government gave the devastated Pažaislis Monastery to the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Casimir from Chicago.

Today Pažaislis Camaldolese Monastery is not only a functioning monastery housing and maintained by the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Casimir, but also a unique state protected baroque monument considered to be one of the most beautiful examples of late baroque in northern and eastern Europe.

The founders Christopher Sigismund Pac and his wife Clara Isabelle built a separate building next to the monastery for themselves and their guests.

Today the former foresteria houses the hospitality complex MONTE PACIS.

Contacts +370 37 458282 info@montepacis.lt T. Masiulio g. 31, Kaunas 52436, Lithuania We are easy to reach by driving 7.5 km away from Vilnius – Kaunas highway.

The location is marked on the map www.goo.gl/DPacu A spacious parking lot at no cost for the guests.

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