Kruonis

Kruonis
Town
Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant
Coat of arms of Kruonis
Kruonis is located in Lithuania
Kruonis
Kruonis
Location in Lithuania
Coordinates: 54°45′30″N 24°14′40″E / 54.75833°N 24.24444°E / 54.75833; 24.24444
Country Lithuania
Ethnographic regionAukštaitija
County Kaunas County
Population
 (2011)
 • Total661
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)
Kruonis church
Teodoras Bohdanas Oginskis (1568–1640) tombstone in the church of Kruonis

Kruonis (Polish: Kronie, Yiddish: קראָן, Kron) is a small town, located 37 km (23 mi) east of Kaunas, in Kaunas County, central Lithuania. The name of Kruonis comes from a small creek Kruonė. In 2011 it had a population of 661.[1] The center of Kruonis is a state-protected urbanistic monument. The only in the Baltic States Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant (the KPSP) is situated 3 km (1.9 mi) north of Kruonis. Each year a music festival Renesanso naktys Kruonyje (The Nights of Renaissance in Kruonis) takes place in the church where the classical music of the composers of 16th-17th centuries being performed.

  1. ^ "2011 census". Statistikos Departamentas (Lithuania). Retrieved August 14, 2017.