Onuškis

Onuškis lies southwest of Trakai on the road toward Alytus. The settlement grew beside a royal manor established on the site of Skurdoniai village, and historians trace it back at least to the late fifteenth century. A market square and streets took shape around the manor and church. Fire and upheaval troubled the small town, but it was rebuilt. A parish school is first recorded in 1777, when its three pupils served a parish of more than a thousand people.