Šeteniai

Šeteniai

Infobox Settlement
subdivision_type = Country
subdivision_name = LTU
timezone=EET
utc_offset=+2
timezone_DST=EEST
utc_offset_DST=+3
map_caption = Location of Šeteniai
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image_caption = Czesław Miłosz Cultural Center
subdivision_type1=Ethnographic region
subdivision_name1 = Aukštaitija
subdivision_type2=County
subdivision_name2 = Autolink|Kaunas County
subdivision_type3=Municipality
subdivision_name3 = Kėdainiai district municipality
subdivision_type4=Elderate
subdivision_name4 = Vilainiai elderate
latd=55|latm=23|lats=41|latNS=N|longd=24|longm=01|longs=58|longEW=E
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population_total = 35
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population_as_of = 2001

Šeteniai ( _pl. Szetejnie) is a village in Kėdainiai district municipality, Lithuania. It is situated 13 km north of Kėdainiai, on the left bank of the Nevėžis River.

In June 12 1999 in the former barn of the manor where Czesław Miłosz was born, a Czesław Miłosz cultural center was founded. There is an exhibition dedicated to Miłosz. The place nowadays is used for cultural activities – conferences and meetings are held there. The cultural center is surrounded by a former park filled with recent addition of wood carvings by international artists .

Famous people

In Šeteniai were born:
* last interbellum Lithanian Minister of Foreign affairs Juozas Urbšys (1896–1991)
* Nobel Prize laureate Czesław Miłosz (1911–2004)


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