The smallest, but the best KNOWN in all of Lithuania is the old town of Širvintos region eldership. There are 18 villages and 7 homesteads. Larger villages - Kunigiškiai, Pakalniškiai, Klišabalė. The center of the seniority is the town of Kernavė. The area of the eldership is 4066 ha. There are 397 inhabitants.
- Kernavė is one of the symbols of statehood, the capital of pagan Lithuania and is surrounded by many legends. Here, on the picturesque coast of Neris in the arms of the Pajauta valley, there are five mounds, near which settlements have been built since ancient times. In a small patch of 194 hectares of land, the preserved cultural values, abundant archeological findings, and the landscape that formed in the course of history speak of the cultures that lived in this territory for 11 thousand years, from the late Paleolithic era (IX millennium BC) to the present day.
- In order to preserve the territorial complex of cultural heritage values in 1989 a cultural reserve was established. in 2004 Kernavė was included in the list of UNESCO protected world heritage sites.
- In order to make the archaeological site familiar and attractive, the museum of the archaeological site of Kernavė conducts educational programs. Since 1999 experimental archeology festivals "Days of Living Archeology in Kernavė" are organized to celebrate the State Day (the coronation of Lithuanian King Mindaugas).
- Since 1967 the traditional summer sunflower’s festival called “Rasa” is held in Kernavė. On June 23d thousands of people flock to Kernavė. In Kernavė the festival “Rasa” is highly awaited since, it is one of the most important summer events which represents Lithuania to both local and foreign tourists. People are attracted to the old rituals of the holiday: herb picking, weaving wreaths, games, spells, bonfires, lighting pyres, floating wreaths, washing with dew, escorting and welcoming the sun. All these ceremonies are accompanied by ceremonial chants, folk songs, dances and games.
- Other objects: wooden chapel, brick chapel-mausoleum, Kernavė church.
- In 2006 in September in commemoration of Forester's Day the tourist trail "Come human, silence will embrace you" was opened. It is 2,600 m. long, equipped with 21 resting places, information stands, decorated with wooden sculptures.
- Other services are offered to tourists. In the center of the town operates the sculpture studio-gallery "Šulinys" (well) of the sculptor Henrikas Orakauskas. The exposition includes original works out of metal, plastic, wood, and marble. Near Kernavė in the village of Pakalniškiai there is a private gallery "Mirnabalis" - an art center of fireclay ceramics in a natural shelter. Original ceramics, paintings, and sculptures can be purchased here. You can also learn the secrets of ceramics yourself. In the center of the town – a private "Armonika" (harmonica) museum of Jonas Pivoras can be found and next to the church in the old parsonage there is the Museum of Church Relics, on Pilkapiai Street - the S. V. Mitchell gallery, "Bardo".
- A museum of battles for freedom of the Širvintos region is being created in the former Kernavė school.
- In 2015 the exposition of the sculptor Ipolitas Užkurnis was opened in Kernavė.
- In the village of Ardiškis there are cultural heritage objects of regional importance that are entered in the register of cultural values: Ardiškis ancient settlement, ardiškis burial ground, Ardiškis borrows.
