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Labunava mansion was located in Labunava, current Pelėdnagių eldership, Kėdainiai district. Two stylistic architectural brick towers survived from the estate's former farmhouse.

In Labunava mansion neo-Gothic, red ceramic brick brick tower with a bivalve roof located near the highway 1906 Aukštutiniai Kaniūkai–Babtai–Labūnava–Kėdainiai is better known and visible. It is marked with an information board and a mast bearing with the flag of Lithuania has been placed next to it. About 350 m northeast of the latter, to the side of the park with the pond, there is a second tower on the downhill. It's non-orennesan, square-plan, three-storey. The road is reached after passing the courtyard of an apartment building and farm buildings, hereinafter referred to as a stone-reinforced road on the southwestern edge of the park. As of 2020, the second tower was uncleaned (at the stage of protracted repairs), unfit for visitation.

History
Known since the sixteenth century. In the eighteenth century Labunava manor owned 7 landslides – 200 Welsh farmland, 100 Welsh meadows and forest. According to some sources (Trakai City Book 1739), Stefan Pliszkowski ruled the estate in the first half of the eighteenth century.

The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries belonged to landlords Zabieles. In the mid-nineteenth century, there was an old wooden palace building at the farmhouse, an abandoned park with bodies of water. In the late nineteenth century, the counts Charles Zabiela (1868-1931) and his father Henry Zabiela embarked on the renovation of the homestead of Labunava Manor. In 1880, architect Karol Kozłowski drafted a neo-Orennessee-style palace. In 1890, it built an ornate palace. In the same year, three historic towers (neo-Gothic, so-called English Gothic and non-Orennesan) were likely to emerge under the same Kozlovsky project. The estate's farmhouse was surrounded by a brick fence with the park and garden, which also connected three towers. Neo-Gothic gates led to the palace. During both world wars, palaces, a fence with a gate and an English Gothic-style tower were destroyed. To this day, 2 towers remained, neo-Gothic and non-orangular.

The Mansion Tower
Since ancient times, towers with thick brick walls 1 m thick and 6 m height have remained in the territory of Labunava Manor. Inside them were three-storey rooms. Two families lived in Labunava Manor Tower after the war, with Lithuanian forest brothers returning from the woods to celebrate Christmas Eve and Christmas on December 24, 1946. After the tower was surrounded by Russian soldiers, there was a shooting. After 5 hours, the guerrilla resistance was broken as the latter ran out of ammunition. The tower has been restored.