A pump-room is a term derived from a French word meaning a building on a mineral water spring. Such pump-rooms began appearing in Birštonas as the town gained popularity amongst those who propagated healthy lifestyle and who wanted to choose such lifestyle during the 19th century. In 1879, the owner of the resort, Ignotas Kvinta, named a spring after his daughter, Viktorija. The priest and writer Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas, who was a great fan of resort, later proposed the name of Vytautas, which today is almost synonymous with mineral water in Lithuania. This spring, however, which featured a wooden sculpture of a whale nearby, was flooded by Nemunas after the establishment of the Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant. The sculpture, by the way, is now a part of the town’s coat of arms. The pump-room at the historic Tulpės sanatorium is known in the resort for its representative, even surreal forms, reminiscent of a fairy tale house. The round pump-room has two entrances, extended with spectacular loggias. The tower on the roof is reminiscent of a lantern. Today, the water supplied to Birštonas pump-rooms and the mineral water bottling plant is of low and medium mineralisation without specific components (sodium chloride). This pump-room is supplied with mineral water of medium mineralisation (more than 8 g/l), similar to the historic mineral water of a similar composition, Vytautas. It’s extracted from a depth of 125 meters.

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