On the eleventh of September twenty ten, on the holiday Day of the city the monument to Lieŭ Sapieha was established near the park entrance the. The bronze monument of three metres was made by a famous sculptor of Minsk Leŭ Ahanaŭ.

Thanks to Lieŭ Sapieha, in the end of the sixteenth century Liepieĺ began its history on its present site. The first record of Liepieĺ dates to fourteen thirty-nine. On the nineteenth of May fifteen eighty-six Lieŭ Sapieha bought a Leple estate. He began building in a new place and named this place Nowy Liepieĺ. From those times Liepieĺ hasn't changed its location and only a name of a village Stary Liepieĺ reminds of its first placement. Lieŭ Sapieha was a very influential man in Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He was holding the most important state offices of a subchancellor, a chancellor, a warboss and a hetman. Also Lieŭ Sapieha bears direct on creation of the Third Statute of GDL which was acting on our lands from fifteen eighty-eight till eighteen forty. Lieŭ Sapieha left his mark as a perfect government leader and diplomat. On the monument Lieŭ Sapieha is shown full length in ceremonial attire with a cane head, an attribute of hetman power, and a sabre in hand.

Publication date: 13.06.2017.

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