All guided sightseeing tours in New Trakai by Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic [...]
All Vilnius-sightseeing guided tours by Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic [...]
Christmas Tree decoration in Vilnius in front of Cathedral Basilica, December 2019 [...]
The heart of Vilnius is at the confluence of the Neris River and smaller Vilnia River. The...
Vilnius was called Jerusalem of the North since the mid-18th century till WWII. Before 1941, around 60.000...
The buildings in the Jewish Quarter in Vilnius housed many shops and stores, and many poor Jews...
A Jewish Quarter (known as a ghetto in West Europe) was formed in the Middle Ages in...
The Upper (Higher) Castle of Vilnius is located on the top of the Gediminas Hill that is...
Vilnius has the most northern Baroque & the most eastern Gothic Old Town in Europe. Enjoy the...
The Vilnius Picture Gallery (Didžioji Str. No. 5) displays Lithuanian art from the 15th century up to...
This Vilnius church was built in 1441, and soon after given to the Dominican Order for their...
There are 16 altars from artificial colored marble inside, along with expensive wall paintings together with a...
Karol Sztral's house in Pilies Str., today the House of Signatories. The 20 members of the Council...
Church of St. Michael the Archangel in Vilnius is the Renaissance-style Roman Catholic church, built in 1594...
The Church of St. Theresa is one of the most excellent examples of early Baroque monuments in...
The church was established in 1555 and was visited not only by the German merchants in Vilnius...
Lithuanian National Museum (history & ethnology) is housed in the reconstructed 18-century building of the so-called New...
In 1992 the French National Geography Institute carried out new calculations, according to which, the geographical centre...
Upon returning from battle in the Crimea, Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas settled the Karaites, both soldiers, and...
The belfry of the Cathedral Basilica (height - 57 m with the cross) is many-layered both from...
Mindaugas was the only King of Lithuania from 1253 to 1263, a ruler who created Lithuania's statehood....
New Trakai was the residence of Lithuanian Grand Dukes. In 1341-1342 Lithuanian Grand Duke Kestutis moved the...
Baily (courtyard) of Trakai Island Castle. The castle was built from the beginning of the 14th century...
Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki lived in this house in the courtyard with breaks from 1811 to 1829....
Vilnius Church of St. Archangel Raphael and the Jesuit Monastery stand at the Neris right riverside, nearby...
The residential palace of Trakai Island Castle is comprised of two parallel corpuses that were joined by...
This church, established by the Franciscan Order before Lithuania's Christianization, is one of the oldest buildings in...
The National Martynas Mažvydas Library was established in 1963 and is located next to the Parliament...
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis (1875-1911) was a famous Lithuanian Symbolist painter and composer as well as a pioneer...
The current Classicist Town Hall was designed by Vilnius Classicist architect Laurinas Gucevičius in 1785-1799 after the...
These buildings are monuments of late Baroque. The church is the last one Baroque church built in...
The observatory building with Classicist cylindric towers was build to secure the heavy meridian quadrant. The courtyard...