On the highest point of Basanavičiaus Str. in Vilnius stands the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Michael and St. Constantine built on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the Russian ruling imperial dynasty of the Romanovs in 1913 [...]
HISTORICAL VILNIUS & TRAKAI
Around Rūdninkų Square in the Old Town of Vilnius, there are several houses-monuments like in Karmelitų St. with renovated Gothic details on the exterior and the 17th-century decorative roof beams in the interior [...]
The Renaissance garden of the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius was established by the Lithuanian Grand Duchess of the Italian origin Bona Sforza (1494-1557) in the first half of the 16th century [...]
The Church of the Heart of Jesus, or the Visitationists Church and the Convent of the Visitationists is situated in Vilnius out of the Old Town close to the Missionary Church, and together they constitute an impressive ensemble on the Saviour Hill that can be seen well from different sites of the city of Vilnius [...]
In 1988 the book stocks of the Library amounted to 5 million volumes. The initiative of readers increased immensely. The Library mounted a number of meetings and events dedicated to eminent cultural personalities who started the movement of National Revival in past years [...]
The Old Arsenal, today the Museum of Applied Art, is a massive two-story building that was build-up by the Polish King and the Grand Duke of Lithuania in the early 16th century over part of the old city wall at the east of the complex of the Upper and Lower Castles, furthest from the grand-ducal palace, thus minimizing the risk from any fire in it [...]
The museum is located in the building of the Old Arsenal in Vilnius [...]
The Church of St.George the Martyr in Vilnius was built in 1506 for the Carmelite monks who had settled in the Radziwiłł Estate and for whose maintenance Vilnius Voivode Michael Radziwiłł allotted land and funding as well [...]
St. Casimir's Chapel is located on the south-east corner of the Vilnius Cathedral. It is the largest of the chapels and was the largest single element of the former cathedral's building to be incorporated intact into the new one by Lithuanian architect Laurinas Stuoka-Gucevičius at the turn of the 19th century [...]
It is comprised of a monastery, a Baroque church, and buildings of one of the first hospitals in Vilnius. It is located nearby the Presidential Palace [...]
The chapel was built in 1624-1636 to hold the remains of St. Casimir who was canonized in 1604. The chapel is part of the Cathedral Basilica in Vilnius [...]
The museum building was a home of Dr. Jurgis and Marija Šlapelis at Pilies St. 40 in Vilnius' Old Town, who were active figures in the national revival of Lithuanians in the early 20th century, in particular through Marija's activities as a publisher and bookseller [...]
It is a flat in Vilnius where Adam Mickiewicz lived and worked in December 1822. Personal items of his are held at the museum in Bernardinų St. No. 11. On display is material about the poet's life and work, translations into Lithuanian and other languages, and permanent exposition on the Philomaths [...]
The Bastion of Vilnius consists of three parts: a tower, a corridor-tunnel, and a casemate. The tower was built into the defensive wall. Behind the defensive wall, the hill naturally sloped down at a right angle [...]
The Bastion was Vilnius' arsenal of weapons, ammunition, weapons supplies and gunpowder. The city's magistracy was in charge of the arming and repairs of the bastion [...]
The Bastion, an artillery fortification, was built near Vilnius' defensive wall in the first half of the 17th century [...]
The buildings in the Jewish Quarter in Vilnius housed many shops and stores, and many poor Jews lived there. These were probably the most densely populated premises in Vilnius [...]
In this house in Antokolski Str. No. 4 the famous 19th-century Jewish sculptor, Mark Antokolski, lived in 1843-1862 [...]
The Jewish St. and Gaon St. were all the time the center and axis of the Jewish Quarter in Vilnius' Old Town [...]
All guided sightseeing tours in New Trakai by Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic [...]
All Vilnius-sightseeing guided tours by Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic [...]
The Jewish community of Vilnius was tragically exterminated during WWII - nearly 60.000 people [...]
A Jewish Quarter (known as a ghetto in West Europe) was formed in the Middle Ages in Vilnius in the area bordered Dominikonų, Vokiečių and Stiklų Streets in today's Old Town [...]
Christmas Tree decoration in Vilnius in front of Cathedral Basilica, December 2019 [...]
A Japanese Chiune Sugihara saved more than 6.000 Jews from the holocaust at the beginning of WWII [...]
The Upper (Higher) Castle of Vilnius is located on the top of the Gediminas Hill that is a typical Lithuanian mound, the largest such hill of natural origin in Lithuania [...]
