The buildings surrounding the courtyard housed a dormitory for poor students […]
Month: October 2023
Alumnatas Courtyard
The buildings surrounding Alumnatas Courtyard held the papal spiritual seminary in the period from 1582 to 1798 […]
St. Ignatius Street
This by-street in Vilnius on its southwest side has the Dominican Monastery, and on the opposite side – the Church of St. Ignatius and the ensemble of the Jesuit Novitiate […]
“Republic of Užupis”
The artists’ community of Užupis (beyond the river) district of Vilnius has its own “Republic of Užupis” with a Constitution and holidays […]
Church of St. Catherine and Former Benedictine Monastery
Church of St. Catherine in Vilnius is built in typical Vilnius Baroque style. It is a Late Baroque church once accompanied with Benedictine Monastery […]
Sapieha Estate and Park
Between the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul and Antakalnis Cemetery there is a large plot of land with remnants of the 17th-century noble estate by the great Hetman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Casimir Sapieha the Younger (1637-1720) who built a palace on this site in 1691 […]
Monument to Chiune Sugihara in Vilnius
A Japanese Chiune Sugihara saved more than 6.000 Jews from the holocaust at the beginning of WWII […]
Church of St. Theresa and the Monastery of the Barefoot Carmelites
The Church of St. Theresa is one of the most excellent examples of early Baroque monuments in Vilnius […]
The Trakai Peninsula Castle
Lithuanian Grand Duke Kęstutis (1345-1377 & 1381-11382) begin building the Trakai Peninsula Castle in the mid-14th century […]
Royal Palace – Inner Courtyard
Inner Courtyard of the Royal Palace (Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania) built in the 16th-century Italian Renaissance style […]
Island Castle of Trakai
The castle, built on an island in Lake Galvė, is a unique Gothic defensive complex, able to be reached only by bridge, and which was never overtaken by enemies […]
