All guided sightseeing tours in New Trakai by Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic [...]
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All Vilnius-sightseeing guided tours by Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic [...]
The heart of Vilnius is at the confluence of the Neris River and smaller Vilnia River. The Old Town of Vilnius is between these two rivers [...]
The National Martynas Mažvydas Library was established in 1963 and is located next to the Parliament (Seimas) building at Gedimino Ave. 51 [...]
The residential palace of Trakai Island Castle is comprised of two parallel corpuses that were joined by walls, as well as a defensive tower (dungeon) in the front. Shooting slots are created in the upper level of the tower and both corpuses [...]
In 1992 the French National Geography Institute carried out new calculations, according to which, the geographical centre of Europe is located 25 km to the North from Lithuania's capital Vilnius [...]
Baily (courtyard) of Trakai Island Castle. The castle was built from the beginning of the 14th century to the beginning of the 15th century on three islands: swampy areas were filled with rock and gravel in order to create one single island [...]
Lithuanian Grand Duke Kęstutis (1345-1377 & 1381-11382) begin building the Trakai Peninsula Castle in the mid-14th century. The first castle was made of wood. Later it was made with brick and had 10 defensive towers that were joined by a wall that was 10 meters high [...]
Vileišis estate is located at Antakalnio St. 4, across the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul. The main house was built in 1904-1906 by the Lithuanian businessman and public figure Petras Vileišis according to a design by engineer August Klein [...]
30 km west of Vilnius the town of New Trakai, its reconstructed immense Lake Galvė Island Castle, and the surroundings, including Old Trakai and 32 lakes, are protected within the Trakai Historical National Park, established in 1991 [...]
