A Japanese Chiune Sugihara saved more than 6.000 Jews from the holocaust at the beginning of WWII […]
Category: Out of Vilnius Old Town
The Calvary Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross
Construction of Calvary Road in Vilnius started in 1662 , and in 7 years the Calvary Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross and 35 wooden Stations of the Cross, imitating the Road of Christ’s Passions in Jerusalem, were built […]
The Building in Vilnius Street No. 25
The building in Vilnius Street in Vilnius No. 25 […]
Traditional Wooden Houses in Žvėrynas
Žvėrynas is a suburb in Vilnius on the right bank of the Neris River, presently in the process of urbanistic merging with the city centre […]
The Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
By the Neris riverside in Vilnius, there is the Library palace built-in 1885 on the site where the old estate of the magnate family of Radziwiłł was […]
Church of St. Bartholomew
The church is given over to the Catholic Belarus community of Vilnius in 1997. It is located in Užupio Street in Vilnius in the district of Užupis […]
Choral Synagogue in Vilnius
The only working synagogue in Vilnius is built in 1903 according to the design of David Rosenhaus […]
The Church of the Holy Trinity and Trinapolis in Vilnius
Construction of the Church of the Holy Trinity took place from 1695 to 1722. The architect was the Italian master Pietro Putini […]
Church of St. Francis and St. Bernardine (Interior)
The main altar of the church, that is one of the favorites in Vilnius, is in the form of Late Baroque and it is made from dark wood […]
Church of St. Anne (Interior)
The interior of the Church of St. Anne in Vilnius was reconstructed in 1902-1909, while the outside has survived unchanged since the beginning of the 16th century […]
Church of St. Francis and St. Bernardine
Franciscan monks built in Vilnius a spacious church and monastery at the turn of the 16th century. The land was provided by Lithuanian and Polish ruler Casimir Jagiellon, while funding came from the noble Radziwiłł family […]
