A Virtual Journey Through Historical Vilnius & New Trakai
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 […]
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 […]
The Kenessa of Vilnius is built from 1911 to 1923 in the Moorish style. It is one of two open Kenessas in Lithuania (another one is in New Trakai) […]
A gleaming white monument in Vilnius marks the site of the former Crooked Castle. That was a sprawling wooden structure and was destroyed in the siege by the forces of the Teutonic Order and Vytautas the Great in 1390 […]
In Vilnius, in the River Neris loop, stretches a large Vingio pine forest (160 ha) surrounded by the river from three sides […]
The historical building in Tyzenhauzų Str. in Vilnius […]
A Japanese Chiune Sugihara saved more than 6.000 Jews from the holocaust at the beginning of WWII […]
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 in Vilnius No. 25 […]
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 […]
