Virtual Journey & Walking Guided Tours Through Historical Vilnius & Trakai By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic
Church of St. Catherine in Vilnius is built in typical Vilnius Baroque style. It is a Late Baroque church once accompanied with Benedictine Monastery. It was built by the Benedictine Sisters near their convent. It acquired its present-day appearance after a great fire in Vilnius in 1737. The church has a rich interior decorated with stucco mouldings and artificial marble […]
The present Baroque Church of St. Peter and St. Paul was built by Michael Casimir Pac (1624-1682), Grand Hetman and Vilnius Voivode of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, to mark the liberation of Vilnius from Moscow (The 1655-1661 War) and his own escape from the hands of rebellious soldiers […]
The Catholic Vilnius University was established by the Jesuit Order in 1579 when on April 1st, the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Stephen Bathory issues a royal charter recognizing the Jesuit College into a university. The Old Campus of the university has 13 courtyards […]
The monument is a work of sculptor V. Kašuba in 1996. It is located in front of the Royal Palace and Cathedral Basilica in the very downtown of Vilnius. Gediminas was a Grand Duke of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1316 to 1341. He is the founder of the Gediminian-Jagelonian ruling dynasty of Lithuania and later of Poland as well (till 1572) […]
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 […]
This is by-street in Vilnius branches off from Pilies St. and goes in a broken line towards the Church of St. Archangel Michael […]
The Church of St. Anne in Vilnius is probably the most famous building in the city. It is a masterpiece of flamboyant Gothic, nearly unsurpassed in the world. The church is a unique monument of red firebrick Gothic architecture in Lithuania. 35 different kinds of brick were used help in creating the church. The Church of St. Anne is symmetrical, marked by graceful, pointed forms that continue upward […]
