A Virtual Journey Through Historical Vilnius & New Trakai
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 […]
A Japanese Chiune Sugihara saved more than 6.000 Jews from the holocaust at the beginning of WWII […]
The Church of St. Theresa is one of the most excellent examples of early Baroque monuments in Vilnius […]
Inner Courtyard of the Royal Palace (Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania) built in the 16th-century Italian Renaissance style […]
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 […]
Vileišis estate is located at Antakalnio St. 4, across the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Vilnius[…]
Chodkiewicz Palace (Didžioji Str. 4) in Vilnius is formed in the period of Gothic and Renaissance. The present building is late Classical. Today it hosts Vilnius Picture Gallery and Lithuanian Art Museum […]
A passageway in the east leads from the smallest Courtyard of Arcades in the Old Campus of the Vilnius University to Adam Mickiewicz Courtyard […]
The Catholic Vilnius University was established by the Jesuit Order in 1579 […]
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 […]
This is one of the oldest churches in Vilnius. The first church in this spot was built by German merchants in the 14th century […]
