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 […]
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Residential Palace at Trakai Island Castle
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 […]
Simonas Daukantas Courtyard at Vilnius University Old Campus
The courtyard is named after the author of the first history books of Lithuania written in the Lithuanian language […]
Tyzenhauzų Str. building in Vilnius
The historical building in Tyzenhauzų Str. in Vilnius […]
The Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
The first brick constructions of the palace are from the turn of the 14th century […]
Island Castle of Trakai
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 […]
Vilnius University Est. 1579
The Catholic Vilnius University was established by the Jesuit Order in 1579 […]
Monument to Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
The monument is a work of sculptor V. Kašuba in 1996 […]
Church of St. Anne
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 […]
Lithuania – Geographical Center of Europe
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 […]
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 […]