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New Trakai – Guided Sightseeing Tours

New Trakai – Guided Sightseeing Tours

By Vladislav B. Sotirovic on 2020-01-01

All guided sightseeing tours in New Trakai by Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic [...]

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Residential Palace at Trakai Island Castle

Residential Palace at Trakai Island Castle

By Vladislav B. Sotirovic on 2019-10-13

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 [...]

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Bailey of Trakai Island Castle

Bailey of Trakai Island Castle

By Vladislav B. Sotirovic on 2019-10-10

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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New Trakai – The City Established on Islands

New Trakai – The City Established on Islands

By Vladislav B. Sotirovic on 2019-09-27

New Trakai was the residence of Lithuanian Grand Dukes. In 1341-1342 Lithuanian Grand Duke Kestutis moved the residence from Old to New Trakai. Old Trakai, therefore, lost its defensive importance [...]

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Karaites of New Trakai

Karaites of New Trakai

By Vladislav B. Sotirovic on 2019-09-27

Upon returning from battle in the Crimea, Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas settled the Karaites, both soldiers, and civilians (a total of 383 families) in a free area of the town of New Trakai between the two castles (the Peninsula Castle and the Island Castle) in 1398 [...]

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All guided sightseeing tours in New Trakai by Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirovic [...]

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House-Monument with Gothic Façade

House-Monument with Gothic Façade

By Vladislav B. Sotirovic on 2020-03-29

Around Rūdninkų Square in the Old Town of Vilnius, there are several houses-monuments like in Karmelitų St. with renovated Gothic details on the exterior and the 17th-century decorative roof beams in the interior [...]

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The Renaissance Palace Garden in Vilnius

The Renaissance Palace Garden in Vilnius

By Vladislav B. Sotirovic on 2020-03-22

The Renaissance garden of the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in Vilnius was established by the Lithuanian Grand Duchess of the Italian origin Bona Sforza (1494-1557) in the first half of the 16th century [...]

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The Old Arsenal in Vilnius

The Old Arsenal in Vilnius

By Vladislav B. Sotirovic on 2020-03-13

The Old Arsenal, today the Museum of Applied Art, is a massive two-story building that was build-up by the Polish King and the Grand Duke of Lithuania in the early 16th century over part of the old city wall at the east of the complex of the Upper and Lower Castles, furthest from the grand-ducal palace, thus minimizing the risk from any fire in it [...]

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The Museum of Archaeology of Lithuania

The Museum of Archaeology of Lithuania

By Vladislav B. Sotirovic on 2020-03-02

The museum is located in the building of the Old Arsenal in Vilnius [...]

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Chapel of St. Casimir (interior)

Chapel of St. Casimir (interior)

By Vladislav B. Sotirovic on 2020-02-18

St. Casimir's Chapel is located on the south-east corner of the Vilnius Cathedral. It is the largest of the chapels and was the largest single element of the former cathedral's building to be incorporated intact into the new one by Lithuanian architect Laurinas Stuoka-Gucevičius at the turn of the 19th century [...]

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