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Trakai   Vilnius

Trakai, Vilnius

 13 Reviews  Our half day tour to Trakai Castle was the individual highlight of our 2 days in Vilnius. The fortified castle built on an island by Grand Duke Vietautas during the 15th century and now fully restored... 

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Old town details   Vilnius

Old town details, Vilnius

 15 Reviews  Walking south from the Town Walls and the Bastion we passed through some old streets with old houses really in bad conditions, which need absolutely some restorations, after which they could become... 

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Districts of Vilnius   Vilnius

Districts of Vilnius, Vilnius

 13 Reviews  From the observation deck of Vilnius TV tower I could see never ending districts of grey, huge, Soviet-style apartment buildings. I must admit than they looked quite better from the far distance than... 

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TV tower   Vilnius

TV tower, Vilnius

 10 Reviews  The skyline of Vilnius is dominated by TV Tower located in the suburbs, southwest of the centre/downtown. With the height of 326 m (1071 ft) it was the tallest tower in Lithuania and the second... 

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Zaliasis bridge   Vilnius

Zaliasis bridge, Vilnius

 10 Reviews  Across the river, check out the Stalin-era statues. Legend has it Lithuanians left the statues up as a way to poke fun of the old Soviet regime. The statue photo apparently pays tribute to industry... 

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Churches   Vilnius

Churches, Vilnius

 13 Reviews  Since I talked about this church just here above, let's show it! ;-) It's really not too off the beaten path, since it lies in Lukiškių aikste, a big green square between the Parliament... 

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Statues and fountains   Vilnius

Statues and fountains, Vilnius

 16 Reviews  Great Polish poet and writer Juliusz Slowacki (1809–49) lived, attended primary school and gymnasium in Vilnius. Then he studied... law at Vilnius university. He left Vilnius in 1828. After anti-tzar... 

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Sovietic-era buildings and other relicts   Vilnius

Sovietic-era buildings and other relicts, Vilnius

 11 Reviews  Grutas Park (Gruto Parkas) is a large outdoor park which exhibits all sorts of Soviet relicts, such as sculptures, monuments or vehicles. It was opened in 2001 by a private entrepreneur. The park is... 

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Famous buildings   Vilnius

Famous buildings, Vilnius

 6 Reviews  I took a morning walk from my Crowne Plaza Hotel. Walking eastwards M.K. Ciurlionio gatve (street) I could see this building with two white domes on my picture in a park on the left (north) at... 

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Modern buildings   Vilnius

Modern buildings, Vilnius

 3 Reviews  I had to zoom when I was walking around the observation deck of Vilnius TV tower. And...in the middle of cement desert of Soviet-style identical grey apartments buildings I saw... look at my picture.... 

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Europe park   Vilnius

Europe park, Vilnius

 4 Reviews  Little known fact - The geographical centre of Europe is 15-20 km north of Vilnius. So, no, it's not Germany/Switzerland/Poland as one might have thought. We had hoped to get there, but apparently... 

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Cemeteries   Vilnius

Cemeteries, Vilnius

 3 Reviews  The Bernadine Cemetery (Bernadinu kapines) was founded in 1810 by Bernadine monks on the site of an old cemetery. It was closed in the 1970's and since then remained almost unchanged. It contains... 

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Kernave   Vilnius

Kernave, Vilnius

 2 Reviews   There was a well-known Lithuanian capital in XIII century, but it's only a little city now. Anyway, it's important to know about past of Lithuania. There is a museum of history, old mounts,... 

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Panoramas   Vilnius

Panoramas, Vilnius

 5 Reviews  I always say that the best way to enjoy a town is just going around with no particular goal... in fact here we found this very nice view of the new town, with some older buildings in the front, the... 

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Wooden architecture   Vilnius

Wooden architecture, Vilnius

 2 Reviews  I could see only a few wooden houses in Vilnius but exclusively outside the old town. Well, the compact urban area of the old town was wooden in the old past but was surely damaged by fires. Only... 

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Anyksciai - city of poets

by Raimix

It is not so big town, having just about 11 000 of population, but is called as town of poets and writers, as quite many famous this kind of artists were born, lived or created their masterpieces here – A. Baranauskas, A. Vienuolis, J. Biliunas and others.Place is known from 1440 as a manor of Duke Aleksandras. Anyksciai is located on a hilly not so tipycal in Lithuania place, near river Sventoji. The places of interest here consist of St. Matthew’s church, monuments and former houses of famous writers, Okuleviciute palace, museum of angel. Surroundings here was quite important in medieval times, so around there are lot of mounds, the most famous is Seimyniskeliu.For further information you could visit my page of Anyksciai.

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Uzutrakis - palace and great landscape views

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Uzutrakis is a part of Trakai city, located on the bank of Galve Lake, the same lake where Trakai island castle was built. From 14th century Uzutrakis territory was known and “Island of Duke Algirdas”. From 19th century land was bought by nobleman Juozapas Tiskevicius – the use of land was to build residential palace with the panorama to Galve lake and Trakai castle.Uzutrakis is well known for Tiskeviciai family manor. It is a nice place to run away from city atmosphere; actually it is about 40 kilometers from Vilnius and about 4 kilometers from Trakai.For further information you could visit my page of Uzutrakis.

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Ukmerge - town between Vilnius and Panevezys

by Raimix

Town is located near Sventoji (“Saint”) river. First time place was mentioned in year of 1333. Ukmerge served a function of castle in medieval times. One, wooden, was destroyed in the very end of 14th century.Ukmerge is famous for its small, but nice old town with a few churches. Also there is a mound to climb and see panorama.For further information you could visit my page of Ukmerge.

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Suderve - stone sculptures' park

by Raimix

Suderve is a village with a population of about 400 people. Village meets passenger with a round cupola of Holy Trinity Church, constructed in classicism style.Probably village name arose from a name of nearby small river Sudervele that’s flows to Neris. There is Vilnoja Lake near Suderve. One part of Vilnoja Lake bank at the moment is occupied of becoming famous Vilnoja stone sculptures park.For further information you could visit my page of Suderve.

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Merkine - confluence of Merkys and Nemunas

by Raimix

Merkine was first mentioned in year of 1359 as a castle place. In 15th – 17th centuries it was among the most significant top 10 cities in Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The place was known not only as strong defensive spot, but also as popular town for Grand dukes and kings to stay for hunting around.Nowadays it is silent town with a nice mound, where you could see great panorama. Other nice sights are church, small hill of crosses, so on.For further information you could visit my page of Merkine.

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Rokiskis - great Independence square and manor

by Raimix

Rokiskis is known from the very end of 15th century. The name of town comes from name Rokas, who was a hunter, stayed at a nice place near Laukupis river for a longer time. Passerbies were migrating here as well time by time, so place finnaly it was decided to name the place in behalf of Rokas.Place was not so known until landowners Tyzenhaus moved here in 18 – 19th century and created nice ensemble with classical style square, St. Matthias church and their own manor. Nowadays these places are mostly known in Rokiskis.For further information you could visit my page of Rokiskis.

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Grutas - park of soviet sculptures

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Park is made in 2001 after some protests against it. Grutas park official name is "Museum of Soviet sculptures", but there are not only sculptures, that were put in Lithuania territory before Soviet Union crash, but also small museum of Soviet stuff, Soviet style library and picture gallery, even small ZOO, playground for children, Soviet bar. This park is quite interesting for travelers from Western Europe, but could be nice for locals as well, as it shows what happened not so long ago.For further information you could visit my page of Grutas.

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Kernave - first capital of Lithuania

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In 2004 Kernave was inscribed on UNESCO World Heritage list. This small village, but the first capital of Lithuania in the past, is worth of it. To sum up, this nice place takes to first steps of Lithuanian history and give a view of Lithuanian village. It is such feeling in Kernave that old castles and the first capital of Lithuania gone somewhere and now it is only a small village with some things to see and these things show us the remains of past. It is like Lithuanian "Troy".For further information you could visit my page of Kernave.

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Dukstos - pagan oak tree park

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Dukstos recently started to be famous for its Oak tree park - this park is fully prepared for walking (it is fine for disabled people as well). Park theme is a pagan times, when oak tree forests were like a house for old pagan Gods and people were coming here to greet them and give sacrifices.In Dukstos you could see nice looking neo-gothic style church.For further information you could visit my page of Dukstos.

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Oaks in Dukstos

by zaffaran

Another nice place to visit (maybe on your way to Kernove) . A park of oak forest with wooden paths for visitors. It is said to be a home of many species but detailed information is unfortunately only in Lithuanian.To get there go A2 (Panevezys direction), at Bukiskis turn left into road No 171.Warning!Don't forget to take a mosquito repellent.

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Q:  How would somebody describe a road Trakai – Alytaus – Lazdiai – Augustow (Poland). If do it, than via Dirvoniskes or not? I am... 

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