Vievis Travel Guide

In 1980, when this place was established, it was just local museum, later exhibition of one Vilnius museum and some others were moved here and in year 2000 it became Lithuanian geology museum.

Talking about what is outside of museum, you can visit it for free - different stones from different geological eras. If you want to go inside, it is a need for excursion and it may cost a bit. The museum has lot of examples of stones and cores from around the World - even from Burma, Sri Lanka, Brasilia and so on.

This is the monument is Vievis park near Catholic church - it is for the first Slavic religious grammar book, published in Vievis in beginning of XVII century. As far as I know, it is only one monument in Vievis city.

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Vievis St Ann church was built in 1908-1931. It has an neo-Gothic style, interior is more or less baroque. I really like and got used to this church and the interior of it, as I was The place around this church is christened here, I got here the first Communion and attended lot of masses.

The place around this church is "called" Vievis centre, with church yard, park, wooden houses around and market and small shops nearby.

This place was found in about 1600, when here was built Saint Spirit monastery and the publishing house near the monastery, where first religious Slavic language grammar book was published in 1619, so this place was very significant for Slavic (Russians, Bellorussians, Ukrainians) people, living in Poland-Lithuania common kingdom that time.

Why it is called "mystic" yard? At first, when the monastery was demolished ( I guess by Napoleon army as well), the preschool was built here (in soviet times). So, after some years it was found that ghosts are living in that place and scary people. Locals were thinking it was ghosts of these people, who were killed at Napoleon war, first or second world wars. The children moved to other place and that preschool building was demolished. Now this yard consist of Orthodox church, house of Orthodox priest and the wooden, nice decorated well.

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The first orthodox church in Vievis, in the same place as it is now, was built in 1600 by landowner Oginski. As it was wooden, in the time when Napoleon's army came to Lithuania and Vievis (1812), it was burned. Later, in 1837 the new one brick church was built, it survived till these days.

The church really looks tipical orthodox style, recently it was renovated, Russian people come to this church mass not only from Vievis, but from Elektrenai and other places as well, because they don't have Orthodox churches.