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Doctor Tsemakh Shabad
This monument, created by Romualdas Kvintas, is dedicated to Doctor Tsemakh Shabad (1864–1935) who once lived in Vilnius and was called Doctor Aiskauda (Dr. Doolittle). The doctor paid special...
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A2 Highway near Vilnius
This picture was taken near Le Meridien Villon (now Le Meridien Vilnius) hotel close to sunset. The road runs from Vilnius, through Ukmerge (famous for the song about the plumber) heading towards...
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Something for Everyone in Vilnius
This view of Vilnius encapsulates everything about it for me. A mixture of business, history and religion with houses in the foreground surrounded by trees.
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Flag day in Vilnius
This view from the cathedral square in Vilnius shows part of the cathedral on the left and the newly renovated Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania in the centre. The Lithuanian national flag is...
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The First Swallows in Vilnius
The sculpture First Swallows (Pirmosios kregzdes) was designed by the Lithuanian sculptor Juozas Mikenas and erected in 1964. At first I thought it symbolised something new, or a fresh start, but it...
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Gediminas by Night......................
Reblogged from Kindadukish's Blog: I have been visiting Lithuania for the best part of seven years and have taken hundreds (my colleague would argue thousands) of photographs of the White Cathedral...
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The Gate of Dawn
This the the view of the Gate of Dawn (Aušros Vartai) taken from what would originally have been outside the city wall on the Southern side. This is the only remaining gate of the original nine built...
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Mysterious hill of crosses where pilgrims believe Christ can actually perform...
Reblogged from Kindadukish's Blog: The Hill Of Crosses in northern Lithuania has been a site of pilgrimage for hundreds of years. Consisting of a hill bristling with hundreds of thousands of crosses...
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Kenesa in Vilnius
This is a Kenesa or Persian synagogue built in 1922 for the Karaims (or Karaite) who originally came from what was Mesopotamia (now Iraq). Kenesa comes from the Aramaic word for assembly and is the...
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Day of Mourning and Hope in Vilnius
One of the first things I saw on my last visit as I made my way up past the Presidential Palace (Prezidentura) was a military flag party. They were raising and lowering the national flags accompanied...
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The Uzupis Constitution (in about 18 different languages)
Reblogged from Kindadukish's Blog: A few years ago the district of Uzupis, in the city of Vilnius, declared itself to be an independent republic. A President and bishop were appointed, four flags...
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My First Trip to the Hill of Three Crosses in Vilnius
On my first visit in 2005 I was trying to see as much as I could of Vilnius. From the Cathedral Square I’d looked up and seen the three white crosses among the trees and decided I had to go up there. I...
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On the water in Trakai
This is about the first sight you see of the castle in Trakai when you get off the bus. This was 2012 and my third trip there so after nourishing ourselves on a diet of kibinai and beer we hired a boat...
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Baltic Way Memorial Wall in Vilnius
Walk along Konstitucijos pr. from the city centre heading towards the Panorama shopping centre. As you come to the end of the road which you have to cross to get to the shops you see this wonderful...
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Žemaitė
The Lithuanian novelist Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė, 1845-1921, known as Žemaitė was brought up in a Polish-speaking family with aristocratic pretensions and forbidden to speak Lithuanian, at the...
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A trip to the castle in Vilnius
Last time I went looking for a castle (in Germany) I ended up at the zoo. But that’s a different story In Vilnius you can’t really miss the castle, whether you are up Piles g, (Castle street) in the...
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Vilnius castle (Gediminas Tower) seen from the University bell-tower
This is the view of the castle (through a telephoto lens) from the Vilnius University bell-tower which is part of the church of St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist (Šv. Jonų bažnyčia). You...
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All change (again) at Gedimino 9
The signs were there: they said change was already happening at Gedimino 9, Vilnius’s flagship shopping centre on Gedimino pr.. It’s been needed for a while. When the store opened with a great fanfare...
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St George and the Dragon in Vilnius?
Walking along Gedimino pr. I looked up (always a good thing when you’re out taking photographs) and there was a statue of our Patron Saint St George slaying the dragon. It’s on the roof of Gedimino 20...
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Let there be light!
This statue of Elektra is at the top of what is now the Energy & Technology Museum at the corner of Rinktinės g. and Žvejų g. as you cross over the Mindaugas Bridge. She stands holding an electric...
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