Vilnius Date(s): November 10-11, 2012. Album by David Clement. 1 - 29 of 29 Total. 56 Visits.
1 Hotel Conti
2 Gate of Dawn - built between 1503 and 1522 as a part of defensive fortifications for the city; it's the last remaining city gate
3 this was about noon on a Sunday - there's a chapel inside the Gate
4 Three Crosses on Bleak Hill, viewed from Boksto street
5 old Artillery Bastion
6 Angel of Uzupis Statue
7 Bernardine Church
8 St. Anne's Church
9 Napoleon, after seeing St. Anne's during the Franco-Russian War in 1812, expressed a wish to carry the church home with him to Paris 'in the palm of his hand'
10 Three Crosses
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13 view of Cathedral and Gediminas' Tower from Bleak Hill
14 Gediminas' Tower, the only remaining part of the Upper Castle
15 the modern part of the city north of the Neris River
16 inside Gediminas' Tower - map of Baltic Way human chain of 1989 to protest Soviet rule
17 view of the Old Town from the top of the tower
18 Vilnius Cathedral, where coronations of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania took place
19 Cathedral Square
20 Literatu street
21 Presidential Palace, dates back to the 14th century
22 Church of St. Catherine
23 the former KGB headquarters - the names are of people believed to have been executed inside the building
24 Seimas Palace - the Lithuanian parliament
25 back in Cathedral Square - 'stebuklas' means miracle in Lithuanian; this is where the 1989 Baltic Chain is said to have started
26 dusk at the Gate of Dawn
27 three course meal with 1L of beer for 38 Litas (<£9)
