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Towns and sacred heritage in Lithuania
Old-town squares, street perspectives, Gothic and Baroque churches, monasteries, and wooden village shrines.
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The “Erasmus+” Wall “It Is Never Late____” is an Artur Širin-Ettoja and Ettoja composition on V. Šopeno Street: an old sage-like face, a youthful body, a train…
The “Walking with a Fish” Sculpture is a public composition installed on Melnragė’s north pier on 18 August 2018.
Abakai Lourdes is not a single grotto but a sacred ensemble arranged at several levels of a wooded Minija valley slope.
Adutiškis Church of Our Lady of the Scapular is an active red-brick Catholic parish church in Adutiškis, near the Belarusian border.
Agailiai Forest Chapel stands in a secluded clearing surrounded by an old burial ground, crosses, and a well.
Against the Wind is Klaudijus Pūdymas's bronze image of Jean-Paul Sartre on Parnidis Dune, created after a 1965 photograph by Antanas Sutkus.
Akmenė Church of St Anne is the town's defining landmark, built through parish donations and labour between 1907 and 1912.
Akmuo Church of the Crucified Jesus is a rare pairing of a modest eighteenth-century Dzūkija sanctuary and an exceptionally slender open bell tower.
Aleksotas Church of St Casimir at 35 Antakalnio Street is an active parish setting where two distinct buildings stand side by side.
Alizava Church of St John the Baptist is a historic wooden sanctuary built in the middle of the nineteenth century beside the Vabalninkas-Pandėlys road, on the…
All Saints Church was built in 1620-1631 beside the former Rūdninkai Gate, then on Vilnius's edge.
Alytus Old Town Square is a compact public space between Bažnyčios Street and Alyvų Takas.
Angel Hill in Trakai is an open-air place of wooden angels, wayside shrines, and prayer signs in Būdos village, created in 2009 to mark the millennium of…
The Discalced Carmelite monastery of Antalieptė with the Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross is a late Baroque ensemble by the Šventoji River in Zarasai…
Antalieptė Water Mill is a stone channel-type mill built in 1855 in Antalieptė beside the Šventoji.
Antazavė Church of Divine Providence is a twin-towered timber basilica built in 1794, accompanied by an 1827 gate and belfry.
Anykščiai Church of St. Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist is Lithuania's tallest twin-towered Neo-Gothic church, with towers reaching 79 m. Built in 1899-1909,…
The Arch is a monument by Arūnas Sakalauskas unveiled in Danė Square in 2003.
Astravas Manor Estate Bridge-Dam is an arched bridge built in 1860 across the Apaščia watercourse in Biržai.
The Ateitininkai Union Palace at Laisvės al. 13 is one of the most interesting transition buildings in interwar Kaunas architecture.
Aukštadvaris Church of the Transfiguration of Christ is a white wooden church built in 1913, with two pointed towers, three naves, and four altars.
Aukštoji Panemunė Church of the Holy Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a towerless Neo-Renaissance sanctuary built in 1859-1860 and enlarged in 1882.
Babriškės Church of Saint Michael the Archangel is a compact fieldstone sanctuary on the right bank of the Varėnė.
Babrungėnai Watermill on the Babrungas River is the only watermill in Žemaitija National Park.
Baisogala Church of the Holy Trinity is a white masonry sanctuary completed in 1882 in the centre of Baisogala, near the Kiršinas.
Baltic World Tree is a 2005 sculpture-fountain by Henrikas Orakauskas in Kupiškis.
The Bank of Lithuania Palace in Kaunas is a central-bank palace designed by Mykolas Songaila and built in 1925-1928, as the temporary capital consolidated the…
The Bartninkai Church Ruins in Suvalkija are the conserved remains of the 1790 masonry church where Jonas Basanavičius was baptized.
Vytautas the Great founded the Basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Trakai in 1409.
The Bastion of the Vilnius Defensive Wall is a first-half-of-the-seventeenth-century fortification on Bokšto Hill: a cannon tower, horseshoe-shaped artillery…
The Bear Sculptures are Simonas Grigutis' small public artworks distributed across footbridges on the Lake Mastis waterfront.
Bernardine Garden is a historic Vilnius Old Town park in a bend of the Vilnelė, linking the layers of Bernardine monastery gardens, the Vilnius University…
Beržoras Church of St Stanislaus the Bishop is an eighteenth-century wooden sacred-heritage site beside Lake Beržoras.
Betygala Church of St Nicholas is a three-aisled Neo-Baroque church built in 1925-1930, with a separate bell tower linked by a gallery.
The green timber Birštonas Kurhaus continues a resort-hall tradition documented from 1855, but today's building is not the unchanged first hall.
Birutės Vila is a free indoor pavilion opened in Vytautas Park in 2015, where mineral water circulates through a shallow basin, fountain jets, and an…
Biržai Castle Bridge is a reconstructed timber approach across the bastion fortress's defensive moat to Biržai Castle's gateway.
Count Jonas Tiškevičius built Biržai Church of St John the Baptist in 1857-1861 to a design by Laurynas Cezaris Anikinis.
Biržai Evangelical Reformed Church is a red-brick Neo-Gothic church built in 1867-1874 to a design by Riga architect Heinrich Schell.
Biržai Independence Square is a public memory space beside the Church of St John the Baptist.
Visitors use Biržai Narrow-Gauge Railway Complex for the surviving station yard with a timber station built in 1922, two goods warehouses, a baggage building,…
The Biržai Pedestrian Bridge over Lake Širvėna is Lithuania's longest pedestrian bridge, 525 m long, linking Biržai town with Astravas Manor.
The Black Ghost is a bronze sculpture placed in Klaipėda Old Town in 2010, beside the castle moat and swing bridge.
Būtingė Evangelical Lutheran Church is a neo-Classical masonry sanctuary built in 1822-1824 and consecrated in December 1824 - the fifth successive church of…
Butrimonių Church of St Michael the Archangel stands at 11 Bažnyčios St. in Butrimonys, Šalčininkai District.
Butrimonys Vortex Fountain is not a conventional open basin with upward jets.
The Guroniai complex known as Cardinal Vincentas Sladkevičius's homestead is a memorial and pilgrimage ensemble created after his death, not his surviving birth…
The Cat Courtyard is a small public space at P. Butlerienės g. 4A in Marijampolė, where sculptor Kęstutis Balčiūnas placed metal cats on a low sculptural wall…
The Cat with a Gentleman's Face is a public artwork by Regimantas Midvikis at the junction of Kalvių and Pasiuntinių streets in Klaipėda Old Town.
The Cathedral of the Dormition is one of Vilnius's oldest Orthodox sanctuaries.
The Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts Palace on K. Donelaičio Street is an interwar Lithuanian business-institution building designed by Vytautas…
Chestnut Avenue is a pedestrian link between Aušros Avenue and Vilniaus Street with more than a century of history.
Christ the King Church in Klaipėda is a modest late-nineteenth-century sanctuary beside former Ferdinand Square.
Christ's Resurrection Basilica in Žaliakalnis is a symbol of Kaunas Modernism and statehood: an interwar independence monument idea, Soviet interruption, white…
The parish of Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis was established in 1988 for Vilnius's growing western districts.
The Church of Divine Providence is a small Neo-Gothic sanctuary designed by Antanas Vivulskis and consecrated in 1913 for an orphanage on Gerosios Vilties…
This Klaipėda Orthodox church began on 4 January 1995, when its first liturgy was celebrated in a classroom in the eastern wing of Secondary School No. 17.
The Church of Jesus the Redeemer in Antakalnis is a centrally planned Baroque sanctuary built in 1694-1717 on Kazimierz Jan Sapieha's suburban estate at the…
The Church of Our Lady of Mercy of the Gate of Dawn in Bezdonys is a modest yellow-timber parish church built in 1937 at 38A Geležinkelio Street.
The Church of Our Lady of the Scapular is both a red-brick landmark of Druskininkai and a document of an unfinished architectural idea.
From a distance, the Church of Our Lady of the Snows in Girdiškė appears to be an unexpectedly large red-brick example of rural Neo-Gothic architecture.
The Church of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary is a red-brick Gothic Revival sanctuary built in 1909-1910 on a rise beside Lake Vepriai.
The Church of Saints Constantine and Michael was built in 1911-1913 as an Orthodox memorial that linked the memory of Prince Konstanty Ostrogski with the…
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Plateliai was built from hewn logs in 1744 and ranks among Lithuania's oldest surviving timber churches.
The Church of Saints Philip and James is the Dominican church of Lukiškės.
The Church of St Anne in Alvitas is a modern sanctuary consecrated in 2020, with a dramatically curved russet exterior, a narrow glazed front, and a 28-metre…
The Church of St Anthony of Padua in central Birštonas was built in 1900-1909 to a design by Wacław Michniewicz.
Šilalė's Church of St Francis of Assisi is a red-brick Gothic Revival sanctuary built in 1905-1909, its tall tower defining the town skyline.
The Church of St Ignatius began within a seventeenth-century Jesuit novitiate.
The Church of St James the Apostle commands the skyline of the small Aukštaitian town of Alanta.
The Church of St James the Apostle forms part of Jonava's oldest surviving masonry ensemble on the right bank of the Neris.
The Church of St John the Baptist in Plungė is a 67-metre-long red-brick Neo-Romanesque landmark whose two sharp spires close the vista along Vytauto Street.
The Church of St John the Baptist in Viekšniai is a tall white landmark on the right bank of the River Venta.
The Church of St Mark the Evangelist in Šateikiai is one of Lithuania's earliest Historicist churches to use Gothic forms consistently.
The Church of St Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist is one of Lithuania's most coherent Neo-Gothic ensembles.
The Church of St Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist in Veiviržėnai is a wooden Samogitian church built in 1767-1769, state-protected as part of a building…
The Church of St Michael the Archangel and St John the Baptist is one of the most commanding Baroque landmarks in a small Lithuanian town.
The Church of St Michael the Archangel in Ariogala was built in 1926-1939 on the site of a wooden church destroyed by fire in 1915, following a design by Swiss…
The Church of St Michael the Archangel in Mosėdis is more than the town's white twin-towered landmark: it forms a protected ensemble.
The Church of St Michael the Archangel in Rietavas, locally known as the White Swan, is one of Žemaitija's most expressive early Historicist churches.
The Church of St Michael the Archangel in Žiobiškis is a Neo-Gothic sanctuary built from 1902 to 1911 in Rokiškis District.
The Church of St Paul the Apostle is a modern Catholic church at 1 Santarvės Street in Visaginas, designed by the brothers Ramūnas and Jaunius Beinortas.
The Jesuits began building St Raphael the Archangel Church in 1703 in the historic suburb of Šnipiškės.
The Church of the Annunciation in Lentvaris is a rare Lithuanian example of Italian-inspired Romanesque Revival architecture.
The Church of the Assumption in Kartena is a three-nave timber Neo-Baroque basilica built after the town fire of 1873, distinguished by a broad curving facade…
The Church of the Assumption in Telšiai, affectionately known as the Minor Church, compresses an unusually layered history into one site on Vilnius Hill.
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the principal landmark of central Joniškis and a living parish church shaped by several centuries of…
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Leipalingis is distinguished not by tall towers but by the broad proportions of late Classicism.
The Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross in Laukuva is a twin-tower church in Romantic forms built in 1852-1856 on a small rise in the town's historic…
The Church of the Guardian Angels is a wooden sanctuary built in 1830, later enlarged into a Latin-cross plan.
The Church of the Holy Trinity in Sudervė is one of Lithuania's rare circular-plan Neoclassical churches.
The Church of the Immaculate Conception in Alsėdžiai is a timber Samogitian sanctuary built in 1793 and commanding the town's radial plan from Alka Hill.
The Church of the Immaculate Conception in Kvėdarna is distinguished by massive fieldstone-and-brick walls nearly a metre thick, a broad façade, rose window,…
The Church of the Lithuanian Martyrs in Berčiūnai is not one building but a memorial route between two sites.
The Church of the Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the centrepiece of a state-protected heritage complex of regional significance in Kalvarija.
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Žeimiai is one of Vaclovas Michnevičius's strongest Gothic Revival churches.
The Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God was built in 1862-1863 from a standard design adapted by engineer A. Polozov.
The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Kužiai is a modest wooden sanctuary installed in a house in 1946 after the reinforced-concrete church built in…
The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Gadūnavas is a distinctive example of Lithuanian brick Gothic Revival completed in 1901.
The Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a broad, twin-towered fieldstone landmark at the upper end of Valkininkai's historic radial square.