Travel spots in Lithuania
Towns and sacred heritage in Lithuania — page 5
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Miestų objektai ir architektūra
Tiltiškės Water Mill is a stone industrial-heritage building erected beside the upper Šventoji in 1936.
Utenio Square is one of the two principal landmarks of old central Utena, evolving from the market-town core into a place for civic ceremony, rest, art, and…
Two very different railway bridges stand side by side over the Venta at Kurmaičiai.
Viekšniai Water Mill is a red-brick technical heritage site built on the Venta in 1897.
Vienybės Square is a central Kaunas public space redesigned in 2020 beside the Vytautas the Great War Museum.
Vilkynė is a seasonal motor ferry across the Nemunas between Vilkija in Kaunas District and Pavilkijys in Šakiai District.
Vilnius Town Hall is the central old-town place of self-government, trade, and representation.
Visaginas is Lithuania's youngest city, built from 1975 as a Soviet atomgrad for workers of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant.
The Visaginas Commemorative City Stone is a large natural boulder on Sedulinos Avenue.
The White Bridge is an approximately 240-metre pedestrian and cycling link across the Neris between Naujamiestis and Šnipiškės.
White Rose Bridge in Alytus is Lithuania's highest pedestrian and bicycle bridge, hanging about 38 m above the Nemunas.
The Winding Bridge over the Apaščia River is an 84 m pedestrian and cycle link at the river mouth in Biržai.
The Yellow Bridge across the Šyša is a 40 m long, 5 m wide riveted metal arch bridge characteristic of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Prussian road…
Žakeliškiai Watermill is the site of a former mill and its dam on the Dubysa, not an operating museum with preserved machinery.
The Žemaitijos Carillon is an automatic instrument of 23 tuned bronze bells mounted in 2017 on the brick façade of Telšiai Culture Centre in Cathedral Square.
Žvėrynas Bridge is a state-protected, three-span steel truss bridge built across the Neris in 1905-1907, linking A.
Miestų objektai ir sakralinis paveldas
The Tiškevičiai Chapel-Mausoleum in Kretinga's Second Old Cemetery is an 1893 Neo-Gothic work by Karl Eduard Strandmann: a single-nave red-brick chapel rises…
The Trakai Karaim Kenesa on Karaimų Street is the first kenesa established in Lithuania, with roots in the fifteenth century, and during the Soviet period it…
Trinapolis Church of the Holy Trinity and the former Trinitarian monastery stand on the bank of the Neris in Verkiai, in northern Vilnius.
Troškūnai Church of the Holy Trinity and the former Bernardine monastery form a late Baroque ensemble in Anykščiai District.
The present appearance of Turgeliai Church combines two principal building phases.
Tverai Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is Lithuania's largest wooden church, built in 1897 in the old Samogitian centre of Tverai.
Tytuvėnai Church and Bernardine Monastery Ensemble is one of Lithuania's most important sacred complexes and a pilgrimage New Jerusalem: church, monastery, Holy…
Ukmergė Church of Sts Peter and Paul continues the story of one of the parishes founded in the Diocese of Vilnius in 1387.
Utena Church of Divine Providence is the city's second Catholic parish church, built in 2004-2005 as an oval red-clinker volume marked by a 44-metre bell tower…
Utena Church of the Ascension of Christ is a red-brick Historicist church built in 1882-1884, with a Greek-cross plan crowned by a large dome and two open…
Užupis Cat is a bronze sculpture by Jonas Gelčys that settled on a Polocko Street fence in 2019 at the initiative of jeweller Viktorija Orkinė.
Užupis Republic is Vilnius' artistic quarter across the Vilnia River, known for its symbolic independence declared in 1997, Constitution wall, Užupis Angel, and…
Vabalninkas Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a masonry sanctuary built in 1814-1817 and consecrated in 1818.
Vanagai Evangelical Lutheran Church is a red-brick Lithuania Minor sanctuary designed in 1907-1909 by the Ragainė master Tamošaitis and protected in the…
Vandžiogala Holy Trinity Church is a wooden folk-architecture church built in 1830 in a multicultural Kaunas district town.
Varniai Cathedral, officially the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, is the former cathedral of the Samogitian Diocese: a Baroque twin-towered church built in…
Veisiejai Church of St George is popularly called the Cathedral of Dzūkija because of its exceptional scale, although it has no cathedral status.
Veliuona Church of the Assumption is a masonry sanctuary built between 1636 and 1644 and the third known Catholic church at this historic site above the…
Videniškiai Monastery in Molėtai District is a rare sacred ensemble at the turn from Renaissance to Baroque, a Giedraitis family foundation and the only centre…
Viešvilė Church of the Transfiguration is an active Roman Catholic parish church at Klaipėdos g.
Vilkaviškis Cathedral is a symbol of loss and rebuilding: the 1884 Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary was damaged in World War II, destroyed by…
Vilkyškiai is a distinctive Lithuania Minor town in Rambynas Regional Park: a radial-plan settlement with an Evangelical Lutheran church, manor estate, memory…
The Vilnius Basilian Monastery and Holy Trinity Church on Aušros Vartų Street is a Greek Catholic ensemble, famous for its impressive late-Baroque gate designed…
The Vilnius Calvary Way of the Cross is a 35-station pilgrimage route laid out in Verkiai in 1664-1669, with masonry and wooden chapels, gates, a bridge over…
Vilnius Cathedral and Bell Tower form the central sacred and state-memory ensemble of the capital: neoclassical facade, crypts, St Casimir's Chapel, separate…
Vilnius Choral Synagogue on Pylimo Street is an eclectic synagogue built in 1903 and decorated with Moorish and Neo-Romanesque motifs.
Vilnius Church of Our Lady of the Sign is a Neo-Byzantine Orthodox church consecrated in 1903 beside the old Žvėrynas Bridge.
Vilnius Church of St Francis of Assisi, usually called the Bernardine Church, is one of Lithuania's largest and most mature Gothic monuments.
The Church of St Peter and St Paul in Antakalnis is one of the strongest Baroque landmarks in Vilnius.
The church on Pylimo Street is the ninth Reformed place of worship built at the community's sixth Vilnius location.
Vilnius Holy Spirit Orthodox Church on Aušros Vartų Street is Lithuania's main Orthodox shrine: a monastery cathedral of Baroque origin, preserving the memory…
Vilnius Missionaries Church, formally the Church of the Ascension of the Lord, is one of the most graceful late Baroque silhouettes in the old town.
The Vilnius Shrine of Divine Mercy on Dominikonų Street is a small active church whose significance extends far beyond its scale.
Vilnius St Casimir's Church on Didžioji Street is one of the first Baroque churches of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, begun by the Jesuits in 1604.
Vilnius St Catherine's Church on Vilniaus Street is part of a sixteenth- to nineteenth-century Benedictine ensemble.
Vilnius St John's Church and Bell Tower form the core of the Vilnius University ensemble: a late Baroque university church, academic ceremonies, a bell tower…
Vilnius St Nicholas Church is the oldest surviving Gothic shrine in Lithuania, first mentioned in 1387.
Vilnius St Teresa's Church stands beside the Gates of Dawn and is considered one of the first and most beautiful Baroque buildings in Lithuania.
The Vilnius University Ensemble links the courtyards, St Johns' Church, bell tower, and architecture of the university founded in 1579 into one of Vilnius Old…
Vincas Kudirka Square is a tree-framed public space on Gediminas Avenue opposite the Government of Lithuania.
Vingriai Springs Square is a 1.5 ha public space between Mindaugo and Pylimo streets, created on the site of the historic Vingriai water source.
Visaginas Orthodox Church of the Nativity of St John the Baptist is an active sanctuary at 73A Sedulinos Avenue, not the Church of St Panteleimon at 4 Taikos…
Vydūnas Square is a public space opened in Klaipėda in 2019 around The Spring composition: a barefoot bronze philosopher rising above water, his shoes left…
The Vytautas Magnus University Medical Faculty Palace at A.
Vytautas the Great Church in Kaunas, often called Vytautinė by locals, is regarded as the oldest church in Kaunas and the only Gothic church of Latin-cross plan…
The Wolf Children Memorial in Šlažai is a roadside place of remembrance created in 2022 for East Prussian children who travelled to Lithuania after the Second…
Žaliakalnis Funicular is a Kaunas technical heritage object operating since 1931, connecting V.
Zarasai Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a white-plastered, twin-towered sanctuary in central Zarasai, on one of the town's higher sites.
Žeimelis Evangelical Lutheran Church is a state-protected single-nave church of fieldstone and brick at 4A Vytauto Didžiojo Street.
Žemaičių Kalvarija Basilica is one of Samogitia's most important pilgrimage centres, joining seventeenth-century Dominican tradition, a venerated image of the…
Žemaičių Naumiestis Church of St Michael the Archangel is a wooden, cross-plan parish church with a small roof turret, five altars, and a pulpit.
Žemaičių Naumiestis Evangelical Lutheran Church is a plastered masonry sanctuary completed in 1842, with a four-column Doric portico and small roof turret…
Žiežmariai Synagogue is one of the few surviving wooden synagogues in Lithuania.
The Žukai Evangelical Lutheran community began holding services in a school in 1869, and an independent parish was established in 1900.