[LT] Photos of Lithuania

[leszekbombka]

More pics of Kresy Wschodnie, please!

[Yellow Fever]

Enough of all these political arguements. This is strickly a photo thread of Lithuania, no more and no less. From now on, anyone starts posting anything but photos will get infraction or even suspended.

[Depeched]

Thank you,

Flag of Grand Duchy of Lithuania

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Vilnius TV-tower (326,5 m)

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[greal.432]

So amazing... Glad to visit your Thread...

[kapturek]

Port in Klaipėda


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[Depeched]

Strange baroque architecture - Južintai church

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All rights reserved by Vygintas R.

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All rights reserved by Vygintas R.

By the way, please some one erase these chauvinistic tags

[vilniusguide]

Vilnius district. Here, around Vilnius, Lithuanian state began to develop. These lands belonged to the ancient Baltic tribal land of Lithuania.
This district was a domain land of the Supreme Duke of Lithuania and an ancient Duchy of Lithuania - the craddle of the Grand Duchy, was formed from these lands.

Nowadays, many new settlements are being built here because of the suburbanization of the capital city of Lithuania. All the settlements, that will be shown, were just a meadow 10 years ago, but today have 1000 - 3500 inhabitants each.

My photos.

New Užubaliai village.


New town of Klevinė.








New town of Bendoriai.







New town of Bendorėliai.

[vilniusguide]

From in and around Mažoji Riešė village.


These villages are famous for their horses, equestrianism.




A huge hill on the other side of the road. I believe it is used as a hippodrome.


Somewhere not far from there, Grand Duke Algirdas was buried, dude, who ruled almost 1 000 000 km² of land.


Hills, hills, hills before the deep valley of a small river.


Old houses.






Riešė river valley.


New houses grow from the meadow.

[vilniusguide]

Vakarų Slėnis village in Maišiagala elderate.








Gudeliai village.




Let's go to Didžioji Riešė town (turn to the right). It has grown from 50 to 3500 people in 20 years!


Near the Mažoji Riešė town.


Landscape.


These places is heaven for horse lovers. Typical view.




Officials say, they will reconstruct the road next year.


As the traffic is very intensive and the road quality becaming worse and worse because of that.


First houses of Riešė village. Riešė is an old town, but it was very small, vegetating village before the Independence, when, during the last 15 years, hundreds of new buildings were built and the population rose from 287 in 1987 to 1296 in 2010.












Lithuanian religion is basketball.


Horses!






The end of the village.


Views of the Riešė river valley near Didžioji Riešė town.







This bus stop in the middle of nowhere reminded me some mystic film episode.

It could be episode from Interstate 60: Episodes of the Road, for example.

[Depeched]

Very nice

[vilniusguide]

Some photos from Dieveniškės historical regional park, that was created to preserve ancient Lithuanian way of life, mounds of Lithuanian ancient settlements, architecture, the lands, from where ethnic Lithuanian Duchy of Lithuania began to form and an ancient local dialect of Dieveniškės (Lith. Dieveniškių šnekta), that belongs to the Aukshtainian dialect of Lithuanian language, its sub-dialect of Vilnian speak. This dialect belong to the offshoot of Lithuanian language, what was spoken by Gediminas, Algirdas, Vytautas and others, it preserves many ancient forms, that already vanished from the contemporary Lithuanian language and is very interesting for the linguists and scholars.
First Lithuanian know written texts from 1501-1503 were in Vilnian sub-dialect of Aukshtaitian Lithuanian.
By the way, first Lithuanian books, printed in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, that were released in Vilnius by Daukša, were also in this sub-dialect of Aukshtaitian - Vilnian. Stanislovas Rapalionis, born near Eišiškės, released the first Lithuanian book in this dialect (it is known because of his other works) even before Mažvydas, but it did not survived to our days. The dude, together with others, also established Lithuanian language school in Vilnius in 1539.

Poškonys village, the central village of the Regional Park. Here, not only ancient Lithuanian dialect is being heard, Lithuanian architecture is seen, but the whole structure of the village remains from the medieval times (700 years). The houses are built on the long (may be hundred of meters), but narrow land plots (only some meters) along the road. 24 Baltic mounds, more than 1500 years old, are near the village.

http://www.kelioneslietuvoje.com/is-triju-pusiu-apsuptas-baltarusijos-kas/


http://www.kelioneslietuvoje.com/is-triju-pusiu-apsuptas-baltarusijos-kas/
24 Baltic mounds, more than 1500 years old, are near the village.

Stakai village. These oak trees have seen not only Lithuanian Dukes, but also were worshiped by Pagan Lithuanians before the Baptism in 1387.

http://www.kelioneslietuvoje.com/is-triju-pusiu-apsuptas-baltarusijos-kas/

Sacred stones near the village.

http://www.kelioneslietuvoje.com/is-triju-pusiu-apsuptas-baltarusijos-kas/

Burial places of ancient Lithuanians.

http://www.kelioneslietuvoje.com/is-triju-pusiu-apsuptas-baltarusijos-kas/

Grybiškės oak tree. Have he seen Gediminas or maybe Vytautas, when Lithuania was the largest state in Europe?

http://www.kelioneslietuvoje.com/is-triju-pusiu-apsuptas-baltarusijos-kas/

Jankelis and Jankeliukas stones. Yes, indeed, these stones do have their names.

http://www.kelioneslietuvoje.com/is-triju-pusiu-apsuptas-baltarusijos-kas/

Rimašiai ethnographic village of Aukštaitians of Vilnius region.

http://www.kelioneslietuvoje.com/is-triju-pusiu-apsuptas-baltarusijos-kas/

Lithuanian Žižmai village with traditional architecture. The southernmost village of Lithuanian people on the territory of Lithuania (there are some more on the teritory of Belarus like Pelesa).

wiki


http://www.panoramio.com/photo/46696960


http://www.panoramio.com/photo/46696995

Dieveniškės town. The name of the town means "God's Place" in Lithuanian. The town as well as much larger territories not only on contemporary Lithuanian side, but also much further to the South, belonged to the most prominent Lithuanian noble family in the 15th-16th centuries - Goštautai. The best known among them is Albertas Goštautas, buried in the Cathedral of Vilnius. His Rennaisance tomb is among the earliest in Lithuania and the best examples of Rennaisance tombs in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

In this church, wife of Goštautas, Barbora Radvilaitė, was praying.

http://www.kelioneslietuvoje.com/is-triju-pusiu-apsuptas-baltarusijos-kas/

Notice Lithuanian cross.


http://www.travel.lt/turizmas/select...nlanguage=en#3

Cross-making, a unique branch of Lithuanian folk art, was inscribed on the UNESCO Non-material and Verbal Heritage Masterpiece List in 2001.

wiki

Gauja river (from Lithuanian - Gang, band ) flows nearby.

http://www.kelioneslietuvoje.com/is-triju-pusiu-apsuptas-baltarusijos-kas/


http://www.kelioneslietuvoje.com/is-triju-pusiu-apsuptas-baltarusijos-kas/

[Depeched]

Capital of Lithuania views

Photos by Lettered
http://www.miestai.net/forumas/showt...t=2207&page=27

Vilnius cathedral square



From President's yard, view to Holy Spirt church



Vilnius University









Vingis park



Upper and Lower castle





St. Anna church



New..



Embassy of Belarus



Tuskulenai manor

[Depeched]

Other Vilnius pics by Lettered
http://www.miestai.net/forumas/showt...t=2207&page=29

Upper and Lower castles (remains)


New




Monument for one of famous classicism architect - Laurynas Stuoka Gucevičius





Gediminas Avenue and cathedral


Neris river


Panorama


City hall square


Vilnele river


Panorama


St. Paul and St. Peter church


St. Anna and Bernardinai church


Vilnius..

[Depeched]

Trakai gothic/baroque church















Interior

[Depeched]

Šilutė

Centre of Šilutė. Push on picture and You will see panorama view of this place


panoramas.lt

[Depeched]

Perkūnas house in Kaunas. XV c.

Push on picture and you will see panorama view of this place


panoramas.lt

[The-E-Vid]

Lovely Pics thanks for sharing!

[Linguine]

great thread, beautiful photos and nice read....

[Varsben]

Interesting pics of Lithuania, looking forward to seeing more.

Now for the sake of a more complete historical description of the images published in this thread, some complementary information for forumers who don't know much about the history of Lithuania.

Originally Posted by vilniusguide

In this church, wife of Goštautas, Barbora Radvilaitė, was praying.

It may come as a surprise to some, that after the death of her first husband mentioned above, the lady married the Polish King Sigismund II Augustus, thus becoming the Queen of Poland (where to this day she is known as Barbara Radziwiłłówna and remains a very popular historical figure, depicted in literature and arts). Sadly, shortly afterwards she died in Kraków (Krokuva).

Originally Posted by depeched

Monument for one of famous classicism architect - Laurynas Stuoka Gucevičius

Wawrzyniec Gucewicz (he never used the name "Stuoka" himself) was a great Polish-Lithuanian architect, who in his last will dedicated all his works to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (for which he also fought against the Russians). Thus, his legacy belongs to both Lithuania and Poland.

[Depeched]

Originally Posted by Varsben

Sadly, shortly afterwards she died in Kraków (Krokuva)

And what is more, she was buried in Vilnius cathedral.