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The White Bridge and Šnipiškės district in Vilnius in 2023 by Augustas Didžgalvis.jpg 1,800 × 1,195; 1,016 KB Vilnius city municipality building 2019.jpg 2,943 × 3,407; 1.93 MB Vilnius City Municipality building.jpg 2,964 × 3,361; 1.99 MB
Kristina Sabaliauskaitė (born 1974), Lithuanian writer and art historian. Kristina Saltanovič (born 1975), Lithuanian athlete. Lew Sapieha (1557–1633), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth politician and military commander. Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595–1640), Polish poet. [30] Šarūnas Sauka (born 1958), Lithuanian postmodern painter.
Vilnius (/ ˈ v ɪ l n i ə s / ⓘ VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ⓘ) is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the most-populous city in the Baltic states.The city's estimated January 2025 population was 607,404, [7] and the Vilnius urban area (which extends beyond the city limits) has an estimated population of 747,864.
Contemporary Art Centre (CAC, Lithuanian: Šiuolaikinio meno centras) – art institution, established in 1992 by Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. CAC has replaced the Arts Exhibition Palace ( Lithuanian : Dailės parodų rūmai ) and took over its building in Vilnius , 2 Vokiečių street.
Pages in category "People from Vilnius" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. ... Code of Conduct; Developers; Statistics; Cookie statement;
This is a list of public art in Vilnius, Lithuania. 1916, 1989: Three Crosses (Lithuanian: Trys kryžiai) was designed by a Polish-Lithuanian architect and sculptor Antoni Wiwulski in 1916. It was constructed in Kalnai Park on the Hill of Three Crosses, in the place where the three wooden crosses used to stand at least since 1636.
Votive offerings became a tradition. They are usually small silver objects (hearts, crucifixes, figures of praying people, images of cured eyes, legs, arms). [15] Several times (1799, 1808, 1810) some of these objects were taken down and melted into liturgical objects. In 1844 there was a total of 785 offerings. [15]
The conflict over Vilnius Region was settled after World War II when both Poland and Lithuania were in the Eastern Bloc, as Poland was the Soviet satellite state of the Polish People's Republic and Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union as the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic, and Poles were repatriated to Poland. From the late 1940s to ...