Signature Tour: Northern Town and Verkių Street. Stories of the Battlefield.

The first comprehensive Lithuanian publication about the Vilnius surroundings (1958) describes the journey to Verkiai as follows: “To the left stretch the uninteresting Šnipiškės with old, narrow streets and simple houses in gardens and orchards. To the right is a wide plain, the so-called War Field.” This referred to the territory of Šiaurės miestelis. "Military parades and inspections used to take place in this Field. Here, Russian Tsar Peter I inspected his army. Here, too, Napoleon, in 1812, before his ill-fated campaign to Moscow, observed his diverse, multinational army." During Soviet times, part of this Field became a large, enclosed, secret territory, around which new factory buildings and houses arose. Let's search for the remaining traces of this Field: from the times of Napoleon and the Soviet army. Where were the buried soldiers of Napoleon's army found? What does the Christ statue on Kalvarijų Street signify? Did mammoths walk here? And why not? Signs of the Afghanistan war. The pride of the Soviet micro-district – the banquet hall, what happened there and what is happening there now. Where it's better not to buy apartments and why. The Gates of Evil and two accounting departments. Have you ever wondered why one of the streets in Vilnius's Šiaurės miestelis is now called Lakūnų Street? Start: Fr. Br. Laurinavičius Square (intersection of Žalgirio and Kalvarijų streets). End: PC Banginis. Duration: 1.5 hours. Length: 2 km.

Adresas: Broniaus Laurinavičiaus skveras, Kalvarijų gatvė, Vilnius, Vilniaus m. sav., Lietuva

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