What is and where is Vilnius?
What is Lithuania?
Why have we landed here – in the Central courtyard of Vilnius University?
Vilnius spaces of historical importance and richness
Two enlightening panoramas of Vilnius
The Legend of Vilnius: Gediminas’ dream and the Iron Wolf
Vilnius symbols
Which Vilnius citizen is most famous in the World? Oginski, Dzerzhinsky or Zappa?
15 important events of Vilnius history
Who is the most outstanding person who lived in Vilnius – Čiurlionis, Mickiewicz or Miłosz?
Who is the most outstanding architect of Vilnius – Glaubitz, Guciewicz or Wiwulski?
The most famous Vilnius photographer – Bułhak?
Most legendary Vilnius masterpiece – the Church of St. Anne’s?
100 contemporary creative people of Vilnius. Portrait gallery by photographer Algimantas Aleksandravičius

Most legendary Vilnius masterpiece – the Church of St. Anne’s?

The most famous Gothic masterpieces of the World are the Cathedrals of Rheims, Chartres, Amiens and Paris, which are all in the area where Gothic style originated, first and foremost in France. Napoleon came from the land of these masterpieces and, as the two hundred year old legend tells, on seeing the Church of St. Anne in Vilnius wanted to put it in his palm and carry back to Paris. Interestingly, the Church of St. Anne is the easternmost Gothic jewel, and Gothic style in general didn’t travel further than Vilnius. Baroque style, on the other hand, reached the river Dniepr and eastern edges of the Lithuanian Grand Duchy in the 17th century.
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