You can read in detail about the history, architecture and other attractions of Vilnius in the book "Sightseeing around Vilnius: micro-districts of the city". This is a publication about almost 60 areas of Vilnius. Information is provided about 21 boroughs of Vilnius (Antakalni, Fabijoniškes, Grigiške, Justiniške, Karoliniške, etc.) and smaller areas belonging to them. The texts of this book are mainly summaries of publications prepared using the works of various authors who wrote about Vilnius. They are indicated in the bibliography accompanying each text. The publication is illustrated with today's photos and old iconography, preserved in Lithuanian museums and libraries. The book is intended for schoolchildren and anyone interested in the city.
Vilnius is always different - romantic in the streets of its old town, dreamy in Vilnius In Užupi, reaching cloud in Šnipiškės, windy Fabijoniškės, mysterious Markučiai... Vilnius hides so many secrets and undiscovered places. Let's look around Vilnius together.
Hazelnuts
Walking, and maybe eating nuts Lazdynas you can feel like you are in Finland, Sweden and France. Sound strange? Certainly not, if you know that the architect Vytautas Čekanauskas used the examples of the Finnish new town Tapiola, the Swedish Wellingby and the French city of Toulouse Mirello when creating Lazdynis. But this is only one of the attractions of this microdistrict.
Hazelnuts wooded Vilnius region, the area is covered with pine forests, hazel trees, and other deciduous trees. XNUMXth century At the beginning of the year, there was a village on the southern side of the present-day Lazdynai microdistrict, which got its name (Polish: Leszczynnik, Leszczynka, Leszczyniaki) because of the abundant hazel trees that grew here. However, the nineteenth century is only the beginning of the name of the microdistrict, people lived in these territories much earlier. During archeological excavations, stone age finds were discovered in the vicinity - flint products from the Neolithic period, the remains of a Mesolithic settlement.
Lazdynai acquired its current appearance in the 1963th century. in the sixties. in 1969 a group of architects led by Vytautas Čekanauskas prepared the first (out of four) Lazdynai project, and in 1974 In the spring, residents have already woken up here. in XNUMX The architects of Lazdynia were awarded the highest award of the Soviet era - the state Lenin Prize. This was the first time that this bonus was given for the establishment of a residential area. The ring-plan district consists of four micro-districts with all mandatory attributes: prefabricated multi-story houses, local shopping and household service centers, schools, kindergartens, polyclinic. Hazelnuts prevail apartment buildings residential houses grouped around semi-open courtyards, blocked by terraces. There are a lot of greenery, forests, and footpaths in the area. The street network and the arrangement of buildings are adapted to the hilly terrain. It gives the district its identity.
Modern Lazdynai is no longer suitable for nut-nuts, but it is worth visiting the modern sculptures and the sacred center here. This center, the plan of which was also created by Vytautas Čekanauskas after the declaration of independence, consists of a church, a chapel, a monastery and a parish house. St. In the Roman Catholic Church of John Bosco, up to 900 believers can pray at the same time. And do you know that the museum of the "leading Lithuanian newspaper" - Eugenija Šimkūnaitė - was also established in Lazdynai?
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