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Monument to the Millennium of Lithuania and the 20th Anniversary of the Baltic Way (White Angel). Pravieniškės "Guardian Angel" 2009. Authors: Rūta Blaževičiūtė, Audronė Skarbaliūtė-Glinskienė and Deimantė Kuconytė.

St. Michael the Archangel's Church or the Garrison Church is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Kaunas, Lithuania, closing the perspective of the Laisvės alėja, the main pedestrian street. It was built between 1891 and 1895 when Kaunas was part of the Russian Empire, in Neo-Byzantine style largely for the use of the Russian Orthodox garrison of Kaunas Fortress. The construction of "military" or "garrison" Orthodox churches by the Russian government in former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth lands had started after the suppression of the November Uprising of 1830-31, and peaked during the reign of emperor Alexander III of Russia. Initially the site of this church had been intended to be used for a Catholic church, but these plans had been abandoned after the Uprising. The church was designed as an Orthodox cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in 1890 by K. H. Lymarenko; it was authorized for construction on November 10 that year.

This sacred building was built between 1891 and 1895 as an Orthodox military cathedral. The reinforced concrete dome is the largest dome in Lithuania with a diameter of 16.3 meters. It reaches its maximum height of 50 meters. Above the altar there are paintings of two archangels or evangelists. The altar itself is made of glass and depicts God at the gates of heaven in a stained glass window. The interior was decorated with 122 Greek icons until 1985. There are a total of 12 bells in the four side domes. The church is designed to accommodate around 2,000 visitors. In total there are 266 large and small columns and pilasters in the church. (Source: Wikipedia)

The pine of the Rumšiški Forest is the thickest pine in Lithuania. Its trunk reaches 4 meters at the bottom. Unlike most trees, pine trees do not thin out, but get thicker as they grow upwards. At a height of 2 meters, the thickness of the trunk is even 5 meters. The downward thinning of the trunk is typical of felled trees. In the pine of Rumšiškii, the scars made by the convicts are still visible - a wound of a meter-long cut. Before the war, you say it was used for the turpentine and rosin industry. A variety of products were made from sap: shoe polish, floor wax, even hand and face creams. Folklore also says that the pine tree was milked by witches, who collected its sap as a delicacy for feasts. The tall, 32-meter-high trunk of the tree was exhausted not only by the sap pickers, but also by the flames of the fires. With repeated forest floor fires, the pine bark has thinned from the heat at the base. There are still traces of carbon in it. The high branches were not touched by the fire. Several of them are now secured with ropes. Physical data of the tree: Trunk circumference at a height of 1.3 m - 4 m Height - 32 m Age - about 400 years

Kaunas Lagoon

Very nice church - currently under renovation.

only sand, hardly to drive

Very nice old church.