Try to go to the "Gediminas Castle". The view is amazing. You can see the whole city from there. Three Crosses Hill is a memorable place because seven Franciscan monks were tortured here by the pagans. When the Grand Duke Algirdas was absent, pagans tied them to the crosses and threw them down the hill to the river with the words: ‘Swim with the idol you order us to worship’. Since then the mount was given the name of the Three Crosses as three crosses were erected there to commemorate that event and they still are some kind of a symbol of Vilnius.

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posted @ 8/29/2006 9:19:00 AM