Gediminas Castle Album
The Gediminas Castle was first built as wood and then in 1409 a stone wall and brick
buildings were used in reconstruction.  The site is built on a hill in a nearly
non-existant hill country.  The castle was the start of the Baltic Human Chain of 1989.
Old Town  Vilnius.
The Three Crosses Monument
was destroyed by the Soviets
and rebuilt in 1989.
Panoramic of Old Town Vilnius from the Gediminas Tower.
The new secion of Vilnius.
The Baltic Way was a human
chain created as a protest to
Soviet occupation in 1989.  
See the PDF and video.
The hill of Gediminas Castle
From the tower the south section
of the castle complex.