The roof view
The old town's roofs and the two rivers.
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The stone path is a steep ten minutes and slippery when wet; the funicular from the National Museum courtyard solves it for a token fare.
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All that survives of Vilnius's Upper Castle, and the nation's emblem: the octagonal red-brick Gediminas' Tower stands on a hill forty-eight metres above the meeting of the Neris and Vilnia rivers โ built in the fifteenth century on the site of an older wooden fort, and legend says Grand Duke Gediminas dreamed here of an iron wolf howling with the voice of a hundred wolves, which his priest read as a city whose fame would spread through the world โ so he founded Vilnius in 1323. On its roof flies the yellow, green and red Lithuanian flag: first raised in 1919, torn down under the occupations, and restored in 1988 at the first open demonstration against the Soviets โ a moment every Lithuanian knows. Inside is a small museum with castle models, armour and weapons, and its roof gives the best view of the old town's red roofs, the cathedral and the river. Reached by a steep stone path or by funicular from behind the cathedral.
The old town's roofs and the two rivers.
Models, armour and medieval weapons.
Arsenalo g. 5, Vilnius