Day 128. Short trip to Trakų Vokė Manor

#AroundVilnius

Traku Vokė Manor, one of the few manors in / around Vilnius, is located around 20km away from the city centre.

To be precise Traku Vokė is still located on the Vilnius City territory.

Construction 1876-1880

Architect: Leandro Marconi (or in Polish)

Traku Voke Manor was deserted for many years, however it has received financing from EU funds and I believe it will be brought back to its days of splendour again.

Trakų Vokė Manor page was launched this year 2019 ( And I really hope that the page will be active for a long yers).

In December 2019 175 young linden are planned to be grown @Manor (on 15min.lt in LT).

Best time to visit  it is of course Spring-Summer when all the surroundings are green.

Trakų Vokė Manor as well as Lentvaris Manor (Day 57) belonged to graphs Tyszkiewiczowie, Juozapas Mykolas Tiškevičius , the 2nd Manager of Majoratas in Astravas is mentioned as it's Owner. 

#TyszkiewiczPalaces

Manor is surrounded by the English style landscape garden by a Frech landscape designer Edouarde Andre (also creator of the Lentvaris Manor Garden).

From the garden you can reach Monkey Bridge over the Vokė River and the Vokė train station.

Trakų Vokė Manor you could be visites on the way together with Memorial Museum of Paneriai.

Or you can reach Trakų Vokė Manor: 
by train till Vokė station, or by bus 51 from Žemieji Paneriai till Eduardo Andre stop.

Soviet utopian ideas of Vilnius

#UnrealizedProjects

LRT yesterday published an article: Abortive utopias in Vilnius-from-soviet Palaces to Metro and Marina

The contents from itself  is not bad, but translation is quite poor...

Day 127. Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum. To be visited.

 #ToBeVisited

I've never never been to Lithuanian Theater Music and Cinema Museum which also operates in one of Radziwills Palaces located in Vilnius. 

And on the whole it should be visited one day. 

It's really odd that their webpage exists only in Lithuanian.

To be continued ...

Day 126. The Radziwill Palace (Vilniaus str.). To be visited

 #ToBeVisited

The Radziwill Palace at Vilniaus str.  where The Radvila Palace Museum of Art   should be visited till March 2021.

I've been in is museum once or twice, but new rooms are restored and more  rooms are opened for exhibitions and visitors. 

to be continued ...

visited on the last Sunday of June 2021

Day 125. Petras Repšys and his frescos. To be visited.

 #ToBeVisited

Probably the most famous work of Petras Repšys is frescos Seasons in the Centre of Lithuanian language of Vilnius University

National Museum of Lithuania will be exhibiting works of Petras Repšys till March 2021.

to be visited .... :) 

Day 77. edition 2. Vilnius Culture Night vol. 2020. Vilnius Festivals

 #VilniusFestivals

as I said on day 77 , Vilnius Culture Night usually takes place in the middle of June.

However, due to well known reasons,  vol. 2020 took place on September 25.

My top 1 thing to see was lights performance on Sports and Concerts Palace. 

Day 124. Kayaking in Vilnius. Vokė

 well... 

#activeinVilnius

you can choose to spend your weekend day on kayaking in Vilnius. 

One of people that are organizing kayaking in Vilnius is vilniausbaidares.lt 

And one of the rivers in Vilnius you can choose is Vokė.

As I've said in my Lithuanian blog Vokė - is a tricky river.

It is shallow, and full of stones. Our route started in Baltoji Vokė and ended in Grigiškės.  it took us more than 5 hours to do 18 km.  

We had to overcome one serious obstacle: the Mūrinė Vokė damn.

We had to carry our kayaks trought the street to Lentvaris.

We had a lunch between the bridge to Trakai and the Railway Bridge.