As www.15min.lt informes, today, Vilnius City Municipality council has taken a decision that a future monument to a patriarch of a nation dr. Jonas Basanavičius will be erected on a square in front of Lithuanian National Philharmony on Ausros Vartu str.
Vilnius City Municipality photo / Monument to Jonas Basanavicius
Lithuanian National Philharmony at night
Decision was taken this year, when we celebrate 165th birthday of Jonas Basanavicius.
City municipality has formed a special working group which was dealing with that issue. Decision was taken with taking into consideration opinion of Vilnius residents, representatives of Lithuanian Artists' Association and Lithuanian Architects' Association.
This place was chosen because it is from historical and cultural as well as from urbanistic and architectural perspective the most closely connected with social and pilitcal activity of Jonas Basanavicius.
Konstantinas Sirvydas Square, proposed by Lithuanian National Museum and was rejected as a place for a future monument because it is urbanistically inconvienient.
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