Day 135. Sunday visit to Liubavas Manor.

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From the Europos park you can go straight to Liubavas Manor.

It's located 15 km away from the Park, and reachable on foot from Skirgiškės bus stop in 43 min walk on Saulės aleja and then trought the the Tartokių forest. That was a really nice walk with no wet places. :)

NOTE!

When Google Maps shows that something is quite away,  always check map.lt!

Maps.lt knows all passages, all paths and all so called dog-paths!

It will lead you by picking the shortest way available to anywhere. 

From my point of view Liubavas Manor turned out to be a little dissapointing.

Manor consists of 3 remaining buildings: a building of Orangery, an officine, and a building of a Watermill. The museum is located in the Watermill building (a shop also). 

I wanted to get a Magnet, like I always do, but they do not have magnets at all!!!

Hey, what kind of tourist spot shop you are, if you do not have magnets!!!

Like Mr Trumps would say: I was very very dissapointed.

The Officine is on the left and the Orangery on the right

There are no rest benches there :(

And you can not get into these 2 buildings. 

Next spot: Balsys Lake beach!

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.

Day 129. May 1 in the Europos park

Wow, such a huge Vilnius fan I am and I have never been to  the Europos park before.

It was founded in 1991. It occupies 55 ha territory.

96 sculptures to see are officially marked on the visitors map.

The park could be walked around in 2 hours on quite a slow walk.

Admission fee: 11 eur / adults.

Similar place in Vilnius but much smaller and for free: Jeruzale Sculptures Garden.

Series of: #VilniusSculptures

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Location: Joneikiškių village, Vinius region. 19 km from the Vilnius centre. 

TOP 3 MOST  RECOGNIZABLE SCUPLTURES

No.1

LNK Infotree by Gintaras Karosas

No. 2

The Armchair - Swimming Pool

No. 3

The Structure drinking water from Kidney Pond

TOP 3 SCULPTURES I LIKED THE MOST:

No.1

Lying Head

No 2

Double negativity Piramide

:D Something for me

No. 3

Penalty to Europes Abductor

OK, and No 4

Culture by Gintaras Karosas

Place belongs to a private owner: Mr Gintaras Karosas.

And this is a time when all forests slopes are blue in blossoms of Hepatica (Or liverleaf, or liverwort).

How to get there without a car?

Take any bus towards Santariškės (yes, yes, exactly Village of Santa) and get off at Jeruzalė stop. Then take bus No 66 towards Skirgiškės and get off at Europos Parkas. Voila! You are at the ticket box. 

Next spot: Liubavas Manor!