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(Darbą įkėlė Svečias)

Darbas:

It has also suffered from a few fairly major fires over the years, but looks pretty impressive today, and the small park surrounding it is the ideal spot for a few beers on a sunny day.
After this brief religious detour head back into the heart of the Old Town. Take the road called Rusu which is opposite the Church of the Holy Mother of God and then go down either Literatu or Latako. This will bring you out in Rotuses aikste, or the Old Town Square, which is actually more of a triangle and which is a continuation of Piles gatve (although it is now called Didzioj instead).
There are numerous buildings worth exploring on the Old Town Square. Starting at its bottom (Northern) end is a small museum, The Slapeliai House (Piles 40, closed Mondays and Tuesdays) which holds a small art gallery and dedicated to Lithuanian Nationalism and the revival of the Lithuanian language in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Next up is yet another Church, this one Orthodox with the rather

unusual name of the Church of Paraskovila Piatnickaya, built in the 14th century and renovated (i.e. more or less rebuilt) in the 19th . Fans of the Russian poet Pushkin might find this place interesting; his great grandfather (an African slave, "owned" by Peter the Great) was baptised here. Further on up the square at Didzioj 4 is the Vilnius Picture Gallery, a collection of 16th to 19th century Lithuanian art. Next up there's yet another Orthodox Church, the Church of St Nicholas the Wonder Worker; originally started in the 14th century (on the site of an older, wooden Church) but much rebuilt over the years after fires and to keep up with architectural fashion.
About half way up the Square is a road called Savidaus upon which you'll find another museum, the Ciurlionis House. Mikolojus Ciurlionis, who used to live here, was a writer, painter, composer and general all-round renaissance man. Various personal artefacts of his are kept here, including his piano, and concerts are also regularly held here. Go futrher along Savidaus for another Church, that of the 18th century St Mary the Soothing.
Heading back to the Old Town Square, at its top end is stands the column-fronted Old Town Hall, which has been here since the 16th century although its current appearance owes more to 18th century rebuilding . Fans of modern art might find the Contemporary Arts Centre (on Vokieciu, just behind the Town Hall) interesting. There are often temporary exhibits in the Town Hall itself.
To the East of the Town Hall is yet another Church (get used to it, there are hundreds of the buggers still to come). This one's the Church of St Casimir, built in the early 16th century. In the past this has been pressed into service as an Orthodox Church under the Tsars, a Protestant Temple under the Nazis, and,