Small crosses were fixed to large ones

The Hill of Crosses

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July 20th 2019
20 July 2019 From Rundale Palace we drove South into Lithuania and after 50k stopped to look at the Hill of Crosses. This a small hillock where Lithuanians from across the world have planted hundreds of thousands of large and small, elaborate or simple devotional and memorial crosses in a haphazard way. The Lithuanians kept it going during the Soviet era despite the authorities attempts ... read more

Europe » Lithuania

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Independent between the two World Wars, Lithuania was annexed by the USSR in 1940. On 11 March 1990, Lithuania became the first of the Soviet republics to declare its independence, but Moscow did not recognize this proclamation until September of 199... ... read more