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Museum / Open-air museum
The Orvidų
16.02.2024: One of the most unique sights in Lithuania is “Orvyda’s Garden”. | Today´s garden was created by the stonemason Kazys Orvydas. In the 1960s, gravestones with Christian symbols were politically undesirable and were destroyed. The stonemason had the task of removing these stones from the cemeteries. He managed to save many of these stones in his “garden” in the forest and meadows. However, his son Vilius Orvydas (1952-1002) gave the decisive ideas for the garden´s current appearance. As a deeply religious person, he designed the garden as a surreal collection of petrified faith in his God and his homeland. Hundreds of stone, marble and wooden sculptures, crosses, figures including an old tank* and a rocket seem as if they come from another world and yet are somehow typical of Lithuania. @
ADDRESS
97318 Gargždelė Plungė
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Pictures of the Poi and surroundings
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Things to see in the area
Kulturgeschichte
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Orvidai Homestead Museum
Parking at the Orvidai Homestead Museum is very quiet open January - December [ click for more information ]
sonstiges
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IKI Centro Supermarkt
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Mariä-Himmelfahrt-Kirche
Very nice brick church with a great atmosphere inside the church. [ click for more information ]