{"id":35939,"date":"2022-02-17T11:58:43","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T09:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trakai-visit.lt\/?p=35939"},"modified":"2025-02-27T09:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T07:44:08","slug":"vytautas-the-great-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trakai-visit.lt\/en\/vytautas-the-great-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Vytautas the Great road"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\r\n<p>History lovers are very familiar with the road leading toward Senieji Trakai. Commemorating the 570<sup>th\u00a0<\/sup>anniversary of the death of the duke, Trakai Historical National Park Management decided to revive the symbolic Vytautas the Great road. The community of Senieji Trakai participated in this project. In the year 2000, the road was officially opened to the public \u2013 the Trakai\u2013Senieji Trakai route included nine stops and nine wayside shrines that symbolize important events and achievements in the life of Vytautas the Great.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Travelers first encounter a roadside pole dedicated to Saint Jurgis built at the earliest, in 1998. This sculpture stands on a small hill with a beautiful vista of Trakai Island Castle, Trakai Basilica, and reflects the Great Duke&#8217;s militant character, and the fierceness of his battles and victories. The place marks the beginning of the road to the historical capital of Lithuania \u2013 Senieji Trakai. Saint Casimir&#8217;s wayside shrine tells the story of Vytautas the Great as a builder of castles and churches. And the arrival of Benedictine monks to Senieji Trakai is commemorated with the wayside shrine of Saint Benedict.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A couple riding on a horse symbolizes \u2018The escape to Egypt\u2019 and serves to remind us about the arrival of Karaites in Lithuania. The woman holds a basket with cucumbers and tells us that it was the Karaites who introduced cucumber and how to grow it in Lithuania. The historical princess of Egypt, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, the patron saint of students reminds us about Vytautas\u2019 campaign to send youth to study in western Europe and the first Lithuanian student at Krakow University was Mykolas who came from Senieji Trakai!<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Near the entrance of Senieji Trakai stands a sculpture honoring the duke&#8217;s parents K\u0119stutis and Birut\u0117. They hold a crown from Vytautas which never reached them. \u2018A Suffering Pieta\u2019 recalls a painful time when K\u0119stutis was killed in Kr\u0117va castle. This roadside pole is held in special esteem by locals\u2013 they maintain a beautiful flower bed around it and frequently pray here. There is a sculpture of the Blessed Virgin Mary with Baby Jesus in the old castle place which symbolizes the purity of motherhood and love of the homeland.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Finally, the last wooden sculpture built depicts a sitting Duke Vytautas with a sword in one hand and Lithuania&#8217;s statehood symbol Vytis \u2013 in another.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;] History lovers are very familiar with the road leading toward Senieji Trakai. Commemorating the 570th\u00a0anniversary of the death of the duke, Trakai Historical National Park Management decided to revive the symbolic Vytautas the Great road. The community of Senieji Trakai participated in this project. 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