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Kryžių kalnas - Mountain of Crosses

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Kryžių kalnas - Mountain of Crosses
Inserted: 19.03.2022
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The Mountain of Crosses is an artificially built hill on which thousands of crosses are erected. It is the most important place of pilgrimage in the whole Baltic. During the Soviet era, there were several attempts to destroy the site, but it failed, and the locals always restored it.

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