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2023-11-27 (10) Vilnius. Paminklas Adomui Mickevičiui (Monument to Adam Mickiewicz) & šv. Pranciškaus Asyžiečio (Bernardinų) parapija (Church of St. Francis and St. Bernard)

The national poet of Poland is also a lithuanian national poet, because he was born in a region which had been part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania until the Third Partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, three years before he was born...Though his place of birth was far inside present-day Belarus, his language was polish because his family belonged to of the polish land-owning nobility (szlachta)

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Uploaded on December 14, 2023
Taken on November 27, 2023