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These pictures almost didn't happen.
I was on my way to work last night when I passed by this beauty. There was very little traffic, and I had PLENTY of time before I had to be at work. But for some strange reason, I just kept on going. As soon as I drove past I knew I had to drive back to snap some pics.
Getting back to this car took some doing, which didn't exactly make me happy. But I knew if I didn't go back I would be kicking myself for a very long time to come.
SO SO glad I did. The light couldn't have been much better. It was early evening, and most of the car was already covered in shadows, minimizing a lot of those pesky hot spots on the chrome. Near perfect shooting conditions. And all that yummy green reflected in the chrome — I didn't even know I had captured that until I sat down to look at all the pics I had snapped — some pretty tasty "icing" on an already delicious "cake"!
When it was all said and done, I had taken just over 200 photos in about half an hour. I was SO pleased with how a lot of them turned out. And here I almost didn't stop. What on earth was I thinking???!!!
Note to self:
If you have time STOP. If you don't have time, MAKE the time. Because you may never get another opportunity with the same conditions. I mean, that car more than likely would have been gone the next time I was in the area (which, as it turns out, wouldn't have been until a full week later).
This 1949 Buick Roadmaster, with only 95,000 miles on her, is selling for $8,600. The FOR SALE sign says "Runs Great". I thought that would make a good title. :-)
UPDATE:
Six days after seeing this car it is no longer there. Yep...ALWAYS stop.
○•. Taken with an iPhone 5s .•○
A Pratt and Whitney F135 engine on the engine test stand at Edwards Air Force Base, California, performing a high power engine run.
(runs alongside chalk pit area now all part of Malling Down Nature Reserve. This area (worked for 000's of years) also had metal trackways to take chalk away from pits down towards Lewes, using pack horses for final part of journey, down to the river for onward transport. There was also a "hamlet" here where the men lived who worked at the pits......)
I'd say at least 7,000 vehicles were licensed in `45 Colorado. I grabbed a tighter shot of this implement at Mac. Last licensed in 1945, it surely is a clue as to why our US infrastructure, roads and bridges have been destroyed; well, that and the righties. I am using a McIntosh Ag Museum shot to finish a rust belt series by adding more rust and weeds. There is a lot more rust to come on this. This certainly is a fitting title for this image. This machinery is for the ages, the iron ages! This is some kind of wierd plowing implement, it must be an older iron implement and possibly horse-drawn but probably not in 1945. I see some rust on it. It had to be iron heavy in order to be able to "bite" into the soil. I ought to go again and figure out the exact function but who knows. I'd surely like to see some of the implements in operation. Some parts MAY be discombobulated.
This June found a return to hot temperatures. Wundermaps reported 101 degrees while I was out there. Whew! The direct sun blazed across the scene. I decided that I had missed some shots at McIntosh and went out in the baking sun. We are still here at the end of September waiting for autumn, cool temperatures denied by Fossilized climate destruction.
Highway #66 was overloaded with early summer travelers to the hills, probably not knowing summer might not arrive until July in the Rockies. They were still dumping a lot of snow into the rivers yet there are plenty of folks willing to jump in and drown. Fine by me although social news and media seems to whine!
A Class 127 diesel hydraulic unit is seen running into St Albans City Station, with a service towards St Pancras, circa 1979. The future track layout has already been laid, with the new turnback siding joined to the up and down slow lines already in situ. Colour light signalling is already in operation and the electric catenary supports are already in place, awaiting the first visit of the wiring train.
To the right can be seen the former goods yard area, which later had the Verulam Point development built on it, along with a new station car park. I can distinctly remember a burnt out green Vauxhall Viva being left on this wasteland for a considerable time in the mid-1980's! On the left a 'Peak' hauled express can be seen on the up fast line.
Scanned from an acquired slide.
never runs out on me.
being thankful for that simple fact is enough to bring me joy.
learning, falling, failing, thanking, praising, regretting, wandering, losing, finding, crying, laughing. it's been an up and down week. but in the end, it all leads me to the Maker of it all.
i am happy to keep taking honest photographs, they are so real, they are my life. they turn moments into memories. this is one of them.
sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
~ Miguel De Cervantes
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O Love, what hours were thine and mine,
In lands of palm and southern pine;
In lands of palm, of orange-blossom,
Of olive, aloe, and maize and vine.
~ Alfred Tennyson
iss063e070752 (Aug. 14, 2020) --- Klamath River, pictured from the International Space Station, runs through Oregon just north of the border with California.
Common terns making their bomb runs on me. You can see them take off from that "Flat Top" across the mud slough. I have never seen such incredible aggressiveness to defend their base and I wasn't even close.
Camera: Nexus 6
I won my first doll related giveaway from Phyllis, who runs the blog A Day In The Life Of My Dolls. I’ve been following her blog cuz its a unique, eclectic grouping of dolls with stories and customizations of dolls which is something I always enjoy seeing from another collector. She also posts pretty regularly to Flickr so check it when you can.I was so excited to receive this MTM cuz the black version has not turned up in stores in Australia at all and this point she probably will never. Phyllis also included a dress which is great cuz its in my fav shade of blue-green.Anyway, the two contenders for this body are at my house and I’m at my bf’s for the moment so I guess Asha can keep her body intact for now...
An unidentified Berlin ADtranz GT6N tram runs down the central reservation of Berliner Straße in the Pankow district of the city, and approaches the Masurenstraße stop on routes 50 and M1. It appears to be a route 50 depot working.
The GT6N trams were built between 1994 and 2003, but from 2012 to 2017 had their electrical control and drive systems upgraded, being reclassified as GT6U (upgrades from 2011 to 2016) or GTNO (upgrades in 2016 and 2017) and renumbered from 10xx to 15xx or 12xx respectively (so at this stage, most had yet to be upgraded). Unfortunately, a closer view of this tram shows there is no fleet number in the usual place (the corner closest to the camera), so it's not possible to identify it.
This was taken on the last day of a five-day trip to Germany. I'd flown out from Stansted to Halle / Leipzig with a friend on the Friday, and we'd stayed two nights in Dresden for a railtour around the Wattenfall coal system on the Saturday. We went our separate ways on Sunday; I travelled by a roundabout route to Berlin (using a Schönes Wochenende Ticket), which included finishing the Frankfurt an der Oder tram system by travelling over a short section which had been closed when I'd visited a few months earlier (on my way back from the PTG Lithuania tour). On Monday I used a Brandenburg Land ticket to do some DB lines I needed, but I stayed in Berlin on the Tuesday as I was flying home on the mid-evening flight from Schönefeld.
It was a lovely day, and most of it was spent on the tram network. I attempted some photography of one elevated section of U-Bahn, but from the street below I felt too much of the trains were obscured by the ironwork of the viaducts. There were some lovely autumn colours, but I didn't alight for tram photography in what would have been the best place for that, and when I got here found I was already too late for the best sun angle. But with the tram in the distance, I think this one works better than all the others.
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Shijō Street (四条通, Shijō-dōri) runs in the center of Kyoto, Japan from east to west through the commercial center of the city. Shijō literally means Fourth Avenue of Heian-kyō, the ancient capital.
The eastern end of the street is Yasaka Shrine and the western end is Matsunoo Shrine. The street is particularly busy with pedestrians and traffic from the east end to Karasuma Street. The east end passes through the courtesan's district of Gion, with the historic street of Hanami Lane branching off to the south, with the famous Ichiriki Chaya at the corner. It then crosses the Kamo River at Shijō Bridge, and from there to Karasuma Street (Shijō Karasuma) the sidewalk is covered (except at major streets) and features several department stores, such as Daimaru and Marui. The center of this area is the intersection with Kawaramachi Street (Shijō Kawaramachi), a very busy shopping area.
The city of Kyoto has enforced a smoking ban on this street, on the busy section from Yasaka Shrine to Karasuma street, and in the surrounding districts.
During the Gion Matsuri in the month of July, the Naginata-hoko, the Kanko-boko, Tsuki-hoko, Kakkyo-yama and Shijō-Kasa-Boko are built on the street. The street is also part of the route of the Yamaboko Junkō parade.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shij%C5%8D_Street
japonismo.com/blog/itinerarios-centro-de-kioto
La calle Shijō (四条通, Shijō-dōri) discurre en el centro de Kioto, Japón, de este a oeste por el centro comercial de la ciudad. Shijō significa literalmente Cuarta Avenida de Heian-kyō, la antigua capital.
En el extremo oriental de la calle se encuentra el Santuario Yasaka y en el occidental el Santuario Matsunoo. La calle es especialmente transitada por peatones y tráfico desde el extremo este hasta la calle Karasuma. El extremo este pasa por el distrito cortesano de Gion, con la histórica calle de Hanami que se ramifica hacia el sur, con la famosa Ichiriki Chaya en la esquina. Luego cruza el río Kamo en el puente Shijō, y desde allí hasta la calle Karasuma (Shijō Karasuma) la acera está cubierta (excepto en las calles principales) y cuenta con varios grandes almacenes, como Daimaru y Marui. El centro de esta zona es la intersección con la calle Kawaramachi (Shijō Kawaramachi), una zona comercial muy concurrida.
La ciudad de Kioto ha impuesto la prohibición de fumar en esta calle, en el concurrido tramo que va desde el santuario de Yasaka hasta la calle Karasuma, y en los distritos circundantes.
Durante el Gion Matsuri, en el mes de julio, se construyen en la calle el Naginata-hoko, el Kanko-boko, el Tsuki-hoko, el Kakkyo-yama y el Shijō-Kasa-Boko. La calle también forma parte del recorrido del desfile Yamaboko Junkō.
NS 798 runs around their train on the pocket track at Belmont. This train came in empty and is going out with loaded excess coal. Belmont trains have been very, very sporadic over the past few years, so any movement of a coal train here is rare.
Woodford Folk Festival 2017. The festival runs annually for 6 days and 6 nights from Christmas till after New Years. It is located in a very rural area about 100km north west of Brisbane. This year it is the 31st time the event has been held. They annually tend to get about 130.000 visitors. Most of them camping on site. There are about 438 events held in 35 performance venues. About 2000 performers take part. Lots of national and international acts. As it is the hottest (and usually the wettest) time of the year it is quite a feat. Accommodation is simple. Electricity only at central points. Wifi sketchy. So it is just sweat, mud and fun. (and very little sleep). Lots of street performers also roam the 'streets'. Lots of workshops, lots of yoga. obviously. And so on. A good way to see in the new year
6441 runs round its train at Rawtenstall, East Lancashire Railway, 26th January 2025. (Eric Harrison)
"Economics is on the side of humanity now."
– Isaac Asimov, in "The Currents of Space" (1952).
"Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings."
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Kavanagh: A Tale"(1849), Chapter XIII.
"The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say."
– Ramsey Clark
In case you've ever wondered how Santa manages to deliver all these presents in a single night. Well, he's got his squad of little helpers and they can build him SPACE SLEIGH!!! 😉🎅🚀
This powerful machine is 100% bio-fueled as it runs on milk and cookies. Also fitted with chocolate chips afterburner!
37422 Having Been "Victorious" on completing her full season of 3J51 DRS RA5 Hauled RHTT on the Wolds Coast and also the night shift 3S20 runs etc... she eagerley awaits some well deserved and hard earned TLC from us at the Depot...
Later that day she would emerge from York Holgate Thrall Works blue again with white wheel rims and red bufferbeams ready for my friend and I to tackle her brown window frames, the grime on the bonnet tops and the nose 16/12/2023
Urandangi was found in 1885 and proclaimed a town in 1891 on the Georgina Stock Route. Here, the Boulia, Cloncurry, and Camooweal mail runs converged. It was also an important stopover for drovers taking Northern Territory cattle to market. In its heyday Urandangi boasted two stores, hotels, a dance hall, a post office, a police station, a school, and several private residences. From the 1920s to the 1940's there were over 400 people living in the area. The dispute over the name Urandangi or Urandangie remains unclear, as many early documents add the 'e' whilst some maps simply use 'i'.
Small rural cemeteries differ from those in towns. Fewer graves are marked: the headstones were often freighted from Townsville stonemasons like Melrose and Fenwick or Petrie of Brisbane. Many families could not afford such memorials, so timber was used, but in termite country, they rarely lasted. The epitaphs of people buried in the local cemetery may seem mundane, but their contribution in establishing homes and industries paved the way for present prosperity. Aboriginal custom does not allow the name of a deceased person to be mentioned after they have died nor are their photographs shown publicly.
A Country Women's Association (CWA) branch was formed at Urandangi in 1924. Anne Thomas, of Headingly Station, was elected President. She and the community raised funds for the hall and tennis court. They were open in May 1926. Two months later, Ann was buried in the cemetery. She was 56 years of age. The hall was used until its demolition in 1999.
Urandangi once had a terrible reputation for violence and drunkardness. This came to an end when Victorian born Pam Forster purchased the Urandangi Hotel in 2008, after relocating from Western Australia's Kimberley region to take over the notorious hotel. Determined to transform the outback village into a peaceful, clean, bush-connected community, having the keys to the pubs front door meant Forster had the upper hand over degenerate behaviour. If patrons caused trouble, she would close. Gradually, over time, Urandangi become a humble outback community and attracts tourism. There are only two publically accessible settlements between the Queensland and Northern Territory border; Urandangi and Camooweal.
In late 2022 and March 2023 the region saw intense flooding from the Georgina River when waters rose to 7m. Residents were forced to evacuate to Mount Isa whilst many have not returned. The hotel was severely damaged, with a repair bill quoted at half a million dollars. Without an operating hotel, which served the community as a post office, centrelink, and general shop, services in Urandangi are obsolete. The future of the community is uncertain.
Source: Queensland Heritage Trails Network, Boulia Shire Council & ABC News.
The rope runs from the reel through the pulley at the end of the superlift arm and up to another pulley at the boom head. From there it returns to an attachment point beside the pulley at the end of the superlift arm. All this will become clearer over the next few days.
D&E Coaches City Sightseeing Inverness Dennis Trident Plaxton President S88 YST is pictured here on Castle Street in Inverness while it runs the final service of the day on the Blue Route Tour to various stops including Culloden Battlefield. It's seen in this shot passing Inverness Castle. This is one of 3 photos snipped out of this particular video clip I took, this particular one being the only one with the castle fully in frame. Unfortunately this particular day was very cloudy but I do have photos of it here on a sunny day, those will come at another time when I reach that point of the backlog.
This vehicle wears the red City Sightseeing Inverness livery and recently I discovered something about this bus. Of course the blue interior is a Lothian Buses thing, but what I didn't know til recently is that the flooring and seats inside are actually also original Lothian, meaning that in every single way except maybe the speakers in the bus, it's literally just a Lothian with a different skin! It was already my favourite bus but that just added further to that!
S88 YST was new to Lothian Buses in November 2002 as SK52 OHN (Fleet Number 651). Its first livery was, rather obviously, the Harlequin livery, which it had from its first day until approximately the end of 2011. 2012 saw it get repainted into the Forth Bridges Bus & Boat Tour livery and a new registration of XIL 1484 while continuing with its original fleet number. It ran in this livery until 2017, at which point it was painted into the new 3 Bridges Tour livery, the design of which is based on the current Madder & White Fleet Of The Future corporate livery Lothian currently use. 2019 saw the bus transfer to Stagecoach Highlands (Inverness) to replace an ALX400 which had caught fire in 2018. With its original reg SK52 OHN re-applied, SK52 OHN received its City Sightseeing Inverness livery and ran one of the service slots throughout that year. It transferred to D&E Coaches in 2021 as part of their acquisition of the Sightseeing tour operations into their subsidiary D&E Tours, however SK52 OHN sat out that year with D&E's newly obtained Gemini 2 and the ALX400 that came from Stagecoach running instead. This year, with the ALX400 not returning, SK52 OHN made a triumphant return under its latest reg plate S88 YST.
Date Taken: September 4th, 2022
Device Used: Motorola Moto G100
Date Uploaded: December 12th, 2022
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Advanced runs quite a few of these, and they run all types of routes, both trash and recycle, carted and non carted routes. They have about an equal amount of these M2s and LEUs
Class 40 40127 passes a Dmu as it runs past Chester Depot. 21/07/1979.
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Pike Drain as it runs through Boultham Park in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.
The Pike Drain leaves the River Witham in two sections, one at Boultham Park and the other by Manor Farm south of Bracebridge. It runs through Whisby Nature Park before ending 4 miles later to the east of a village named Eagle. It may have been cut at same time as the Main and Catchwater Drains as part of Lincoln West Drainage Scheme between 1804 and 1816.
Boultham Park was formerly part of the estate of Boultham Hall before being purchased by the City in 1931 and laid out as a public park. All the buildings have been demolished except the lodges and gate piers of 1872, by William Watkins. It covers an area of 20 hectares and became a Grade II Registered Park and Garden in 1968.
390 039 runs ECS with 5M60 1745 Carstairs to Carlisle service . The West Coast Main line was having a bad day with power supply problems hence the train being ECS. Taken at Crawford on a lovely June evening.
It was a bitter cold day at Carstairs as Class 40 40131 runs through light engine, I had this loco from here to Edinburgh that day. 24/03/1979.
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L544 runs back north to pick up outbound cars set out by the Kaskaskia River Railroad, after having set out a block of cars for KRRC in their weekday coordinated meeting in Lenzburg, IL.
The Rochdale Canal in Sowerby Bridge, Calderdale, West Yorkshire.
The Rochdale is a broad canal because its locks are wide enough to allow vessels of 14 feet width. The canal runs for 32 miles (51 km) across the Pennines from the Bridgewater Canal at Castlefield Basin in Manchester to join the Calder and Hebble Navigation at Sowerby Bridge in West Yorkshire. As built, the canal had 92 locks. Whilst the traditional lock numbering has been retained on all restored locks, and on the relocated locks, the canal now has 91. Locks 3 and 4 have been replaced with a single deep lock, Tuel Lane Lock, which is numbered 3/4.
The Rochdale Canal was conceived in 1776, when a group of 48 men from Rochdale raised £237 and commissioned James Brindley to conduct a survey of possible routes between Sowerby Bridge and Manchester. Brindley proposed a route similar to the one built, and another more expensive route via Bury. Further progress was not made until 1791, when John Rennie was asked to make a new survey in June, and two months later to make surveys for branches to Rochdale, Oldham and to a limeworks near Todmorden. Rennie at the time had no experience of building canals.
The promoters, unsure as to whether to build a wide or a narrow canal, postponed the decision until an Act of Parliament had been obtained. The first attempt to obtain an act was made in 1792, but was opposed by mill owners, concerned about water supply. Rennie proposed using steam pumping engines, three in Yorkshire, eight in Lancashire, and one on the Burnley Branch, but the mill owners argued that 59 mills would be affected by the scheme, resulting in unemployment, and the bill was defeated. In September 1792, William Crosley and John Longbotham surveyed the area in an attempt to find locations for reservoirs which would not affect water supplies to the mills. A second bill was presented to Parliament, for a canal which would have a 3,000-yard (2,700 m) tunnel and 11 reservoirs. Again the bill was defeated, this time by one vote. The promoters, in an attempt to understand the mill owners' position, asked William Jessop to survey the parts of the proposed canal that were causing most concern. Jessop gave evidence to the Parliamentary committee, and on 4 April 1794 an act was obtained which created the Rochdale Canal Company and authorised construction.
Rennie's estimated cost in the second bill was £291,000, and the company was empowered to raise the money by issuing shares, with powers to raise a further £100,000 if required. The estimate was for a narrow canal, whereas the act authorised a broad canal, and so the capital was never going to be adequate. The summit tunnel was abandoned in favour of 14 additional locks saving £20,000. Jessop proposed constructing each lock with a drop of 10 feet (3.0 m), resulting in efficient use of water and the need to manufacture only one size of lock gate.
The canal opened in stages as sections were completed, with the Rochdale Branch the first in 1798 and further sections in 1799. The bottom nine locks opened in 1800 and boats using the Ashton Canal could reach Manchester. Officially, the canal opened in 1804, but construction work continued for more three years. A 1.5-mile (2.4 km) branch from Heywood to Castleton opened in 1834.
Apart from a short profitable section in Manchester linking the Bridgewater and Ashton Canals, most of the length was closed in 1952 when an act of parliament was obtained to ban public navigation. The last complete journey had taken place in 1937, and by the mid 1960s the remainder was almost unusable. Construction of the M62 motorway in the late 1960s took no account of the canal, cutting it in two.
When an Act of Parliament was sought in 1965, to authorise the abandonment of the canal, the Inland Waterways Association petitioned against it, and when it was finally passed, it contained a clause that ensured the owners would maintain it until the adjacent Ashton Canal was abandoned. Discussion of the relative merits of restoring the canal or the Huddersfield Narrow Canal in 1973 led the formation of societies to promote both schemes in 1974. The Rochdale Canal Society wanted to see the canal fully re-opened, as part of a proposed Pennine Park
The Rochdale Canal Society worked hard both to protect the line of the canal and to begin the process of refurbishing it. A new organisational structure was created in 1984, with the formation of the Rochdale Canal Trust Ltd, who leased the canal from the owning company. The MSC-funded restoration was approaching Sowerby Bridge, where planners were proposing a tunnel and deep lock to negotiate a difficult road junction at Tuel Lane, so that a connection could be made with the Calder and Hebble Navigation. The entire eastern section from Sowerby Bridge to the summit at Longlees was open by 1990, although it remained isolated from the canal network.
In 1997, the Rochdale Canal Trust was restructured, in response to announcements that there might be large grants available as part of the millennium celebrations. The canal was still at this point owned by a private company, and the Millennium Commission would not make grants to a scheme which was for private profit, rather than public benefit. The restructuring would allow the Trust to take over responsibility for the canal from the Rochdale Canal Company. However, the plan was rejected by the Commission, and in order to access the grant of £11.3 million, the Waterways Trust took over ownership of the canal. As restoration proceeded, boats could travel further and further west, and the restoration of the sections through Failsworth and Ancoats were a significant part of the re-development of the north Manchester districts. The restored sections joined up with the section in Manchester below the Ashton Canal junction, which had never been closed, and on 1 July 2002 the canal was open for navigation along its entire length.
It looks as though coal has just arrived at Abrams as the crew is still on the MP15DC wearing Reading paint.
UP 578 runs solo down an industrial spur in downtown Salt Lake City through a bit of parking lot. The following year Grain Craft would close the remaining grain silo on the end of this track, and the rails would eventually be lifted.
St. Peter and St. Paul's Church is a Roman Catholic church located in the Antakalnis neighbourhood of Vilnius, Lithuania.
Construction was begun in 1688 and the decorative works were completed in 1704.
It is the centerpiece of a former monastery complex of the Canons Regular of the Lateran.
Its interior has masterful compositions of some 2,000 stucco figures by Giovanni Pietro Perti and ornamentation by Giovanni Maria Galli and is unique in Europe.
The church is considered a masterpiece of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Baroque.
The interior of the church changed relatively little since that time.
The major change was the loss of the main altar. The wooden altar was moved to the Catholic church in Daugai in 1766.[4]
The altar is now dominated by the Farewell of St. Peter and St. Paul, a large painting by Franciszek Smuglewicz, installed there in 1805.
The interior was restored by Giovanni Beretti and Nicolae Piano from Milan in 1801–04.[11]
At the same time, a new pulpit imitating the ship of Saint Peter was installed.
In 1864, as reprisal for the failed January Uprising, Mikhail Muravyov-Vilensky closed the monastery and converted its buildings into military barracks.[11]
There were plans to turn the church into an Eastern Orthodox church, but they never materialized.[11] In 1901–05, the interior was restored again. The church acquired the boat-shaped chandelier and the new pipe organ with two manuals and 23 organ stops.[12]
The dome was damaged during World War II bombings, but was rebuilt true to its original design.[12]
When in 1956 Vilnius Cathedral was converted into an art museum by Soviet authorities, the silver sarcophagus with sacred relics of Saint Casimir was moved to the St. Peter and St. Paul's Church.[13] The sarcophagus was returned to its place in 1989.
Despite religious persecutions in the Soviet Union, extensive interior restoration was carried out in 1976–87.[11]
About the Decorative Scheme
St. Peter and St. Paul's is one of the most studied churches in Lithuania.[19]
Its interior has over 2,000 different decor elements that creates a stunning atmosphere.[20]
The main author of the decor plan is not known. It could be the founder Pac, monks of the Lateran, or Italian artists.
No documents survive to explain the ideas behind the decorations, therefore various art historians attempted to find one central theme: Pac's life and Polish–Lithuanian relations, teachings of Saint Augustine, Baroque theater, etc.[19]
Art historian Birutė Rūta Vitkauskienė identified several main themes of the decor: structure of the Church as proclaimed at the Council of Trent with Saint Peter as the founding rock, early Christian martyrs representing Pac's interest in knighthood and ladyship, themes relevant to the Canons Regular of the Lateran, and themes inherited from previous churches (painting of Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy and altar of Five Wounds of Christ).[21]
The decor combines a great variety of symbols, from local (patron of Vilnius Saint Christopher) to Italian saints (Fidelis of Como),[22] from specific saints to allegories of virtues.
There are many decorative elements – floral (acanthus, sunflowers, rues, fruits), various objects (military weapons, household tools, liturgical implements, shells, ribbons), figures (puttos, angels, soldiers), fantastical creatures (demons, dragons, centaurs), Pac's coat of arms, masks making various expressions – but they are individualized, rarely repeating.[23]
The architects and sculptors borrowed ideas from other churches in Poland (Saints Peter and Paul Church, Kraków, Sigismund's Chapel of Wawel Cathedral) and Italy (St. Peter's Basilica, Church of the Gesù).[22]
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From the Church's Brochure
The church was erected after the Russian invasion that devastated Vilnius in the mid-17th century.
Barely a dozen years passed, and the capital of Lithuania began to recover.
In 1668 Mykolas Kazimieras Pacas, Hetman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and wojewode of Vilnius, embarked upon the Antakalnis.
The church is decorated by the stucco mouldings of two excellent Italian sculptors, Giovanni Pietro Petri and Giovanni Maria Galli.
The interior of the church consists of the main nave, six chapels on both sides, and the transept.