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Trakai Park was founded in 1991 by the Lithuanian Restoration Seimas in order to preserve cultural sites of Lithuanian historical statehood along with their genuine natural environs. In this unique and compact ensemble of natural and cultural heritage, which reflects important periods and events in the history of Lithuania and eastern Europe as a whole, we can see a beautifully preserved cultural landscape centred on an historic town and castles which are nestled in lake land. Here there are traditional agricultural villages, fieldscapes and areas where primaeval natural formations still survive. The value of Trakai Park has been preserved finely and its special status has been recognised and protected by a whole body of national legislation.
The polyethnic town of (New) Trakai with its Lithuanians, Karaites, Tatars, Jews, Russians, Germans and Poles grew up beside the castles and had broad political and commercial links with European towns and their communities and traditions of mediaeval sacral, secular and defensive architecture, secular and religious art and literature. The town had a unique form of self-administration based on Magdeburg Law and from the fifteenth century autonomous Christian and Karaite communities governed their own affairs. Trakai was the centre of a separate duchy in the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries, which stretched to Brest Litovsk in the south (now part of Belarus) and Bir2ai in the north (close to the modern Latvian border), and it was an important residence of the rulers of Lithuania. Trakai was a favourite grand-ducal residence, an acknowledged centre for political theatre with hunting and diplomatic rituals, ecclesiastical holidays and trade fairs.
This little Guy is such a lovely and happy little Boy. I love Window Light and old windows and i whish i had those at my Home here too
It may look like an abstract photo, but this is actually a closeup of the transluscent windows in the hood of a Darlingtonia.
They are SUCH cool plants!
لا تــنــظــر إلــى الــحــيــاة مــن وراء الــنــافــذة ،،،
لأنــهــا لــن تــنــتــظــرك حــتــى تــخــرج
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لمشـــاهدة أفضـــل اضغط حرف
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best view
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وللمفضلة اختار حرف
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for favorites
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Happy Window Wednesday (HWW)
Stack of two images, one focused on the flower, and the other focused on the reflection within the droplet.
MAN Lion's City Double Decker da Sociedade de Transportes Colectivos do Porto efectuando a linha 500 rumo ao Mercado de Matosinhos.