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Trakai

Trakai. Made by Augustinas Seniauskas. The second capital of Lithuania - Trakai.

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Trakai

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  1. Trakai Made by Augustinas Seniauskas

  2. The second capital of Lithuania - Trakai

  3. According to a legend after a successful hunting party, Grand Duke Gediminas discovered a beautiful lake-surrounded place not far from Kernavė, then capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and decided to build a castle in the location. That is how the Old Trakai Castle was built in Trakai. The name of Trakai was first mentioned in Teutonic Knights chronicles in 1337. This year is considered to be the official date of town's foundation.

  4. The old Trakai peninsula castle

  5. Trakai castle nowadays

  6. Bridge and castle of Trakai

  7. Trakai is famous for the kibinas, the traditional food, of tatar people who still live in Trakai

  8. Karaims is a small Turkic-speaking religious and ethnic group resettled to Trakai by Grand Duke Vytautas in 1397 from Crimea, after one of his successful military campaigns against the Golden Horde.

  9. The museum of Karaim is the only one in Lithuania and it is in Trakai

  10. The Karaim kenesa

  11. Tyszkiewicz palace on Galvė lake

  12. Trakai is one of the most beautiful city in the Lithuania Please come to visit Trakai 

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