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The day began with astronomy and ended with archeology, as we visited two of Lithuania’s World Heritage Sites. Looking somewhat like a pet cemetery, this enclosure near Meškonys is one of the country’s three preserved Struve Geodetic Arc sites (📷1). Kernavės archeologinės vietovės muziejus | Kernavė Archaeological Site Museum is a modern, quality museum with two permanent halls, covering prehistory and the Middle Ages. There’s evidence of almost continuous settlement at Kernavė for the past 10,000 years. A signature local find was a bronze pin with a coiled head that accompanied a 1st millennium BCE cremation burial; you can visit the Brushed Pottery Culture burial site, symbolically marked by boulders near the riverbank. The open-air part of the site includes five mounds upon which wooden hill forts were built at various times (📷2) and three reconstructed 13–14th C. craftsmen’s homesteads (📷3). Kernavė became an important feudal town and was for a time the medieval capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was destroyed by retreating defenders when the Teutonic Order attacked in 1390 CE (i.e. “scorched earth” tactics). The viewpoint at Baltas kalnas | White Cliff overlooks the Neris River (📷4); below this steep slope was one of the fording points that the army of the Teutonic Order identified during their march on Kernavė.

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Curiosity Drive 🚐 @[email protected] · 2026-10-01 · 18:06 UTC

The day began with astronomy and ended with archeology, as we visited two of Lithuania’s World Heritage Sites. Looking somewhat like a pet cemetery, this enclosure near Meškonys is one of the country’s three preserved Struve Geodetic Arc sites (📷1). Kernavės archeologinės vietovės muziejus | Kernavė Archaeological Site Museum is a modern, quality museum with two permanent halls, covering prehistory and the Middle Ages. There’s evidence of almost continuous settlement at Kernavė for the past 10,000 years. A signature local find was a bronze pin with a coiled head that accompanied a 1st millennium BCE cremation burial; you can visit the Brushed Pottery Culture burial site, symbolically marked by boulders near the riverbank. The open-air part of the site includes five mounds upon which wooden hill forts were built at various times (📷2) and three reconstructed 13–14th C. craftsmen’s homesteads (📷3). Kernavė became an important feudal town and was for a time the medieval capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was destroyed by retreating defenders when the Teutonic Order attacked in 1390 CE (i.e. “scorched earth” tactics). The viewpoint at Baltas kalnas | White Cliff overlooks the Neris River (📷4); below this steep slope was one of the fording points that the army of the Teutonic Order identified during their march on Kernavė.

🇱🇹 #europe #baltics #lithuania #lietuva 🚀 #travel 🚐 #camperVan #nomad #roadTrip #vanLife 🌍 #unesco

#europe #baltics #lithuania #lietuva #travel #campervan

Curiosity Drive 🚐 @[email protected] · 2026-10-01 · 18:06 UTC

The day began with astronomy and ended with archeology, as we visited two of Lithuania’s World Heritage Sites. Looking somewhat like a pet cemetery, this enclosure near Meškonys is one of the country’s three preserved Struve Geodetic Arc sites (📷1). Kernavės archeologinės vietovės muziejus | Kernavė Archaeological Site Museum is a modern, quality museum with two permanent halls, covering prehistory and the Middle Ages. There’s evidence of almost continuous settlement at Kernavė for the past 10,000 years. A signature local find was a bronze pin with a coiled head that accompanied a 1st millennium BCE cremation burial; you can visit the Brushed Pottery Culture burial site, symbolically marked by boulders near the riverbank. The open-air part of the site includes five mounds upon which wooden hill forts were built at various times (📷2) and three reconstructed 13–14th C. craftsmen’s homesteads (📷3). Kernavė became an important feudal town and was for a time the medieval capital of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It was destroyed by retreating defenders when the Teutonic Order attacked in 1390 CE (i.e. “scorched earth” tactics). The viewpoint at Baltas kalnas | White Cliff overlooks the Neris River (📷4); below this steep slope was one of the fording points that the army of the Teutonic Order identified during their march on Kernavė.

🇱🇹 #europe #baltics #lithuania #lietuva 🚀 #travel 🚐 #camperVan #nomad #roadTrip #vanLife 🌍 #unesco