One of the most original examples of late Gothic secular architecture in Lithuania, Perkūno Namas was built by Hanseatic merchants at the end of the 15th century. During its time it’s served as a Jesuit chapel, a warehouse, a school, a repository for Soviet knickknacks and is now back in the hands of the Jesuits who use it for school art classes. It was also famously visited by the Romantic poet Adam Mickiewicz (Lith. Adomas Mickevičius, 1798-1855). The building is named after the Lithuanian pagan God of Thunder, Perkūnas, after a statue of the deity was allegedly found hidden in the walls of the building during its reconstruction in the 19th century.