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Catholic Cemetery

Set in a tiny valley with graves rising up on either side, the town’s Catholic Cemetery is wholly unremarkable for those who’ve visited Lithuanian cemeteries before. For those who haven’t, peculiar points of interest include the benches alongside the graves where family members ca [...]

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Vilniaus Mažoji

Jewish Cemetery

Trakai’s tiny and forlorn Jewish Cemetery is incorporated into the northwest corner of the Catholic Cemetery. In a fairly bad state of repair, to find it follow Vilniaus Mažoji south from the bus station and take the concrete steps on the left in the direction of the lake. [...]

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Vilniaus Mažoji

Old Karaite Cemetery

Founded soon after the Karaite arrived in Trakai in the late 14th century and closed in 1932, follow the history of the Karaite community in the town from the earliest crumbling headstones with Hebrew inscriptions in the northern section down to the remaining part of the low stone wall that once su [...]

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Žalioji

Orthodox Cemetery

It wouldn’t be fair to list so many cemeteries without mentioning the final resting places of Trakai’s Orthodox community. Forming a small triangle between the train station and Gedimino, notable things to see here are the bursts of colour created by the Slavic propensity to smother gra [...]

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Gedimino