The Hill of Crosses in Lithuania is an incredible place where over 100,000 crosses cover an old fort hill. This site is 7.5 miles from a nearby town called Siauliai.

The Hill of Crosses is steeped in legends of ghosts, miracles and heroic acts of defiance. Around 11km outside the city of Siauliai in northern Lithuania ... place it on a nearby hill; if he ...

The exact origins of Lithuania's Kryžių Kalnas, or the Hill of Crosses, remain a mystery. Just outside the northern city of Šiauliai, thousands of metal and wooden crosses—placed here for ...

The surreal dreamscape of crucifixes is just one of Lithuania ... hill in the Lithuanian countryside called the Hill of Crosses is a reminder of that history. Truly one of the more surreal things ...

Putting up crosses was also banned by Tsarist Russian authorities after a failed uprising in 1863. But such problems did not stop the rise of the famed Hill of Crosses in northern Lithuania ...

Lithuania is celebrating 100 years of independence. Sort of. While it shook off more than a century of Tsarist rule on February 16, 1918, it was reoccupied at the end of the Second World War and ...

The tale of the Hill of Crosses dates back to early stages of the 19th century. Located just outside Lithuania’s fourth largest city Šiauliai, the mound attracts thousands of pilgrims every ...

Many people have left crosses to commemorate relatives, while others have paid tribute to the victims of disasters. SEE MORE SHOTS OF LITHUANIA’S HILL OF CROSSES ...