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Crosses The Hill of Crosses, Siauliai, Lithuania The tradition of the crosses has ancient pagan origins: the hill was covered with crosses as a sign of claiming national identity in the period of Soviet occupation. ImageSource/ Age Fotostock

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  • The Hill of Crosses, Siauliai, Lithuania

Once it regained its independence, Lithuania revived a whole culture that the Soviet regime had partially extinguished. The big sculpted or decorated wooden crosses which were erected before the war at junctions, on the corner of farms or on the edge of forests resurfaced in 1991 with the independence. Take a visit to the Hill of Crosses, in Siauliai, which is covered with thousands and thousands of crosses of all types.

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