PHOTO: Lithuania celebrates national holiday and song festival

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Lithuania has greatly restored its statehood, but has always been able to be reborn and elevate The Lithuanian President, Dalia Grisuiskaite, stressed on Friday the day of the holiday. State of Lithuania, which commemorates the 765th anniversary of the reign of King Mindaugas, on the occasion of the centenary of the restoration of the Lithuanian state.

At noon on Thursday, at Simona Daukantas Square in Vilnius, the national flag was solemnly affixed and the Lithuanian historical flag with national coat of arms symbolizes Vitis – the white rider on a red background. The unity of the god of the Lithuanian Armed Forces organized three canons for King Mindaugas, a Lithuanian state and a Lithuanian nation. Celebrating Lithuania's holidays, Portugal and Spain fired on the region as air policemen of the Baltic states.

"July 6th of this year marks the centenary of the restoration of our State. The next will be only a hundred years later. We are very lucky that we are the participants and witnesses of this anniversary, "said the president, dressed in national costumes in honor of the National Day and the Centennial of the Song Festival

" this day reminds us that we have lived for almost eight decades. Mindaugh brought United Lithuania to Europe, "she said," so we proudly reiterate – a hundred years ago we renewed our country and no one will let it out. "

was agreed with the name of King Mindaugas to link the beginning of the Lithuanian state to the 13th century.On 6 July 1253, with the blessing of Pope Inocenta IV of Rome, he was crowned and became the first and only king of the history of Lithuania Mindaugas formed political, economic and cultural relations with Europe at that time, and historians consider him as a person who, by his mentality, his spirit and his political strategy , is past its age

At 4 pm, the Song Festival begins at Cathedral Square, which leads to the Vingga Park Stage, where the 17th anniversary of the song celebration will begin. 12,000 singers from Lithuania and abroad in concert

At 21:00 Lithuanian time, Lithuanians from all over the country sing around their national anthem – Vinca Kudirk in 1898 writes "National Song". Such a tradition was established in 2009, when the country celebrated the millennium of Lithuania.
The holiday program has not only ceremonies but also a wide range of events that allow one to remember the origins of Lithuania. 19659006] The second part of the new Lithuanian palace Dižņunigaiti Valdnieks was opened to the general public today for 15 years. All visitors have officially discovered the first part of the castle that has attracted many visitors in recent years, but this year it was announced in late June that the restoration of the castle was announced in late June.

In Vilnius, in the meadows near the white bridge on the Neris, people are invited to celebrate the feast in the vast picnic of the centenary in the middle of the night, but an hour before the sky of Vilnius. With the freedom of the wind, a "centenary balloon" will be raised in the air with the Lithuanian national symbols that will release a huge Lithuanian heron one hundred meters long and four and a half meters wide.In 1965, in the hills of 39 Ķernava, in the place of the former Lithuanian capital. The International Festival of Experimental Archeology "Living Archeology Days" brings together master craftsmen, medieval wrestling clubs and old musical groups from Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Belarus, Russia, Germany, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and Norway.