{"id":1200,"date":"2012-06-13T14:40:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T12:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2014-09-10T21:26:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T19:26:20","slug":"wallfahrt-auf-litauisch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/2012\/06\/13\/wallfahrt-auf-litauisch\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Pilgrimage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>On my way to the coast, I stopped in <span xml:lang=\"lt\" lang=\"lt\">&#352;iauliai<\/span> which is close to a very unique sight: the Hill of Crosses.<!--more--><\/p>\n  <div class=\"hoch_re wp-caption alignright single-image\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/lietuva\/index_08.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img192x288\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/lietuva\/thumb\/08.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"288\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Hill of Crosses\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n\n<p>There,&nbsp;approximately 15,000&nbsp;crosses&nbsp;(!) have been erected (by locals and foreigners alike). During the Sowjet period, there was even almost a war between the regime (who tore the crosses down, and burnt them) and the locals (who set new crosses up).<\/p>\n<p>Today, it is a very impressive sight indeed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">\n  <div class=\"breit wp-caption\">\n  <div class=\"breit\">\n  <div class=\"breit_li\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/lietuva\/index_09.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/lietuva\/thumb\/09.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Hill of Crosses\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"breit_re\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/lietuva\/index_10.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/lietuva\/thumb\/10.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Hill of Crosses\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   Hill of Crosses\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"clear\">\n\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>After that, I also had a short stroll in &#352;iauliai itself.<\/p>\n<p>During the train trip, I had the possibility to see some typical countryside houses: made of wood, rather old, and quite probably extremely hard to heat in winter.<\/p>\n<div class=\"center\">\n  <div class=\"breit wp-caption\">\n  <div class=\"breit_li\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/lietuva\/index_11.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/lietuva\/thumb\/11.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Church in Siauliau\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   Church in <span xml:lang=\"lt\" lang=\"lt\">Siauliau<\/span>\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"breit_re\">\n  <p class=\"image\">\n   <a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/lietuva\/index_12.htm\" class=\"lightbox-link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img288x192\" src=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/regions\/europe\/lietuva\/thumb\/12.jpg\" width=\"288\" height=\"192\" alt=\"[Picture]\" title=\"Typical lithuanian house in the countryside\" \/><\/a>\n  <\/p>\n  <p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n   Typical lithuanian house in the countryside\n  <\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"clear\">\n\n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n  <div class=\"update\">\n  <h2>\n   Update\n  <\/h2>\nMy travel guide seems to be hopefully out-of-date. Newer estimates suggest that there are up to 100,000&nbsp;(!)&nbsp;crosses at the Hill of Crosses.  <\/div>\n\n<p>  <div class=\"notice\">\nThis blog entry is an abridged version of the original entry in <a href=\"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\">German<\/a>.  <\/div>\n<br \/>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to the coast, I stopped in &#352;iauliai which is close to a very unique sight: the Hill of Crosses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[73,139,77],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-diary","tag-baltics","tag-europe","tag-land-und-leute","trips-baltics2012","country-lt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernies-journeys.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}