Bernardine Garden

It is located on the left bank of the Vilnia River between the Gediminas Tower and Bernardine Monastery and covers over 9 hectares (22 acres).

After the advent of Christianity, the oaks were cut down and in 1469, when the King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Casimir IV Jagiellon invited the Bernardine monks to Vilnius, the park was created.

In 1864 the Russian tsarist government closed the Bernardine garden, but about twenty years later the townspeople recovered it.

The main fountain, which is situated in the centre of Bernardine garden, works all the day at weekends in a warm period of the year.

Also there is a rockery, a carousel, a playing ground for children, a giant chessboard, and checkers and chess tables.