It was depicted on the former national currency, the litas, and is mentioned in numerous Lithuanian patriotic poems and folk songs.

[2] A reconstruction of the Royal Palace of Lithuania was completed in 2009, and is located near the base of the hill upon which the tower stands.

Long ago, the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas was hunting in the woods of Šventaragis Valley.

Now Gediminas had a dream that, up on top of the same hill where he had been hunting that day, stood a great wolf made of iron, and it was howling as loudly as if it were a hundred wolves.

Gediminas, obeying the will of the gods, began to build the future capital city, and a castle in the centre of it.