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Didžioji Street

Coordinates: 54°40′44″N 25°17′16″E / 54.67889°N 25.28778°E / 54.67889; 25.28778
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Didžioji Street
Didžioji Street at dusk
Native nameDidžioji gatvė (Lithuanian)
Former name(s)M. Gorkio[1]
Length600 m (2,000 ft)
LocationVilnius, Lithuania
Postal codeLT-01128
Coordinates54°40′44″N 25°17′16″E / 54.67889°N 25.28778°E / 54.67889; 25.28778

Didžioji Street (literally: the Great Street; Lithuanian: Didžioji gatvė) is a street in the Old Town of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania.[2] It currently connects Pilies Street and Aušros Vartų Street.[1] The street surrounds the Vilnius Town Hall and in the past was visited by many well-known people including Francysk Skaryna, Mikołaj "the Black" Radziwiłł, Konstantinas Sirvydas, Joseph Frank, Christina Gerhardi-Frank, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Napoleon, Sophie de Choiseul-Gouffier, Fyodor Dostoevsky.[3][4]

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  1. ^ a b "Didžioji gatvė". vilnius21.lt. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Pilies and Didžioji streets". visitlithuania.net. Archived from the original on 29 November 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Didžioji g. 31 (Town Hall building)". vilnius-tourism.lt. 1 September 2011. Retrieved 29 November 2019.
  4. ^ "Vilniaus Didžiąja gatve žingsniavo istorijos milžinai". lrytas.lt (in Lithuanian). 26 October 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2019.