Vilnius City (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Last modified: 2004-03-06 by dov gutterman
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by Jaume Ollé, 2 November 1996

• Overview
• Coat of Arms

See also:

• Lithuania
• Vilnius County
• Vilnius District

Subdivisions:

• Antakalnis
• Fabijoniskes
• Grigiskes
• Justiniskes
• Karoliniskes
• Lazdynai
• Naujamiestis
• Naujininkai
• Naujoji Vilnia
• Paneriai
• Pasilaiciai
• Pilaite
• Rasos
• Senamiestis (Oldtown)
• Seskine
• Snipiskes
• Verkiai
• Vilkpede
• Virsuliskes
• Zirmunai
• Zverynas

Other Sites:

• "Independent Republic of Uzupis"

Overview

Above is the city flag: The Coat of Arms depicts St Christopher and Jesus (as a baby).  The city also uses a triangular pennant, red with a small yellow horizontal stripe in the middle.  On the square in front of the old Town Hall, an impressive number of flag poles all had this pennant.  On other occasions (as shown on local post cards) these are used for various rectangular flags.
One restaurant showing the city flag had a dark-red background with a bright red shield but I'm inclined to believe this was an error in manufacturing.
Festive cream-coloured hanging banners celebrating Mindaugas's coronation, 750 years ago, were to be seen in a few places.  They consisted basically of a dark, crowned capital letter "M" ; the largest I saw, a white one (in Knatterfahne fashion) flew in front of the (Catholic) Cathedral showing some additional text and accompanied by a city pennant.
In Vilnius an