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President Gitanas Nausėda says that the coronation of Mindaugas on July 6, 1253 was a fateful time for Lithuania to move west.
“Along with King Mindaugas, when we first enter the West, we are still moving down the chosen path. As we grow and mature in a family of European countries, we remain open to those who love freedom and abide by the law,” he said. President.
Concerts and festive exhibitions will be held in many Lithuanian municipalities, and Lithuanian communities abroad will choose to sing the hymn.
At noon at the Presidential Palace, Simonas Daukantas Square in Vilnius, the Lithuanian Armed Forces Honorary Guard Company will have a memorable performance playing the national Eurovision winner, The Roop’s On Fire, and the air police fighters from NATO will greet the participants.
On Monday, the capital’s Palace of Rulers will present visitors with a bronze bust of the Grand Duke of Lithuania and King Sigismund Augustus of Poland, created in Ukraine.
The commemoration in Kaunas will take place at noon in the garden of the Vytautas the Great War Museum, and at night the performance of the opera “Traviata” of the Kaunas Giuseppe Verdi State Musical Theater will take place near Kaunas Castle.
An exceptional event will take place in Paris, where a solemn ceremony of lighting the Eternal Fire will be held at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the Arc de Triomphe in honor of Lithuania.
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