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One of the first photos of the city of Vilna / Vilnius. Photograph shows the old city on the southern part. Approximate location pictures - Bastion of Vilnius City Wall. In the days of the Russian Empire was a bastion ruins "buried in the ground" .Pod bastion - a large tunnel circular shape with branches. One legend has it that there lived a monster that one man killed his gaze. And somehow reappeared cunning, who grabbed a mirror and hid behind it, and the monster looked at myself from the fear immediately gave up the ghost. And here's another tale. There there was once a source, and after the massacre, uchinonnoy Crusaders, he turned red as the deaths of many of Vilnius's defenders. Unfortunately, no monsters, no spring you just will not find, but you can see the dungeon Bastion and a good exhibition of medieval weapons. Yes, and the impressive Bastion - Twenty years ago, during the Soviet era, it managed to recover from the ruins.