Bolt Ride Mindaugas Bridge (Lithuanian: Mindaugo tiltas) - Bernardine Garden - Vilnius, Lithuania

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Bernardinai Garden, formerly called Sereikiškės Park by Vilnius residents, is located in the very center of Vilnius between the Gediminas Castle Tower, Vilnelė and Bernardinai Monastery.
A special space of the park is a botanical exposition dedicated to the 18th century. one of the largest gardens in Eastern Europe - the Vilnius University Botanical Garden.
Next to the entrance to the park from St. On the side of Brunono Street grows the oldest oak in Vilnius, which is as old as 400 years, and on the left bank of Vilnius, near the Folk Culture Center, Alma is known to Vilnius residents as the Minute spring, to which stairs with handrails lead.
Short story
The history of the Bernardine Garden dates back to the 15th century, when Bernardine monks invited to Vilnius built St. St. Anne, St. The complex of Franciscan and Bernardine churches and a monastery was cultivated, and the swampy and springed area was cultivated, and gardens with ponds, canals and fertile gardens were planted. Later, an apiary hummed and a conservatory stood here. In the rest of the Vilnius bend, there was a courtyard of the castle farm, later called the suburb of Sereikiškės, with dams, mills and workshops.
In 2013, after more than a year of reconstruction of the park, the authentic 19th century environment was restored here, repeating the 19th century. pab. park installation style: after creating a system of open and closed spaces with green meadows, installing a central square created by the artist Alexander Strauss, a rose garden and a 20th century building. rock garden with a pond. There is a playing and shining fountain in the main rose garden of the park, the range of plants in the botanical garden was supplemented by an exposition of aquatic plants in the basin, and it is planned to renovate the rock garden here. During this period, the park was restored to its old name, the Bernardine Garden.
The Vilnius bed has changed several times in this territory. The old one flowed in the place of today's central park alley and gate, on the current Barbora Radvilaitės street, thus dividing the current park territory in half. Only in the second half of the 19th century was the old Vilnius riverbed finally filled.