Easy hikes and walks in Vokės Senslėnio Šlaitų Geomorfologinis Draustinis

It looks different every season...

The old Vilnius-Kaunas tract. That's all that's left of it.

Bukcii chapel pillar, in a very unexpected place...

The baroque chapel is believed to have been built by Jesuit monks. 17th century the already mentioned wooden chapel. 19th century the reconstruction of the chapel was generously supported by the famous patron of the time, Duchess Gabrielė Oginskienė. The chapel has not been used as a cult building since 1944. During the Soviet era, the chapel was abandoned, there was a book warehouse here. After 1991 Services were held again in the chapel during Vespers.

In 1794, units of the tsarist army fleeing from the rebels retreated along this road, and in 1812 - the remnants of Napoleon Bonaparte's Great Army. Then the French, persecuted by the Russians, realized that they would not be able to overcome the steep and icy slopes of Paneri, and left a lot of ammunition, an artillery cannon and even an army treasury at their foot. in memory of the victims of the uprising, although the battle itself took place a little further away. The road to Kaunas has apparently existed in this place since ancient times, but no information about it has survived. 19th century the poet and local explorer Vladislovas Sirokomlė (1823 - 1862) wrote that the heavily excavated Mount Paneris was once so steep that it was difficult to stop horses going down the old road. One of the main Lithuanian roads of that time was characterized not only by its steepness, but also by its narrowness. Two carts could hardly pass through it, so, according to Sirokomlė, those going up the mountain shot in the air to warn those going down it.

The bridge was built in 1986. The length is about 170 m and the width is 35.32 m. Due to the poor condition of the bridge in 2011 its reconstruction work began in June.

Antanas Gelgaudas - 1831 leader of the rebellion in Lithuania. in 1830 led the units of the Polish rebels, was appointed the commander-in-chief of the rebels. in 1831 formed the Provisional Polish Central Government in Lithuania. The army led by him attacked the Russian army and took Kaunas, but lost the battles at Paneri, Šiauliai and was forced to retreat. On the Prussian border, A. Gelgaudas was killed by a disillusioned rebel officer. 2001 June 6 in memory of the dead rebels, a monument was built near the chapel of the Paneriai cemetery in memory of the dead rebels.

1831 June 19 in the battles of Panerii, the rebels of General Antanas Gelgaudas lost to the units of the Russian Empire army that managed to regroup. The central positions of the Russian army, four battalions under the command of D. Osten-Saken, were located near the surviving chapel of the cemetery. The units of Antanas Gelgaudas (about 12,600 rebels), slowly marching towards Vilnius, were stopped by the army sent by the governor-general in the Battle of Paneri. After an unsuccessful attempt to capture Vilnius, the rebels retreated to Raseinii, later tried to capture Šiauliai, but also unsuccessfully, then retreated to Kuršėni, from where they split into several parts and there was no longer any substantial resistance.