Viršuliškės Park

All that is beautiful and interesting is concentrated in the city centre – this is a common perception, not only among visitors, but also among Vilnius residents themselves. The grey-walled districts on the outskirts, with their gloomy architecture, seem to have little hope of changing this mindset. However, the writer and sculptor Mykolas Sauka has attempted to breathe artistic life into the unremarkable Viršuliškės Park. Here, sculptures of city dwellers or ‘concrete Vilniečiai’ took up residence in Viršuliškės Park, named after the small forest that sits on a small hill. A kindergarten stands at the side of the park, and residential blocks are a little further away. Sauka deliberately chose this place to house his sculptures – he consciously chose not to put them in a white-walled gallery where only the arty bohemians gather, but wanted to set his work free and exhibit it in an open space.