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The heart of the Capital of Lithuania is the beautiful Vilnius Old Town included into UNESCO World heritage list. It is the oldest part of Vilnius on the left shore of river Neris. Nowadays Vilnius Old Town is not only a heritage of old Lithuanian civilization, but also an exclusive bystander of past cultural lifestyle traditions. The Old town began formatting in medieval period already and nowadays it is one of the largest townscape complex in Eastern Europe. It seizes territory of 3,59 sq. km including 70 streets and 1487 buildings. The Vilnius Old Town includes many churches, museums, living houses and architectural monuments. A very interesting fact is that churches in the Old Town are of many various religions. Scattered really close to each other churches of Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy and Judaism do not surprise local inhabitants.