Heaven Hell & the Snake Walking Tour by PhD Historian in Vilnius

This is the meeting point and the tour's opening scene — the site of the pagan household snake, once fed milk by hand as a sacred guardian, and the reputed lair of the Basilisk of Vilnius, a monster whose gaze alone could kill.

The miracle icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the wall of roughly 8,000 silver votive offerings — hearts, legs, eyes — left by pilgrims seeking a cure, viewed from the street and the chapel entrance.

The resting place of the three martyrs of 1347 — the holy dead whose bodies, tradition holds, never decayed.

The gate and former Uniate church, created after Vilnius's Orthodox congregations entered union with Rome in 1596 while keeping their Eastern rite.

The first Baroque church built in Vilnius, and the story of the family that turned the nation Protestant and back again within two generations.

The building where a young French officer, Henri Beyle — later famous as the novelist Stendhal — took shelter during Napoleon's frozen 1812 retreat. Thousands in army's mass grave, found in 2001.

Two rival churches facing off across one narrow lane, and the mob confrontation that settled the dispute between them.

The saint whose body reportedly never decayed, the mysterious three-handed painting, the pagan temple believed to lie beneath the cathedral, and the eternal flame marking the last pagan state in Europe. The walk ends here.