On my last trip they were re-turfing the mound on which Gediminas’s Tower is built. That’s now finished as you can see from this photograph although they are still doing some work on the masonry at the base of the tower.
Later taking a long shot from the bank of the River Neris across the Vytautas the Great bridge (with my new toy, a Sony 50x camera) something looked different. I thought perhaps they were renovating the rest of the castle on the left of the picture.
It was only when I got home and compared the photograph with one I’d taken the previous June from the same vantage point that I realised that they had taken off the roof and roof tiles. They’d also removed the canopy to the right of the funicular.
Are they rebuilding it or making it look more authentic? I guess I’ll have to wait for my next visit to be certain.
I didn’t visit the castle on this trip but it’s always well worth it if only to get good views across the city.
