Sculpture Freedom Road in Vilnius (Freedom Road)
Lithuania, Vilnius

The sculpture Freedom Road was inaugurated in Vilnius on August 23, 2010, on the day of the 21st anniversary of the Baltic Way peace rally on August 23, 1989. On this day, residents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia lined up a live chain of almost 600 kilometers, connecting Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius, thus demonstrating unity in the pursuit of independence and sovereignty of the Baltic countries. In 2009, UNESCO recognized this action as a phenomenon of non-violent resistance and included documentary materials about it in the international registry of the Memory of the World program. The author of the idea of creating a monument and a project of sculpture Freedom Road is the famous Lithuanian sculptor Tadas Gutauskas. The construction is a brick wall 60 meters long with carved silhouettes of people holding hands, 20,000 bricks of yellow, green and red colors (the colors of the flag of Lithuania) were used to create it. The project has gained national recognition; significant donations have been made to its implementation by public organizations, foundations, private companies, famous personalities and ordinary citizens of Lithuania. Money for the creation of the sculpture was collected through the sale of registered bricks - everyone could buy a brick with his own name and surname engraved on it for 25 litas (a family brick was 2 times more expensive), thus becoming a "part" of the Freedom Road. There are also bricks in the wall with the names of the inhabitants of the United Arab Emirates, Canada, Norway, the USA and many other countries. The sculpture Freedom Road, according to its author Tadas Gutauskas, is a memory of the struggle for independence and freedom, a symbol of the unity of the nation, a call to future generations not to forget the ideas of unity that helped Lithuania gain freedom.

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