Rasos Cemetery
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Rasos Cemetery is the oldest and most famous cemetery in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. It is named after the Rasos district where it is located. It is separated into two parts, the old and the new cemeteries, by a narrow Sukilėliai Street. The total area is 10.8 ha. Since 1990 new burials are allowed only to family graves.
Entrance to the cemetery.
Tomb of Jonas Basanavičius
Grave of Jozef Piłsudski's mother. The huge black tombstone is inscribed: "Matka i serce syna" ("A mother and the heart of her son") and bears evocative lines from a poem by Słowacki.
Tomb of Antoni Wiwulski (Antanas Vivulskis) in Rasos Cemetery
Jonas Basanavičius
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Jonas Basanavičius was an activist and proponent of the Lithuanian National Revival. He participated in every major event leading to the independent Lithuanian state and is often given the informal honorific title of the "Patriarch of the Nation" for his contributions.
Basanavičius in 1905
A memorial plaque in Prague on the house where Basanavičius lived
Jonas Basanavičius on 50 litas banknote, released in 2003
A statue in the Old Town of Vilnius, in front of the Lithuanian National Philharmonic