Užupis (Yiddish: זארעטשע#, Belarusian: Зарэчча, Russian: Заречье, Polish: Zarzecze) is a neighborhood in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, largely located in Vilnius’s old town. Užupis means “beyond the river” or “the other side of the river”.
The district has been popular with artists for some time,and has been compared to Montmartre in Paris and to Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen, due to its bohemian and laissez-faire atmosphere.
On April 1, 1997, the district declared itself an independent republic (the Republic of Užupis), with its own constitution. (Wikipedia)

Jerusalem of the North. Jewish street, with a statue of Elijah ben Solomon Zalman (ר’ אליהו בן שלמה זלמן), Vilna Gaon (Yiddish: דער װילנער גאון Der Vilner Gaon, Polish: Gaon z Wilna, Lithuanian: Vilniaus Gaonas), a Lithuanian Talmudist (1720 – 1797), halakhist, kabbalist, and leader of misnagdic (non-hasidic) Jewry. And the only currently functioning synagogue, one of the two in Lithuania (the second being in Kaunas), as well as a sculpture of Zemach Shabad, doctor and politician and a few graffitis of missing ordinary inhabitants of the city.

Classic Vilnius, which I certainly somehow try to “de-modernize” (cf. the first picture). The Gate of Dawn (La porte de l’Aurore / Aušros vartai / Ostra Brama) with its 17th century miraculous painting. It is the only Mary I know of who does not have the baby Jesus in her arms. Vilnius was called “Jerusalem of the North” because of its thriving Jewish community. Yet today, even in quasi absence of Jewish community, the concentration of places seen as holy by Roman Catholics, Orthodox Christians and the Jews makes it still incredibly dense.
Finally, a statue of Adam Mickiewicz [Gediminas Jokūbonis, 1984] and the St Anne Church next to the Vilnia river (Wilejka).