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LT-01124 Vilnius, Lithuania
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The most expensive street in the Baltic States – Gediminas Prospect in Vilnius, affirms the real estate agency “Cushman & Wakefield Healey & Baker” (CWHB). In the CWHB advertised list of the most expensive streets, Gediminas Prospect takes 37 place. The closest Baltic street by expense – Viru Street in Tallinn, which takes 44 place, Riga’s street Krasta – 45 place. Leading the most expensive street list remains New York’s Fifth Avenue.
The street starts by the Cathedral and stretches out all the way up to the outskirts of Žvėrynas district. The two kilometer street joins together four squares: Katedros, Savivaldybės , Lukiškių and Nepriklausomybės. It houses the government and Parliament. The prospect has besides stores, cafes and hotels, the National Theater of Drama, decorated with three muses (sculpt. S. Kuzma). Further on the left side in the former KGB building is the Genocide Victims’ Museum. St. Jacob and St. Phillip Church can be seen from Lukiškių Square (Lukiškių a. 10).
In 1863 as the prospect was being constructed, it was first called St. George, later A. Mickiewicz, and then given the names of Stalin, then Lenin. In 1939 it was granted the name Gediminas but was taken away when the Soviet occupation made its way into Lithuania. Gediminas Prospect got back its name in 1989.