House of Perkūnas
Kaunas, Lithuania
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
The House of Perkūnas is a brick Gothic secular building in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania, built by Hanseatic merchants who used it as their office from 1440 to 1532. Later sold to the Jesuits, it was rebuilt in the 19th century after ruin and renamed when a figure interpreted as an idol of the Baltic thunder god Perkūnas was found in one of its walls. Today it houses a museum of Adam Mickiewicz.
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- Type
- kamienica
- Materials
- brick
- Place
- Kaunas, Lithuania
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