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May 19, 2024

　　Established on the site of the main cemetery of the old Prussian city of Memel (Klaipėda in a former incarnation), in 1977, this L-shaped park became an outdoor sculpture gallery. It's dotted with more than 100 sculptures by 67 Lithuanian artists, erected between 1977 and 1991. Also here is the WWII memorial to the Soviet fallen.

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