About 12 km north of the city Šiauliai in northern Lithuania you’ll find a unique pilgrimage site; The Hill of crosses. Under the anti-religious Soviet-rule families left crosses on the in remembrance of the dead.
During the 1960s and 70s the hill was bulldozed, and the crosses burned several times – but that didn’t stop the locals from bringing new crosses. Today it’s forbidden to remove crosses from the hill.
Today the hill is covered in more than 100 000 crosses, crucifixes, rosaries and other religious icons. In 1993 Pope John Paul II visited the hill of crosses and declared it a place of hope, peace, love and sacrifice.