title: Daukanto Square
text: # Daukanto Square
  
  Daukantas Square in Vilnius, Lithuania is located in the Old Town, in front of the Presidential Palace. Its name commemorates a progenitor of the 19th-century Lithuanian national revival, Simonas Daukantas. In the late 19th century it had a monument of Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov-Vilensky.
  
  The square hosts state ceremonies. It has also been the site of demonstrations and rallies.
  
  