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About Hill of Crosses

A hillfort mound north of Šiauliai carries more than a hundred thousand crosses, planted by hand since the 1830s. Oak, one to five metres, chip-carved by self-taught itinerant makers, bolted to wrought iron, hung with rosaries. Soviet bulldozers levelled it three times; each time the crosses came back within weeks.

Nothing here was designed. The look is accretion — leaning silhouettes overlapping in depth, linseed-darkened brown going silver in the rain, iron going orange. Density carries the whole image, not colour. Build with tight spacing, layered edges and almost no chroma.

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Origin
Jurgaičiai / Domantai mound, 12km north of Šiauliai, Lithuania
Era
first crosses after the 1831 uprising; bulldozed 1961, 1973, 1975 and rebuilt each time; UNESCO proclamation 2001
Key figures
anonymous itinerant kryždirbiai · Vladas Tumasonis
Movements
Lithuanian cross crafting (kryždirbystė) · folk sculpture and blacksmithing · Soviet-era religious resistance

Hill of Crosses design spec

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Typography

AlegreyaHeadings
Courier PrimeMono
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