Vilnius is crossed by two rivers Viliya (Neris and Vilnia (Vileyka). And as an important part of the city, its history and present, deserves the attention of one of the bridges across the river Vilija connecting Vilniaus street (in Soviet times the street L. Gyros) with the street Kalvarija (in Soviet times the street Dzerzhinsky).

This bridge, according to written sources from the end of the fourteenth century, was first a wooden and experienced a lot of destruction and rebirth. Over the past century it had several names: Masonry, Great, Vilensky, bridge Chernyakhovsky, Green bridge.

In 1529 the king of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund the Old one was commissioned to build a stone bridge, but this plan was implemented only in 1536. The right to build the bridge and receipt of tolls, Vilna was issued to Raymond Ulrich Hosius.

It was built on massive wooden pillars of stone. Like many medieval bridges, he functioned not only a means of communication between parts of the city, but was a bridge-street and bridge market, having on both sides of the gate. Across the bridge it was possible to move only after paying a significant amount. At the gate was sitting collectors, collecting tolls, often brawled and often went down to fight with carriageways. On the bridge were located stalls, covered with a shingle roof, on the second floor which housed the apartments for inspectors and customs officers.

The river Vilija in the past was quite high during the spring floods were namevalues sandy sediments, ice and rafts fret design of the bridge that led to an almost complete replacement in 1621. After 34 years, during the Russo-Polish war, it was burned down by Polish troops during the retreat.

In 1674, the bridge was rebuilt by Colonel Royal service, engineer John. B. Frediani. But his design was not strong enough and the spring floods had caused him serious damage. Memorable for him was the year 1766, when the construction project was approved of Maurach, at the same time the bridge was painted green, since he is named Green. On the edges of the bridge were installed stone gate.

In the second half of the eighteenth century often terrible fires ravaged the city in 1791, a fire destroyed many buildings in the city and the bridge, which was rebuilt 14 years. Citizens for a long time had to use the ferry for the crossing.

During the war of 1812 Green bridge was burned by the retreating Russian troops before the attack of the French army. Napoleon's army was erected a temporary bridge on pontoons. And only in 1829 was built more solid structure with three stone arches on the fortifications.

More durable metal bridge was built in 1893-1894 the city and district councils. The project belonged to Professor N. A. Belelubskiy. Now it was built single-span with metal trusses, from the previous form is preserved only green, for bridge became a tradition.

In 1944 the war again spared this building, the German retreat blew up the bridge. In the postwar years in 1948-1952, when fast was the recovery of the economy, the bridge was rebuilt Soviet military engineering troops of the Baltic military district. It was given the name of General I. D. Chernyakhovsky. Then the main theme of art, architecture was the heroic pathos of labor and advocacy topics so the bridge was designed in the spirit of the time: single-span, on the bases lined with granite, cast iron railings artistic casting it is decorated with sculptural groups.

On granite bases at the corners of the bridge are figures depicting: students, soldiers, farmers and workers. The length of the bridge is almost 103 m, width — 24 metres height above the water level to 15 m.

The authors of the project: the architect V. Anikina, designer E. Popova, sculptors: B. Pundzius, J. Mikenas, P. Waived, N. Petrulis, B. Buchs, J. Kedins, B. Vyšniauskas.

The original attraction of today are the embankments of the river near the Green bridge in the summer time, they recognized each other in love." Flowers create inscriptions in Lithuanian "I love you", "I love you". The project "Shore of love" was created by artist Gitanita Umbraculum in the spring of 2000.