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Neries Krantine 16, Kaunas, 48402, Lithuania
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Church interior
One monument
...and sculptures........
Interesting architecture.......
I might want to visit relatives of my mother who came from a small village south of Kaunas. Her name was Agneska Kazakievicius, born around 1887, probably in a village called Gaulakrecius. Is there such a village and are any of her relatives still living there? She came to the USA about 1907.
There's no such village now. It could be one grange or so, if you had a map of that time (would be a Suwalki Governorate of the Russian Empire) you could locate the village, if it did exist. Another case may be if it was one of the 45 settlements in the place now called Kaunas Reservoir, i.e. ~45 settlements has gone in 1959 when Kaunas Reservoir was created by damming the Nemunas river. Several villages were moved to other locations, but there is no Gaulakrecius among them.
Doom on you :) lol we do have some Egyptian items here. So if you are interested you'll find this small collection (most of it belonged to professional Lithuanian Egyptologist of XXth century M.R.Arcimaviciene) in the M.Zilinskas art gallery on the first floor (next to Chinese, Japanese ceramics exposition). Nepriklausomybës a. 12, mon - friday from 11am to 5pm. (next to S.Archangel church aka "Soboras", where you see our famous naked boy sculpture)
I can wander in the old town of Kaunas and every time I can find there something new.. Like these modern art galleries in some old houses dating back to XIX century. I like to come in there and capture a good doze of creative ideas for my imagination. And if you wanna buy something, you can find there some really cool stuff and buy exclusive art works..
Before I went to Kaunas:
1. I read some pages on Kaunas on Virtual Tourist here
2. I used the tool "Find Hotel Deals" on the above page to check the prices of accommodations (hmm... I couldn't book any as I wasn't sure my dates).
3. I read latest discussions on Kaunas in VT Travel Forum here.
4. I bought Polish version of Rough Guide travel book to Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Kaliningrad district and a map of these countries.
In Kaunas I bought a leaflet "Kaunas Klaipeda, Essential city guides" from a series "in your pocket". It was very useful city guide to both Kaunas and Klaipeda, available at each kiosk (8.00 Lt); simply, my recommendation. The guide contained general info on Lithuania and:
- arriving in Kaunas
- where to saty
- where to eat
- by night
- what to see
- culture & events
- getting around
- shopping
- directory
- two maps of Kaunas centre/downtown (1:15.000 and 1:25.000) - enough for walking tours around but not enough for driving visitors.
On the web I found tons of info on the following portals:
Kaunas in your pocket - the best internet service on Kaunas in my opinion;
Kaunas - official webpage of Lithuanian government available in English, French, German, Lithuanian, Polish and Russian;
Tourist Information Centre of Kaunas Region - in English, German and Lithuanian;
Kaunas City Municipality - English version is relatively poor.
Enjoy :-)
It WAS local custom in Kaunas, Lithuania and other Soviet republics to put writings in Russian language everywhere. Just one example, on my picture: info on how to use the phone was put exclusively in Russian on a public phone displayed in Communications History Museum now.
Well, in my country, Poland, there were no writings in Russian that time (before 1990). I think that in contrast to Lithuania the Polish nature of Poland (including the language) was never in danger.
Contemporary window was ususally a casement window in Kaunas.
As I noticed, windows of the old Kaunas were usually divided by muntins for at least 9 parts with 9 panes. This one, on my picture, had 24 panes and was located on the 2nd floor of Medziotoju Uzeiga, upclass hunters' restaurant at Town Hall Square # 10.
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