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Trakai Vilnius
13 Reviews Our half day tour to Trakai Castle was the individual highlight of our 2 days in Vilnius. The fortified castle built on an island by Grand Duke Vietautas during the 15th century and now fully restored...
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Old town details Vilnius
15 Reviews Walking south from the Town Walls and the Bastion we passed through some old streets with old houses really in bad conditions, which need absolutely some restorations, after which they could become...
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Districts of Vilnius Vilnius
13 Reviews From the observation deck of Vilnius TV tower I could see never ending districts of grey, huge, Soviet-style apartment buildings. I must admit than they looked quite better from the far distance than...
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TV tower Vilnius
10 Reviews The skyline of Vilnius is dominated by TV Tower located in the suburbs, southwest of the centre/downtown. With the height of 326 m (1071 ft) it was the tallest tower in Lithuania and the second...
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Zaliasis bridge Vilnius
10 Reviews Across the river, check out the Stalin-era statues. Legend has it Lithuanians left the statues up as a way to poke fun of the old Soviet regime. The statue photo apparently pays tribute to industry...
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Churches Vilnius
13 Reviews Since I talked about this church just here above, let's show it! ;-) It's really not too off the beaten path, since it lies in Lukiškių aikste, a big green square between the Parliament...
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Statues and fountains Vilnius
16 Reviews Great Polish poet and writer Juliusz Slowacki (1809–49) lived, attended primary school and gymnasium in Vilnius. Then he studied... law at Vilnius university. He left Vilnius in 1828. After anti-tzar...
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Sovietic-era buildings and other relicts Vilnius
11 Reviews Grutas Park (Gruto Parkas) is a large outdoor park which exhibits all sorts of Soviet relicts, such as sculptures, monuments or vehicles. It was opened in 2001 by a private entrepreneur. The park is...
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Famous buildings Vilnius
6 Reviews I took a morning walk from my Crowne Plaza Hotel. Walking eastwards M.K. Ciurlionio gatve (street) I could see this building with two white domes on my picture in a park on the left (north) at...
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Modern buildings Vilnius
3 Reviews I had to zoom when I was walking around the observation deck of Vilnius TV tower. And...in the middle of cement desert of Soviet-style identical grey apartments buildings I saw... look at my picture....
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Europe park Vilnius
4 Reviews Little known fact - The geographical centre of Europe is 15-20 km north of Vilnius. So, no, it's not Germany/Switzerland/Poland as one might have thought. We had hoped to get there, but apparently...
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Cemeteries Vilnius
3 Reviews The Bernadine Cemetery (Bernadinu kapines) was founded in 1810 by Bernadine monks on the site of an old cemetery. It was closed in the 1970's and since then remained almost unchanged. It contains...
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Kernave Vilnius
2 Reviews There was a well-known Lithuanian capital in XIII century, but it's only a little city now. Anyway, it's important to know about past of Lithuania. There is a museum of history, old mounts,...
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Panoramas Vilnius
5 Reviews I always say that the best way to enjoy a town is just going around with no particular goal... in fact here we found this very nice view of the new town, with some older buildings in the front, the...
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Wooden architecture Vilnius
2 Reviews I could see only a few wooden houses in Vilnius but exclusively outside the old town. Well, the compact urban area of the old town was wooden in the old past but was surely damaged by fires. Only...
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It's in the old town of Vilnius, but lots of windy streets so don't get lost. The postcard show the Palace before being demolished around 1793. Right now the Parliament enacted a law to restore the Palace for the millenium celebration of Lithuania's name in 2009.Too help restore.....
The story goes, that a man and his father were in the grave headstone business. When the Russians were in the land they made the father dig up these huge boulders to clear the land for farming, and so he would bring back to his place the stones. He craved out beautiful headstone. But the son started to crave images of Christ, and the Mother Mary, among other great works of art such as crosses, coat of arms, and other church related icon. He (the son) was said to have attendant a school to become a priest but did not completed the full term because of disagreement on doctines...and said he didn't need a piece of paper to do the "will" of God.
This place is amazing. Now I am not a religious person, but when you see all of these crosses, it is beautiful!!! They are all different and there are just so many of them. My Lithuanian friends told me a story that during Soviet times, the Russians came in and bulldozed all of the crosses. The following day the people awoke to all of the crosses returned to their original place.
Nobody can say they didn't visit Trakai because of the cost. The 45-minute train ride from Vilnius to the lake with its island castle costs less than a dollar. The train chugs through the wooded landscape and arrives at Trakai station, leaving you a couple of kilometres to walk to the castle. Lots of sunbathers on the shores of the lake in summer - and the beer is less than half the price you have to pay in the trendy city bars in Vilnius.
The real geographical centre of Europe is just 25km. north of Vilnius.In 1989 it was marked by the French National Institute of Geography.The center of Europe can be found driving on the Moletai highway till road sign to Bernotai.This park is located in a beautiful forest, where a lot of sculptures can be found .
Lithuania is a nature place too, so enjoy its national parks.Zemaitija. - comprises the village and lake of Plateliai. There live Samogitians, a separate ethnic and cultural group of the Lithuanian nation, with a peculiar dialect, traditions and farmhouses. Trakai - the most famous, 25km west of Vilnius, is the site of the old castle of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania. It is situated on an island in Lake Galve, which also hosts water sports, kayaking and sailing.Aukstaitija - is 100km north of Vilnius. It includes many lakes and old forest. Dzukija - is located 75km southwest of Vilnius, with a pleasant wood, several ancient villages and historic castle ruins.
Once all of Lithuania was covered with forests which contained many oak groves which were considered sacred. The Labanoras, Dainava and other woodlands are full of mushrooms and berries each year. In some of the larger forests and remote areas, one can still find wolves, foxes, wild boars, deers, elks, and other large mammals as well as rare birds. Bisons, once common in Lithuania, were driven to extinction.
Well, on our visit, we were with friends of ours, who, again, were natives. They showed us around the hospital and the medical school, which was really cool, especially as a little kid to see severed body parts, organs, and heads floating in jars lining the walls.On a brighter note, we went to visit our guest's relatives in the countryside. Way out in the middle of nowhere, we came to the house of an older woman. We talked for a while, then us boys (my father, brother, the Lithuanian doctor, and I) took a walk through the woods. Our mission was two-fold, to A. find and pick mushrooms for dinner that night, and two take a long walk in the amazing, cool, and rainy forests of Lithuania. We walked and walked, finally reaching a lake, then turned around to come back. Besides finding that we were somewhat lost, we found patch after patch of wild blueberries... soooooooo goooooooood... Our...
Centre of EuropeIn 1989 the French National Geographical Institute named a spot on the road to Moletai, 25km (15mi) north of Vilnius, as the centre of Europe. It's marked by a small, granite sculpture that has been vandalised, but a new sculpture - a pyramid with all the European capitals and their distances from the centre marked on it - is planned for the site. To get there, turn right off the Vilnius-Moletai road at the 'Europas Centras' sign.TrakaiThis old Lithuanian capital is now a small, quiet town in an attractive country area of lakes and islands. Most of the town stands on a peninsula dotted with old wooden cottages, many of them built by the Karaites - a Judaist sect originating in Baghdad that adheres to the Law of Moses. The Karaites were brought to Trakai by Vytautas the Great around 1400 AD to serve as bodyguards, and about 150 of them still live here. Their numbers are...
I believe that most of the tourists in Lithuania would typically miss one of the most beautiful places in Auks^taitija (one of the ethnic regions in Lithuania). This place is Auks^taitija National Park-Lithuania's first national park, which was designated in 1974 and covers the area of 40570 hectares in regions of Ignalina, Utena and Svencionys. There is not only the beautiful nature, but also quite a lot of other cultural monuments. You can find rare plants there that are listed in the Red Data Book of Lithuania, as well as a variety of birds. This could be a really exciting experience.
Radisson SAS Astorija Hotel Vilnius Vilnius
8 Reviews and 104 Opinions The Radisson Sas is one very nice hotel here in the old city. Good location where you can walk to...
Park Inn Kaunas Kaunas
5 Reviews and 115 Opinions New modern hotel. Now name Reval hotel Neris. I work in Reval hotel so i know how everything is...
Promenada Klaipeda
4 Reviews and 8 Opinions I didn't stay in the hotel myself, but I know from my guests, that there is a good breakfast and...
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Q: How would somebody describe a road Trakai – Alytaus – Lazdiai – Augustow (Poland). If do it, than via Dirvoniskes or not? I am...
A: hi It depends what you want. If you are just driving then it's ordinary road, going mostly through forest, fields and small villages. Road quality is quite o.k. If you...
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