A red-brick Gothic castle on an island in Lake Galvė, reached by wooden footbridges, once a seat of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania. It has a history museum. Hire a boat or a paddleboard on the lake.
Trakai is home to the Karaim people, a small Turkic community; try their pasties (kibinai) in the village. It's 30 minutes by bus or train from Vilnius.
One of the largest baroque old towns in Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with churches, courtyards and the university, founded in 1579.
Lithuania's second city, its capital between the wars, has a medieval old town with a castle and the Town Hall, called the 'White Swan', and a modern…
A small hill covered in more than 100,000 crosses, crucifixes, rosaries and statues of every size, from tiny pendants to crosses taller than a person.
A narrow 98 km sand spit between the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon, shared with Russia, with huge shifting sand dunes, pine forests and fishing …
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