One of the largest baroque old towns in Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with churches, courtyards and the university, founded in 1579. See the Cathedral and the Gediminas Tower on its hill, the Gate of Dawn with its revered icon, and St Anne's Church.
Užupis is a bohemian district that has declared itself an independent republic, with its own constitution on a wall. The Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights is in the former KGB building.
A red-brick Gothic castle on an island in Lake Galvė, reached by wooden footbridges, once a seat of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania.
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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