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 modernist 1930s new town, recognised by UNESCO. The Devil's Museum has more than 3,000 devil figures.
The Ninth Fort, outside the city, was used by the Nazis to murder about 50,000 people, mostly Jews; it's now a memorial and museum. Kaunas was European Capital of Culture in 2022.
A red-brick Gothic castle on an island in Lake Galvė, reached by wooden footbridges, once a seat of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania.
One of the largest baroque old towns in Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, with churches, courtyards and the university, founded in 1579.
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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