Just over an hour west of capital Vilnius, this country's second largest city, located where two major rivers meet, features a rectangular, mostly pedestrian Old Town with highlights including the Gothic Kaunas Castle (13th-16th centuries); the Old Ducal Palace (15th century); the Church of Vytautas the Great (also 15th century); the Cathedral Basilica (begun in the 15th century); the City Hall (begun in the mid-16th century and with later Baroque and neoclassical additions; and quite a bit of 19th- and early-20th-century Modernist architecture.There is also a variety of interesting museums (one of the most curious of which is the Žmuidzinavičius Museum, the world's only collection of devil imagery).
Read more in my post The 3 European Capitals of Culture 2022: Kaunas, Novi Sad, and Esch-sur-Alzette.
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