The southernmost of the Baltics, uou´ll find plenty of culture and history in cities like capital Vilnius as well as Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, and Panevėžys. But also natural beauty, beaches, folklore, tasty cuisine, and friendly people. Long live Lietuva!
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Diliff Annually since 1985, the cultural poobahs of the European Union have desginated one or more of the continent's cities (and as of 2022 it's three), as Capitals of Culture, focusing on their cultural offerings, allowing them to organize a series of cultural events (many with a strong pan-European dimension); bring in considerable additional revenue; foster urban renewal; and raise their international profiles and images. Since the first one, Athens, most of the better known cities have…
Read more…I visited Lithuania's capital many many years ago - in the early 1990s, shortly after independence - and found it pleasant but kind of sleepy and dull. In coming across this video recently while researching a return to the Baltics in 2022, I found this intro to the main sights of Vilnius - recognizing several of them - and while watching, it seemed to me that while things have changed here somewhat, it remains a pretty low-key city, and less interesting than neighboring Tallinn and even Riga,…
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