Although Kaunas Old Town has the visitor plenty to offer when enjoying a city trip. Interwar architecture, unique museums and parks, statues, and so on. Take a trolleybus, use one of the two funiculars or stroll and discover some hidden gems in Kaunas Guide. Devil...
Continue reading » January 11, 2017 Henk108 Kaunas, Kaunas and environs, Lithuania 2 Comments The oldest extant construction in Kaunas Old Town is the castle tower and wall fragments on the banks of the Neris River. Built in the latter half of the 14th century, the enclosure type castle lost strategic importance after the Battle of Grunwald. Vytautas the...
Continue reading » April 8, 2016 Henk108 Kaunas, Kaunas and environs, Lithuania 1 Comment Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city sits at the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris, the two largest rivers of the country. The name "Kaunas" was originally used as a person's first name, later as a surname. The city was strongly influenced by its status as the...
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