Vilnius Tour
Vilnius city tour is a romantic 3-hour acquaintance with Vilnius Old Town where you can feel the atmosphere of the city’ s history of the 16th -19th centuries while walking along its narrow winding streets or visiting the most exciting architectural and historic monuments: Vilnius Cathedral, erected on the historic and legendary site where pagan gods were worshipped and where Vilnius was founded as far back as the 13th century, a nearby Gediminas Castle on the hill rising above the city centre, the gem of the Lithuanian Gothics – the elegant St.Anne’s Church, the Vilnius University – the famous centre of science since its very foundation in 1579, the Gate of Dawn with a miraculous icon of Virgin Mary, to mention a few.
Trakai Tour
A pleasant 4-hour tour to Trakai, 28 km from Vilnius- the ancient capital of the Lithuanian Grand Principality, famous for its red-brick Gothic castle of the early 15th century, built as a mighty fortress against the Crusaders and later serving as the residence of Lithuanian Dukes. Standing on an island in lake Galve, the Castle now houses an interesting museum relating a history of Lithuania, very famous in the times of the Grand Duke Vytautas when the country borders were stretching from the Baltic till the Black Sea. Enjoy a small town of Trakai situated mostly on a two km long peninsula with attractive old wooden houses, mostly built by Karaites, brought by Duke Vytautas from the Crimea.
Kaunas Tour
Kaunas, Lithuania’s second city, located 100 km from Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania between the two World Wars when Vilnius was invaded by Poland.
Kaunas city tour shows the the main attractions of the Old Town: Kaunas Castle, at the confluence of the two largest Lithuanian rivers – the Nemunas and the Neris where the town was founded, the Town Hall Square with the 15th-16th century merchants’ houses around and the 17th cent. white baroque Town Hall dominating in the centre of it, a nearby majestic Kaunas cathedral- the main sanctuary of Kaunas, the Gothic Vytautas Church built in 1400 on the Nemunas riverbank. A further drive will take you to the central part of Kaunas with a linden-tree lined Freedom Avenue, the most popular street of the city and to Unity Square with Eternal Flame and monuments to Lithuania’ s independence.
Chiurlionis Art Museum housing the paintings of the outstanding Lithuanian composer and artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Chiurlionis, a philosopher-in -art who painted and composed music at the turn of the 19th-20th cent.
Devils’ Museum with a large collection of devils’ art, which was started by the painter Zmuidzinavicius as a hobby from the gifts- devils’ statuettes, the people gave him. In the Lithuanian folklore the devil is a ridiculous and awkward figure, very popular, so the museum’ s devils’ collection is constantly growing and always welcome.