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Complete travel guide to Lithuania. Handpicked places including waterfalls, mountain roads, thermal springs, UNESCO sites, scenic drives and hidden gems. All with GPS coordinates.
Vilnius' iconic white pedestrian bridge spans the Neris River, connecting the old town to the new. In summer the riverbank transforms into an informal beach with volleyball, street food and the city's best sunset views.
GPS: 54.6932, 25.2732
An old water mill from the 1700s right inside Vilnius — water still cascades over the rocks while you eat Lithuanian food on the terrace overlooking the falls. The Vilnia river valley opens up like a green amphitheatre.
GPS: 54.6836, 25.3567
Lithuania's tallest exposed cliff face — 65 metres of sandstone and clay carved by the Ice Ages. The Vilnia river valley opens below like a miniature Grand Canyon, and you stand on the edge with the whole city behind you.
GPS: 54.6920, 25.3528
Soviet engineering from 1959 — the mighty dam across the Nemunas created the Kaunas Reservoir, Lithuania's largest artificial lake. 30 metres high, 370 metres wide, and the force of the drop still drives the turbines.
GPS: 54.8742, 23.9989
Giant dunes meet the Baltic Sea — the Parnidis dune rises 52 metres above the sea, and below awaits white sand and ice-cold Baltic water. Nida is Lithuania's pearl, and the beach is the reason.
GPS: 55.2949, 20.9906
Swim with a view of a medieval castle on an island — Lake Galvė is Lithuania's most picturesque swimming spot. 21 small islands, golden sand and Trakai Castle as backdrop. It's like a fairytale, just with swimwear.
GPS: 54.6716, 24.9342
126 lakes, ancient pine forests and Ladakalnis Hill with the most breathtaking view in all of Lithuania. From the top you see six lakes at once — blue water, green forests, and a silence you didn't know existed.
GPS: 55.3290, 26.1023
Lake Plateliai glistens between hills and forests — and beneath the surface hides a secret Soviet missile base from the Cold War. Žemaitija is western Lithuania's green heart.
GPS: 56.0428, 21.8531
A 98 km thin strip of sand between the lagoon and the Baltic Sea — wandering dunes, dwarf pines and a silence broken only by the waves. Europe's Sahara, just with pine forests and cold sea.
GPS: 55.5400, 21.0800
Lithuania's most important cathedral looks like a Greek temple with its six Doric columns — but beneath the floor lie crypts from the 1200s with medieval frescoes and the tomb of Lithuania's patron saint, Saint Casimir. The freestanding bell tower next to it rises 52 metres.
GPS: 54.6850, 25.2870
Europe's largest baroque old town spans 3.6 km² with 1,500 buildings from Gothic to Neoclassical. 28 churches rise above the red rooftops — one for each of the city's historic guilds. Napoleon called St. Anne's Church so beautiful he wanted to carry it home to Paris in the palm of his hand.
GPS: 54.6784, 25.2860
Five majestic mounds rise above the Neris valley as a monument to Lithuania's birth. This was the country's first capital in the 13th century — and beneath the grass lie 10,000 years of unbroken human settlement. Archaeologists have uncovered remains from 13 prehistoric layers.
GPS: 54.8839, 24.8325
Over 200,000 crosses, crucifixes and rosaries cover a small hill north of Šiauliai. Nobody knows exactly when it started — the first crosses appeared after the uprising against the Tsar in 1831. Soviet bulldozers removed them three times. The next morning, new ones stood. Pope John Paul II celebrated mass here in 1993.
GPS: 56.0153, 23.4166
98 kilometres of sand separate the Baltic Sea from the Curonian Lagoon — one of the world's most beautiful spits. Europe's tallest shifting dunes rise 60 metres above sea level. Fishing villages with half-timbered houses in cobalt blue and ox-blood red cluster along the lagoon shore. UNESCO called it an outstanding example of humanity's struggle against nature.
GPS: 55.3025, 20.9800
Lithuania's most photographed building sits on an island in the middle of Lake Galvė — a red brick castle from the 14th century reflecting perfectly in the still water. Grand Duke Vytautas the Great resided here when the Lithuanian Grand Duchy stretched from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Today it's Lithuania's only surviving water fortress.
GPS: 54.6525, 24.9339
Lithuania's most iconic building — a red tower on a wooded hill that has watched over Vilnius for 600 years. Here the Lithuanians raised the Tricolour on 1 January 1919 as an independent nation for the first time. And here the flag wavered again on 7 October 1988, as Lithuania began its path out of the Soviet Union. The tower IS Lithuania.
GPS: 54.6868, 25.2902
On 1 April 1997, Vilnius' most dilapidated quarter declared itself an independent republic. Užupis has its own constitution (translated into 50 languages), its own flag, its own president and its own army — of 12 men. Article 1: 'Everyone has the right to live by the Vilnelė river.' Article 12: 'A cat is not obliged to love its owner but must help in times of need.'
GPS: 54.6780, 25.2950
326.5 metres of concrete and steel — Lithuania's tallest building and the site of the country's most dramatic moment of freedom. On 13 January 1991, Soviet tanks rolled towards the tower. 14 unarmed civilians died standing in front with bare hands. Today memorials stand at the base, and the restaurant at 165 metres slowly rotates with views across all of Vilnius.
GPS: 54.6878, 25.2148
The only surviving city gate of Vilnius' nine medieval gates holds one of the most venerated Madonna icons in the Catholic world. Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn — a gold-plated icon from the 17th century — draws pilgrims from across Poland and Lithuania. They kneel on the pavement below, praying upward toward the open chapel above the gate.
GPS: 54.6733, 25.2873
33 different types of brick shaped into one of Gothic architecture's most dazzling masterpieces. St. Anne's Church is so intricate that Napoleon allegedly said he would carry it to Paris in the palm of his hand. The façade resembles frozen lacework — pointed arches, pinnacles and rose windows in a pattern so complex that architectural historians still debate its origins.
GPS: 54.6835, 25.2917
Founded in 1579 by the Jesuits — the oldest university in the Baltics and one of the oldest in Northern Europe. 13 interconnected courtyards linked by arcades, with 16th-century frescoes and an astronomical observatory from 1753. The library holds 5 million volumes, including medieval manuscripts.
GPS: 54.6826, 25.2873
Vilnius' most beautiful park stretches along the Vilnelė river in the shadow of Gediminas Hill. Restored in 2013 following historic 19th-century plans — with botanical gardens, fountains, a music pavilion and playgrounds surrounded by 500-year-old trees. From here you have the best view up to St. Anne's Church and Gediminas Tower.
GPS: 54.6845, 25.2935
In the basement of the former KGB headquarters in Vilnius, the execution cells remain intact. The Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights shows Lithuania's double tragedy — first Nazi, then Soviet occupation. The prison cells, interrogation rooms and execution chamber with the original drain in the floor are preserved exactly as they were. Thousands of Lithuanians felt the Soviet system's brutality here.
GPS: 54.6803, 25.2782
Lithuania's oldest stone castle grows from the bluff where the Neris and Nemunas rivers meet — two rivers that have defined Lithuanian history. Built in the 14th century against the Teutonic Order, besieged at least 13 times. Most is in ruins, but the round defence tower and an entire wing have been restored. From here you see the confluence of two rivers and understand why this spot was strategically vital.
GPS: 54.8988, 23.8870
1.6 kilometres of lime trees, cafés and interwar architecture — Europe's longest pedestrian street cuts through the heart of Kaunas. When Vilnius was occupied by Poland (1920-1939), Kaunas served as Lithuania's temporary capital, and Laisvės Alėja was the parade street. The Art Deco façades, university buildings and the Catholic church at the end tell the story of a country that built its identity in 20 years.
GPS: 54.8960, 23.9120
Over 3,000 devils, demons and witches from around the world under one roof — the world's only museum dedicated to the Devil. Painter Antanas Žmuidzinavičius collected the first 260 figures. After his death the collection exploded with donations from 70 countries. Here you'll find everything from Japanese oni to Lithuanian wooden devils, from Mexican Día de Muertos skeletons to a famous caricature of Hitler and Stalin dancing over Lithuania.
GPS: 54.8955, 23.9085
Lithuania's most splendid baroque church sits in a forest on the shore of Kaunas Reservoir — an Italian-designed masterpiece from 1667 with frescoes covering the entire ceiling and a dome that makes you forget you're in the Baltics. Built by Italian architects for the Camaldolese order, with marble imported from Italy and artists brought from Florence.
GPS: 54.8730, 24.0165
50,000 people — including 30,000 Jews — were shot and buried in mass graves at this 19th-century fort. The Ninth Fort is Lithuania's most haunting Holocaust memorial. The 32-metre concrete monument towers over the landscape like a silent scream. Inside the fortress you see the cells, courtyards and tunnels where prisoners were held before execution.
GPS: 54.9366, 23.8653
175 hectares with 180 original buildings from all of Lithuania's regions — farmsteads, windmills, churches and villages resurrected in the Lithuanian forest. Europe's largest open-air museum recreates four centuries of Lithuanian peasant culture. You can enter the houses, see original 18th-century furniture and taste authentic Lithuanian rye bread baked over an open fire.
GPS: 54.8620, 24.2090
The world's largest collection of Baltic amber fills a Neo-Renaissance palace from 1897, surrounded by Lithuania's most beautiful botanical garden with 500 tree species. 28,000 pieces of amber — from tiny insects trapped 40 million years ago to 3.5 kg mammoth lumps. The Amber Road along the Baltic began here, where waves wash amber gold onto the beach.
GPS: 55.9130, 21.0560
Lithuania's only port town has an old town that looks more like northern Germany than Eastern Europe — half-timbered houses, cobbled lanes and a harbour smelling of smoked fish and tar. Klaipėda was called Memel until 1923 and was German for 700 years. The old port is now filled with restaurants and galleries, but you can still see the original warehouses and the little street Friedricho Pasažas with its distinctive red brick.
GPS: 55.7100, 21.1350
52 metres of pure sand rise above Nida like a Saharan dune in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Parnidis is the Curonian Spit's highest point and the most dramatic sand dune in Northern Europe. A granite sundial from 1995 marks the summit — damaged by a storm in 1999 and re-erected as a monument to nature's power. From here you see Russia to the south, the sea to the west and the lagoon to the east.
GPS: 55.2937, 20.9772
Nobel laureate Thomas Mann was enchanted by the light over Kuršių Nerija and built his summer house here in 1930. The blue wooden house with its brown roof looks out over the Curonian Lagoon and the shifting dunes. Here he wrote parts of the Joseph trilogy, calling the place 'my Italian experience in Nordic disguise'. The house is now a museum with original furniture and Mann's manuscripts.
GPS: 55.3030, 21.0075
A red and white lighthouse from 1874 towers over Nida with views of the Baltic Sea, the lagoon and the shifting dunes. 29.3 metres tall — and from the top you can see the entire Curonian Spit's narrow strip of sand curving northward toward Klaipėda. The old lighthouse was an important navigation marker for the trade route between Memel and Königsberg.
GPS: 55.3020, 20.9955
A 300-metre walkway floats through the treetops above Anykščiai forest — ending in a 34-metre observation tower with 360° panorama of green Lithuania. The path gradually rises from the forest floor to the canopy, and you watch the forest transform beneath your feet. In autumn the colour explosion is unforgettable.
GPS: 55.5105, 25.1095
At the geographical centre of Europe (calculated by France's Institut Géographique National in 1989) stretches a 55-hectare sculpture park with over 100 works by artists from 33 countries. Founded in 1991 by Gintaras Karosas — the young Lithuanian sculptor who planted his vision in a forest 20 km north of Vilnius. Here you'll encounter Magdalena Abakanowicz's 22 basalt sculptures and Karosas' own 3,000 m² TV sculpture made from discarded televisions.
GPS: 54.7820, 25.3030
When Lithuania tore down its Lenin statues in 1991, one man collected them. Viliumas Malinauskas — a successful mushroom farmer — transported 86 Soviet monuments to his private forest and created Lithuania's most controversial museum. Lenin, Stalin, Lithuanian communist leaders and Soviet soldiers now stand among birch trees and muskrats. In the middle of the forest, loudspeakers play Soviet propaganda.
GPS: 54.0310, 24.0650
The Nemunas river draws its most dramatic bend at Birštonas — a 180° horseshoe loop enclosing a tiny spa town with mineral springs and pine forests. The town has been curing people with its mineral water since 1382 and is Lithuania's most elegant spa destination. From the observation tower on Vytautas Hill you see the entire horseshoe bend with the river gliding silently below.
GPS: 54.6040, 24.0250
Lithuania's largest telescope sits on a forested hilltop 70 km north of Vilnius — far from the city's light pollution. Molėtai Astronomical Observatory has a 165 cm Ritchey-Chrétien telescope and a 200-seat planetarium. At night the sky here is so clear that the Milky Way traces itself as a luminous river above the forest.
GPS: 55.3175, 25.5610
Lithuania's oldest Gothic brick church towers over the Nemunas river as a monument from 1578. The red wall facing the river reflects in the still water, and the original Gothic window arches are intact after nearly 450 years. The church is an active parish church — not a museum — and the light falling through the narrow windows creates a medieval atmosphere.
GPS: 54.8490, 23.7540
A white Renaissance castle with four corner towers and an arcaded courtyard — Lithuania's most beautiful 17th-century manor house stands above the forested slopes of the Nemunas valley. Built by a Hungarian noble family, expanded by Lithuanian magnates and restored from ruins in the 2010s. The castle is now a museum with views stretching across the Nemunas valley to the horizon.
GPS: 55.0595, 23.4175
A neo-Gothic castle in red brick with a 33-metre observation tower offering the most magnificent panorama of the Nemunas valley. Raudonė is the most dramatically positioned of the castles along the river — high on a forested bluff overlooking the river's bends and endless forests to the horizon. The tower is open to visitors — and the view is worth every step.
GPS: 55.0770, 23.5060
550 km² of pristine pine forest, crystal-clear rivers and traditional Dzūkija villages where people still pick mushrooms and berries as their ancestors did. Lithuania's largest national park is a world of silence, birds and forest trails — without tourist crowds, without noise. The Ūla river cuts through sandstone gorges with crystal-clear water perfect for kayaking.
GPS: 54.0500, 24.4000
Lithuania's oldest multicultural town has an old town with Scottish, German, Jewish and Lithuanian quarters — a small Europe compressed into one town. In the 17th century, the Radziwiłł family created an oasis of tolerance here: Reformed churches, Catholic monasteries, a synagogue and a Lutheran church stood side by side. The well-preserved old town with Renaissance and Baroque houses is one of Lithuania's most underrated.
GPS: 55.2830, 23.9810
Lithuania's fourth-largest city is the 'City of the Sun' — a nickname stemming from the pagan sun temple that once stood here. Šiauliai was 80% destroyed in World War II but rose again with a pedestrian zone (Vilniaus gatvė) full of cafés, street art and the iconic sundial monument. The city is also the gateway to the Hill of Crosses 12 km north.
GPS: 55.9330, 23.3140
470 metres out into the Baltic Sea stretches Lithuania's longest pier — and at the end awaits the country's finest sunset. Palanga Pier is Lithuania's answer to California's Santa Monica Pier, just with amber instead of surfboards. In summer hundreds gather along the pier to watch the sun set into the sea, and applause rings out when the last sliver disappears.
GPS: 55.9130, 21.0480
A Neo-Renaissance palace from 1879 surrounded by a 52-hectare park designed by Édouard André — the French landscape architect who also designed Palanga's botanical garden. Plungė was the residence of the Ogiński family — the Lithuanian-Polish noble dynasty that composed Lithuania's unofficial national anthem, the polonaise 'Farewell to the Fatherland'. Today the palace houses a Žemaitija art museum.
GPS: 55.9110, 21.8450
In Lithuania's 'Venice', the street is a river. Mingė is a fishing village where the Minija river IS the main street — houses stand on both banks, and boats are the number one means of transport. Colourful wooden houses with flower gardens reflect in the still water. In summer the mail boat goes from house to house, and children row to school. It's Europe 100 years ago.
GPS: 55.3350, 21.2810
A Prussian coastal fort from 1865 has become Lithuania's most visited museum — with a Baltic aquarium, dolphin show, seal pool and maritime history exhibition in the old casemates. Fort Kopgalis sits on the northern tip of Kuršių Nerija, at the entrance to Klaipėda harbour. 500,000 visitors a year make it Lithuania's most popular attraction by far.
GPS: 55.7200, 21.0980
Four empty nuclear missile silos hiding in a forest in Žemaitija National Park. Plokštinė was one of the Soviet Union's most secret bases — built by 10,000 soldiers with shovels in 1960-62. R-12 Dvina missiles, 22 metres tall, range 2,080 km. So secret that the Americans only discovered it in 1978.
GPS: 56.0275, 21.9092
When Khrushchev banned religious symbols in the 1960s, stonecutter Kazys Orvydas saved hundreds of crosses and saint figures from Salantai cemetery and brought them home. His son Vilius filled the farmyard with bizarre stone sculptures, iron constructions and folklore figures. Orvydų Sodyba is a surreal open-air cathedral of defiance — outsider art for 40 years.
GPS: 56.0517, 21.6123
Baroque frescoes in the dome, 7 rococo altars — and 5 glass coffins in the crypt with Dominican monks from the 1700s. Liškiava Dominican Monastery rises on a high bank above the Nemunas River, 9 km north of Druskininkai. Atypical architecture for a Dominican monastery: Greek cross plan with semicircular apse instead of the usual single-nave hall church.
GPS: 54.0805, 24.0571
A hillfort at the confluence of the Nemunas and Merkys — military nerve centre and royal hunting lodge for Lithuanian grand dukes and Polish kings. The Teutonic Order attacked in 1377, 1394 and 1403 — burned everything down, but Merkinė rose each time. King Władysław IV Vasa died here during a hunt on 20 May 1648.
GPS: 54.1583, 24.1833
Built by Russia 1902-1913 to defend the western border. Prison under the Tsars, NKVD transit station to the Gulag under the Soviets, execution site for approximately 50,000 people under the Nazis. On Christmas night 1943, 64 prisoners escaped by drilling 314 holes in a metal door and filing away the connections. 11 survived the war.
GPS: 54.9447, 23.8706