Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Kaunas, Lithuania

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Number of sights 10 sights
Distance 4.3 km
Ascend 80 m
Descend 72 m

Explore Kaunas in Lithuania with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in KaunasIndividual Sights in Kaunas

Sight 1: National Theater of Drama in Kaunas

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The National Kaunas Drama Theatre (NKDT), formerly Kaunas State Drama Theatre, is a theatre and theatre company in Kaunas, Lithuania. The company is the oldest professional theatre troupe in Lithuania, founded in 1920 at the building now known as the Kaunas State Musical Theatre. It moved to its current location, the building formerly housing the "Metropolitain" cinema, in 1959.

Wikipedia: National Kaunas Drama Theatre (EN)

450 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 2: Kaunas State Musical Theatre

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The Kaunas State Musical Theatre, formerly Kaunas City Theatre, is a theatre in Kaunas, Lithuania. It is home to a musical theatre company of the same name, established on 27 November 1940 in the former State Theatre hall on the Laisvės Alėja.

Wikipedia: Kaunas State Musical Theatre (EN)

122 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Kauno miesto kamerinis teatras

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Kaunas city Chamber Theatre is a municipal theatre in Kaunas, Lithuania. The theatre was established in 1976 as Kaunas Youth Musical Studio.[1] Its founder and long-standing director was the Lithuanian actor and opera singer Stanislovas Rubinovas.[2] The theatre obtained the status of a professional theatre in 1986 and was called Kaunas Youth Chamber Theatre. Its name was changed to Kaunas Chamber Theatre in 2005. After Stanislovas Rubinovas death, his son, actor and director Aleksandras Rubinovas, was leading the theatre as artistic director from 2014 till 2016. From April 2016 former municipal budget office Kaunas Chamber Theatre was replaced by the public institution Kaunas City Chamber Theatre. The theatre, in addition to his own productions, also started to represent chamber productions of other Lithuanian theatres more intensively.

Wikipedia: Kaunas Chamber Theatre (EN), Website

1406 meters / 17 minutes

Sight 4: Kauno evangelikų liuteronų bažnyčia

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Kaunas Lutheran Holy Trinity Church is a Lutheran church in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania. It is one of the first Lutheran churches in Kaunas, built in 1683. The wooden main altar dates from 1692. The church was closed by the Soviet authorities, nowadays it used by the local university.

Wikipedia: Kaunas Lutheran Holy Trinity Church (EN)

253 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 5: Church of Jesuites

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Church of Jesuites

Kaunas st. St. Francis Xavier Church is a church in Lithuania, in Kaunas Old Town, near the Town Hall Square. In the late Baroque style. Next to it is the Kaunas Jesuit Monastery.

Wikipedia: Kauno Šv. Pranciškaus Ksavero bažnyčia (LT)

225 meters / 3 minutes

Sight 6: Museum of Lithuanian Sport

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Lithuanian Sports Museum – Lithuanian Museum, scientific educational institution in Kaunas, Museum of Lithuania, 7, 9, accumulating, researching, promoting body culture and sports values of Lithuanian and Lithuanian expatriates.

Wikipedia: Lietuvos sporto muziejus (LT)

532 meters / 6 minutes

Sight 7: Santakos parkas

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Santaka Park is a park covering an area of 12.69 ha at the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris rivers in Kaunas Old Town. The boundaries of the park were approved on May 11, 1993.

Wikipedia: Santakos parkas (LT)

717 meters / 9 minutes

Sight 8: House of Perkunas

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The House of Perkūnas is one of the most original and Gothic secular buildings, located in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania. Originally built by Hanseatic merchants and served as their office from 1440 until 1532, it was sold in the 16th century to the Jesuits who had established a chapel there in 1643. The Jesuits have also completed the Church of St. Francis Xavier at the Town Hall Square in 1722.

Wikipedia: House of Perkūnas (EN)

64 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 9: Vytautas Magnus Church

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Vytautas Magnus Church

Church of Vytautas the Great or the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic church in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania, and is the oldest church in the city and an important example of Gothic architecture in Lithuania, having the only Gothic cross-shaped plan in Lithuania.

Wikipedia: Church of Vytautas the Great (EN)

576 meters / 7 minutes

Sight 10: Aleksoto funikulierius

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Aleksotas Funicular is a funicular railway located in Aleksotas elderate of Kaunas, Lithuania. The funicular constructed on the right bank of the Nemunas River was officially opened on 6 December 1935. The track of the Aleksotas funicular remained unchanged. The track has a separation in the centre of the track for carriages to pass. Special automatic brakes were installed in carriages not to let them run down in case of cable damage. The length of funicular is 132.9 metres (436 ft), gradient - 18 degrees. Authentic traction equipment, including the genuine pre-war wagons, wooden seats, and stop platforms of the funicular are still used.

Wikipedia: Aleksotas Funicular (EN)

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