Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #2 in Kaunas, Lithuania

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.

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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.

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The Lithuanian Sports Museum is a Lithuanian museum, a scientific educational institution in Kaunas, Muziejus str. 7, 9, collecting, researching, popularizing the physical education and sports values of Lithuania and the Lithuanian diaspora.

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The Town Hall of Kaunas stands in the middle of the Town Hall Square at the heart of the Old Town, Kaunas, Lithuania.The structure dates from the 16th century. It houses a Museum of Ceramics.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Church of the Blessed Sacrament or Corpus Christi Church is a Roman Catholic church in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania. The church was damaged by the Napoleonic Army in 1812 and together with the Dominican Monastery was closed in 1845 by the order of Russian tsar Nicholas I of Russia, in 1865 it was converted into an Orthodox church.

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Kaunas st. Gertrūda's church is a Gothic-style church in the east of Kaunas Old Town, at the end of Laisvės avenue, in a small courtyard.

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The Tadas Ivanauskas Zoological Museum was established in Kaunas, Lithuania, in 1919 by Tadas Ivanauskas (1882–1970).

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Kaunas Synagogue is one of two operating choral synagogues in Lithuania. It is located in Centras eldership, Kaunas. The Neo-Baroque synagogue was built in 1872. In 1902, before the Holocaust in Lithuania, it was one of over 25 synagogues and Jewish prayer houses in the city. The radically designed synagogue claims to have one of the most beautiful arks in the entire Jewish world.

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Kaunas State Philharmonic is located in the former Palace of Justice and the Parliament. The building was designed by the engineer and architect Edmund Fryk.

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Kaunas Evangelical Reformed Church is located in Kaunas, in the center, at E. Ožeškienės str. 41, its tower is located on the hill of the beginning of Savanorių Avenue. On the steep slope next to the church there is a concrete staircase connecting Savanorių ave. with Ožeškienės st.

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The M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum is a group of museums based in Kaunas, Lithuania. It is primarily dedicated to exhibiting and publicizing the works of the painter and musician M.K. Čiurlionis (1875–1911).

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The wall of the booksellers is a monument erected in 1940 in the garden of the Vytautas the Great War Museum in Kaunas.

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Kaunas State Puppet Theatre is a puppet theatre in Kaunas, Lithuania. The professional theatre was established in 1958. Each theatrical season it offers to the spectators twenty puppet performances, and 4–5 new plays are usually staged. There are two halls for spectators – 226 and 50 seats each in the theatre. Small museum of puppets characters is set at the premises of the theatre. The theatre performed plays in festivals of many foreign countries.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Kaunas st. The church of the archangel Michael (Crew) stands in kaunas new town, in the eastern part of Laisvės avenue, in the center of a specially formed square.

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Jurgis Maciunas Square is a square named after The Founder of Fluxus Jurgis Maciunas, located in Kaunas, Naujamiestis, at a tripartite intersection connecting Vytautas Avenue, Donelaitis and Exhibition streets. The aforementioned intersection is located in front of the building No. 1 of Parodos str., where J. Maciunas himself lived as a child. The square was presented to the public on July 20, 2017, but the official ceremony of unveiling the square did not take place. This is said to have been contrary to the philosophy of the Fluxus movement, whose manifesto is based on the square.

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