Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Kaunas, Lithuania

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.

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The monument of Pope John Paul II in Kaunas is a monument to Pope John Paul II in santaka park, next to Kaunas St. Paul's Cathedral. Churches of St. George the Martyr. It is intended to commemorate the Pope's visit to Kaunas in 1993. The monument was unveiled and consecrated on June 4, 2011, on a hill where the Pope visited in 1993. The author of the classical bronze work on the postament is the Polish sculptor, professor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków, Česlav Dzvigai.

Wikipedia: Popiežiaus Jono Pauliaus II paminklas Kaune (LT)

Kaunas st. The Church of Jurgis Martyr is one of the first churches in Kaunas Old Town. The building stands in Santaka Park in front of Kaunas Castle. Next to the church there is a Monastery of Bernardines in Kaunas.

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Kaunas Švč. Trinity Church is a nonparaptic Catholic church, which stands in Kaunas Old Town, A. Jakšto str. 1, in the northwestern corner of the Town Hall Square. The late Renaissance style also has Gothic features. Next to it is Kaunas Seminary of Priests.

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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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The Museum of the History of Lithuanian Medicine and Pharmacy is located in a restored 16th-century building at the Town Hall Square in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania.

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Kaunas st. The Basilica of the Archdiocese of The Apostles Peter and Paul is a church in Lithuania, which stands in Kaunas, in the Old Town, near the Town Hall Square. Gothic, after reconstructions acquired features of the Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Gothic. The largest Gothic building in Lithuania. One of the places of Catholic pilgrimage in the Archdiocese of Kaunas.

Wikipedia: Kauno Šv. apaštalų Petro ir Povilo arkikatedra bazilika (LT)

Kaunas pantomime theatre is pantomime theatre in Kaunas, Lithuania. The theatre was established in 1968. Founder and leader of the Kaunas Pantomime theatre was artistic director Kestutis Adomaitis (1948–1996). Kaunas Municipality becomes the founder of Kaunas Pantomime Theatre in 2003. Kaunas Pantomime theatre is the only Lithuanian professional ensemble theatre with a repertoire of this genre only. The theatre performed in many foreign countries, such as Germany, Russia, Romania, Latvia, Syria, Jordan, China, Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, and Denmark.

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Kaunas st. St. Nicholas' Church is a church that stands in the Old Town on the slope of Žaliakalnis southwestern hill.

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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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The Historical Presidential Palace is a Neo-baroque building in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania that served as the Presidential Palace during the interwar years. Today, the palace is a branch of the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum.

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Owl Hill is a hill and park in Kaunas, Žaliakalnis, so called because of the sculptures of owls created by sculptor Vincas Grybas adorning the fence surrounding the park.

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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.

Wikipedia: Kauno evangelikų reformatų bažnyčia (LT)

Žmuidzinavičius Museum, also known as the Devil Museum, is a museum in Kaunas, Lithuania, dedicated to collecting and exhibiting sculptures and carvings of devils from all over the world. The collection was started by artist Antanas Žmuidzinavičius (1876–1966), and a memorial museum was established in his house after his death. In 1966, the devil collection consisted of 260 sculptures but visitors began to leave their own devils as gifts to the museum. In 1982, a three-story extension was built to house the expanding collection and, as of 2009, the museum's holdings had grown to 3,000 items.

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Lenartavičiai Chapel, also known as the chapel , is a chapel that stands in Kaunas, Žaliakalnis, at the end of a small Pharmacy street. Chapels and the nearby Szcz. According to the data of 2011, the sculpture complex of the Virgin Mary, which has architectural-artistic, historical, urban, landscape values, was declared a cultural heritage object protected by Kaunas City Municipality. In 2023, the chapel with the sculpture was inscribed in the Register of Cultural Values. The object was restored on private initiative.

Wikipedia: Lenartavičių koplytėlė (LT)

Žaliakalnis Funicular is a funicular railway in Kaunas, Lithuania. Built in 1931, it is the oldest funicular in Lithuania and is among the oldest vehicles of such type in the world still operational. The funicular is made of a wood-paneled coachwork and climbs 142 metres (466 ft) up from behind the Vytautas the Great War Museum to the Basilica of the Resurrection.

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Kaunas our Lord Jesus Christ's Resurrection Basilica is a monumental Roman Catholic church in Kaunas, Lithuania. The church was consecrated in 2004, and in 2005 it was finally completed. It is the largest basilical church in the Baltic States.

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Kaunas Small Church of the Resurrection of Christ is a Catholic church in Kaunas, Žaliakalnis, Aukštaičiai str. 4. It is the second parish church in the parish of Christ's Resurrection, centered on the Basilica of the Resurrection of Christ. Both shrines stand in the same Žaliakalnis quarter, 0.4 km from each other.

Wikipedia: Kauno Mažoji Kristaus Prisikėlimo bažnyčia (LT)

The Church of the Manifestation of the Lord of the Novorossiysk Dragoon Regiment is an Orthodox church in Kaunas, Žaliakalnis, Radvilėnai pl. 1A, which existed before the Soviet era, on the territory of the former barracks town. Along with the Church of the Crewe, st. The Church of Sergius of Radonezhietis is one of the six former departmental churches of Kaunas Fortress. In 2014 it was entered in the Register of Cultural Property.

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