Kaunas

Kaunas Priest Seminary was one of the centres of the Lithuanian National Revival during the Russification era

Kaunas City Theatre, where the first session of the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania was held on 15 May 1920

Kaunas during the early years of the interwar period with horse-drawn trams

Lithuanian Air Force pilots with their ANBO 41 in Linksmadvaris aerodrome

President Antanas Smetona inspects the Lithuanian Army soldiers

Soviet political leader (without military shoulder straps) and the People's Seimas member (with red rose in his jacket lapel) announces to the Lithuanian People's Army non-commissioned officers that "soon you will become members of the Red Army" in Kaunas, 1940

LAF activists lead the arrested Commissar of the Red Army in Kaunas

LAF activists inspect the deprived T-38 tank from the Red Army in Kaunas

Session of the Provisional Government of Lithuania in Kaunas

Wehrmacht soldiers marching through the Liberty Avenue in Kaunas

Romas Kalanta set himself on fire close to Kaunas State Musical Theatre protesting against the Soviet regime

Vienybės aikštė (Unity Square) monument with eternal flame

Ąžuolynas is the largest urban stand of mature oaks in Europe (ranging in age from 100 to 320 years old), and a very popular recreational destination

Kaunas Cathedral Basilica is the religious centre of Kaunas

Maironis Lithuanian Literature Museum, located in the Siručiai Palace

Lituanica's replica and ANBO I in the Lithuanian Aviation Museum

Pažaislis Monastery complex has the most marble-decorated Baroque church of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

Church of St. Francis Xavier, built by the Jesuits in 1666–1732, and Kaunas Town Hall, dating to 1542

Kaunas Central Post Office is one of the most recognizable buildings of interwar Lithuania (pictured in 1930)

Romuva Cinema, the oldest still operational movie theater in Lithuania, which was initially opened in 1940

Coin of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, minted in Kaunas Mint, 1665

Bank of Lithuania Palace in Kaunas was built in 1924–1928 with sumptuous interior and splendid exterior in order to showcase the economic capability of a newly restored Lithuania

Business centre decorated with a 1000 Lithuanian litas banknote design

Kaunas Mosque is the only brick mosque in Lithuania. To this day, it is still used by the Lipka Tatars, who were settled in the country by Vytautas the Great during the Middle Ages.

The Neviazh Kloyz is one of the remaining former synagogues located in the Kaunas Old Town. The complex was built in the 19th century and also served as a community house and school.

Kaunas District Municipality main building before reconstruction

Solaris Trollino 12S trolleybus with distinctive lime green color in Kaunas

Kaunas S.Dariaus ir S.Girėno Sporto Centras

Kaunas University of Technology Science and Technology Center

Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kaunas Clinics

Second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life.

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Kaunas County

One of ten counties of Lithuania.

It is in the centre of the country, and its capital is Kaunas.

Esch-sur-Alzette

Commune with town status in south-western Luxembourg.

Sign at Esch-sur-Alzette railway station

The city was selected as the European Capital of Culture for 2022, alongside Kaunas and Novi Sad.

European Capital of Culture

City designated by the European Union for a period of one calendar year during which it organises a series of cultural events with a strong pan-European dimension.

Kaunas (Lithuania), the European Capital of Culture for 2022

Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg), the European Capital of Culture for 2022

Novi Sad (Serbia), the European Capital of Culture for 2022

The current European Capitals of Culture for 2022 are Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, Kaunas, Lithuania and Novi Sad, Serbia.

River in Europe that rises in central Belarus and flows through Lithuania then forms the northern border of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia's western exclave, which specifically follows its southern channel.

Neman opposite Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian exclave)

500 litas banknote featuring Nemunas loops

Napoleon and his army crossing the Neman in June 1812

It flows generally west to Grodno within 12 km of the Polish border, north to Kaunas, then westward again to the sea.

Trakai Voivodeship

Unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1413 until 1795.

Trakai Voivodeship (in red) in the 17th century

Trakai Voivodeship in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

The biggest cities in the voivodeship were Kaunas, Grodno and Trakai.

Temporary capital of Lithuania

The Historical Presidential Palace in Kaunas

The Constituent Assembly Palace, where the Constituent Assembly and first three editions of Seimas gathered

Palace of Justice and the Seimas, decorated with the Lithuanian tricolors in Kaunas

The temporary capital of Lithuania (Laikinoji sostinė) was the official designation of the city of Kaunas in Lithuania during the interwar period.

Neris

The river Neris, Viliya (Ві́лія) or (Wilia) rises in northern Belarus.

Confluence of the Viliya and Narach: a conjectured reason for the dual naming of Neris

Neris near Gediminas Tower in Vilnius, Lithuania

The Neris drainage basin. Standing out are the river and its main tributary. The latter rises near to Latvia, the Šventoji

It flows westward, passing through Vilnius (Lithuania's capital) and in the south-centre of that country it flows into the Nemunas (Neman), at Kaunas, as its main tributary.