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Kaunas

Lithuania's second city, with a medieval old town, a castle where two rivers meet and interwar modernist buildings on the World Heritage list.

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Best Time to Go
May–Sep
Our full guide to Kaunas is being written. It's on the Lithuania list as Worth a Detour.

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Cities · UNESCO

Vilnius

About 57 miles away

A baroque old town with an artists' republic, Užupis.

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Cities · UNESCO

Riga

About 142 miles away

The world's greatest concentration of Art Nouveau buildings, and a huge market.

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Nature · UNESCO

Curonian Spit

About 118 miles away

A long sandy strip of dunes.

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Lithuania

Baroque Vilnius and the Curonian Spit.

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