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Kaunas

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Travelismything · 25/04/2024 18:30

Going for 2 days over the bank holiday weekend. Top tips please? I’ve been to Vilnius and Trakai Castle previously

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Travelismything · 26/04/2024 13:52

Bumping for daytime holiday planners!

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BlackLambAndGreyFalcon · 27/04/2024 10:16

Definitely visit the military fort just outside Kaunas. It was a political prison (pre-war) and a concentration camp during the war. It's all explained very well (in English) in the panels inside.
There are good views from the top of the funicular railway in Kaunas (there are two), but check the opening times - we turned up during their lunch break and had to walk up the hill!

Mama_bear · 27/04/2024 10:33

ciurlionis.lt/

Absolute must. Love his work, very rarely seen outside Lithuania.

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Travelismything · 28/04/2024 02:02

@BlackLambAndGreyFalcon - is that the ninth fort/IX fort ? Is it easy to get to by public transport?

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BlackLambAndGreyFalcon · 28/04/2024 12:27

Travelismything · 28/04/2024 02:02

@BlackLambAndGreyFalcon - is that the ninth fort/IX fort ? Is it easy to get to by public transport?

Yes it is. We had a car so we drove, so I don't know about public transport. But it isn't too far out of the city so I'm sure it'd be easy to pick up a Bolt (no uber in Lithuania but Bolt is fairly ubiquitous.

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