Vilnius is a capital of Lithuania for nearly 700 years, founded in 1323 by the Grand Duke Gediminas. The historical centre of Vilnius included into UNESCO World Heritage list in 1994 is on of the largest in Eastern Europe, covering 360 ha or 3,6 sq. km.
Cathedral square – Historical centre of Vilnius. First of all pay your attention to the red brick castle on the top of the hill – these are the remaining of the Upper castle, down the hill you’ll see the reconstructed Lower Palace and Cathedral, surrounded by the whole 16th century complex of buildings nowadays hosting National and Applied Art museums.
Vilnius University was found in 1579, and remains one of the oldest universities in the Eastern Europe. Despite of its prominent history and gorgeous old buildings, few things have to be mentioned separately. First of all the Library, founded in 1580 with 4500 books, now taking care of nearly 5 mln books, among which the oldest known Lithuanian book “Katekizmas” by M.Mazvydas. Also the Observatory of the university founded in 1753.Churches.
Vilnius can be called the city of spires. Only in the old town of Vilnius there are nearly 40 churches of different confesions, representing different architectural styles. Most popular among locals and visitors are: catholic churches of St. Ann’s and St. Bernardines’, St. Johns’, Gates of Down, St.Peter’s and Paul’s, orthodox church of Holy Spirit, Jewish synagogue, and Karaites Kenesa.Uzupis is a well known artist republic, also has official right to be called Petit Montmartre given in 1998 by the MontMartre of Paris.
 
TV tower – every year becomes the highest Christmas Tree in the world.

The geographical centre of Europe was determined by French National Geographic Institute in 1998.

Trakai, a former capital of Lithuania, previously important political and trading centre, nowadays is known as a cute village in the premises of Vilnius. Surrounded by lakes and forests this place is most popular for its medieval castle erected in the middle of the lake Galve.

Kaunas is a second largest town in Lithuania, located in the geographical centre of the country. The city was for the first time mentioned in the crusaders’ chronicles in 1361. Most visited places in the city are the old town, Cathedral, Perkunas house and the complex of catholic Priests’ seminary buildings.

Klaipeda is a port of Lithuania and a most important economical centre after Vilnius. Founded in 1252 by the Livonian Order, belonging many years to Prussia, Sweden and Germany this town has distinctive style of architecture, more similar to typical hanseatic towns then to Vilnius and Kaunas.

Curronian Peninsular. This place has many names – Lithuanian Sahara, paradise of the Baltic Sea. We can for sure say that this is unique piece of Lithuania; wind blew the sand from the sea forming peninsular, which has no land connection with Lithuanian mainland. This narrow belt of sand is nearly 100 kilometres length though only up to few kilometres wide. So in most of the places, standing on the high dunes you can see both Baltic Sea and Curronian lagoon on the other side. Despite of natural beauty this place is also famous for ethnographical heritage, especially wooden fishermen houses dated back to the 19th century.

Hill of crosses for the first time mentioned in the middle of the 19th century is sometimes called a monument of Christian faith in Lithuania. In the beginning of the 20th century the Hill was already well known sacral place. Despite that during Soviet period the crosses were crashed many times, every time they were secretly rebuilt by the people. At a present time there are nearly 60 000 of crosses on the hill.