Walking Tour in Vilnius
I would suggest planning an excursion to Vilnius old town starting from Gediminas avenue. It is not difficult to get there... more »
Vilnius - European Capital of Culture
Unfortunately Vilnius city can not make boast of itself or be proud that at least with satisfactory marks it passed the exam of the organization of this European-wide cultural event.
Autumn equinox “Legend of Vilnius”
Here by the bank of the river Neris pupils and students of Vilnius city will burn Gediminas poles, traces of wolf and XIV century ritual hatchet signs made of candles.
Leisure in Preila, Kursiu Nerija
I am just trying to defend and exalt a good reputation of Neringa, where are more visitors, who like beauty and delicacy, but they also like to have fun - just maybe one point more quiet.
Traditional Festivals in Lithuania
February: Trotter Horse-racing on the Lake of Sartai.
Dozens of thousands of the spectators come to admire a fight of the trotters.
October Festival GAIDA
GAIDA covers and presents a broad sweep of the latest musical tendencies, fashions, and creative processes in Lithuania, Europe and the world.
October Vilnius City Jazz Festival
The event is open to all styles and branches of jazz music, since one of its major purposes is to display as big a variety of jazz performances as possible
September International city festival CAPITAL DAYS (Sostinės dienos)
Festival offers a wide range of high-level entertainments from classical music and opera, to jazz, folk, pop, rock and world music, and also film programme, street theatre, fashion shows and carnivals.
August post-folk alternative festival Mėnuo Juodaragis
Evoking old traditions and presenting contemporary, living Baltic culture, MJR festival will charm visitors with archaic music, rituals and dances, also crafts' yard and many good forgotten things.
August Festival of crafts and warfare “Apuole 854”
August 22-23, festival of crafts and warfare of Baltic region tribes “Apuole 854” is inviting you.
August Visaginas Country Music Festival
Sometimes Visaginas country music festival is even called Lithuanian Woodstock.
August Festival“Rock nights”
About 4-5 thousands of rock, rock-n-roll music lovers from Lithuania and other countries come to "Rock nights" festival annually.
July The Sea Festival in Klaipeda
The Sea Festival is one of the largest Lithuania’s event process including city and entire Lithuania’s artistic forces, as well as city and country business representatives.
July Hard Music Festival “Devil’s stone”
The hard music festival is held in the middle of July near the biggest Lithuanian boulder, wreathed in the myths - Puntukas stone.
July Festival „Blues nights”
Dozens of different styles of blues are resounding in an international festival of blues, held in Varniai (Telsiai region), on a bank of Lukstas lake.
July - August Christopher Summer Festival
The festival became the event of musical gourmands because of its universality and attraction of the professional performers
July Days of Live Archaeology in Kernavė
Visitors of the event will have an unique possibility to get in touch with reconstructed archaic crafts.
June- August Pazaislis Music Festival
It is an all summer lasting cycle of events, which starts in the beginning of June since 1996. The start of this festival was G. F. Handel‘s oratorio „The Messiah", which was performed in a churchyard of Pazaislis monastery and attracted a couple thousands of people.
June-July International Festival "Organ Summer"
As usual the programmes of the Festival reflected the wide panorama of organ music: from the old Masters up to improvisations – when music was born at the same time it was played
May 20 Kaunas city birthday feast “Kaunas days”
Every year the city vernal revives, citizens and city guests crowds to the folk artists fairs, concerts, which reveals the achievements of the professional also the mass amateur art representatives and represents the artistical life of Kaunas.
May, first Saturday Street Musician Day
Every first Saturday of May everybody who has any musical instrument and can obtain a sound or noise with it, goes out to the streets of a city and plays.
April Kaunas Jazz Festival
Kaunas Jazz keeps up with the international jazz scene and presents Lithuanian audience with a wide range of the dominant contemporary jazz styles
March The Birštonas Jazz Festival
At the end of March 2010, the small town of Birštonas in the south-western part of Lithuania is sure to become an important landmark on the map of the cultural activity of the country.
March Kaziukas Fair
The beginning of spring is a particular time in Lithuania. Its remarkable feature, besides the melting snow and the first sunshine, is a great number of tourists flooding Vilnius streets and squares. On the first Sunday of spring, the atmosphere of joy and celebration reigns Vilnius. The reason for this is the famous Kaziukas fair, the annual folk crafts and arts festival, attracting visitors from all over the world to the capital of Lithuania.
February Shrove Tuesday (Užgavėnės) in Lithuania
Shrove Tuesday (Užgavėnės in Lithuanian) is a celebration that is held just before the beginning of the Christian liturgical season of Lent.