Sights Kaunas, Lithuania

To inspect inetresen Old Town with its many museums: Art Gallery M. Žilinskas, Museum of Lithuanian literature behalf Maironis, the Museum named MK Čiurlionis Ceramics Museum, a museum of folk music, a museum of medicine and pharmaceuticals and the military museum of Vytautas the Great.

Large popular local cable cars and fountains. Functional architecture of 20-30-ies to identify the person Kaunas center. These gray rectangular house, losing in color, have taken their toll with oval windows and balconies.

Among the main attractions can be identified Kaunas Castle, built in the mid-14 century, the Devil's Museum, a fun museum, where a collection of a variety of snakes: from wooden to amber, large and small, from all over the world, the National Museum of Art MK Churlionis, which, in addition to the work of the Čiurlionis collected a variety of works of art, the earliest of which date back to 16 century.

Less well known is Russia's tourist Military Museum with the majestic lions at the entrance. Here you will find the remains of Lituaniki - a legendary aircraft, which fly across the Atlantic committed pilots Darius and Girėnas depicted on the banknote value of 10 litas, but whether gasoline is over, whether the Germans shot them and they flew to Kaunas. Uniforms Lithuanian and other armies, other military personal belongings, maps should lead to the delight of all students, male.

If you will give a free day in the summer, go get a tan on Kaunas Sea - a large reservoir, which runs excursion steamer. And visit Pazhayslis - monastery, built in Baroque style, having gone to visit kamedulskim, Orthodox archive, lunatic asylum, shelter, a branch of the museum Churlionis etc. Here was buried Alexei Fyodorovich Lvov, author of "God Save the Tsar". Also in Kaunas lived and worked Mikhail Chekhov, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, founder flyuksizma Jurgis Machyunas and grandmother of Leonard Cohen.

In Kaunas is the only zoo in Lithuania, where live more than two thousand animals. Zoo and zoomuzey founded the famous ornithologist Tadas Ivanauskas. On direct, overlapping, flat streets of the center can be found zoomagazinchiki, where you can go with children to watch the fish swimming in an aquarium or buy a hamster.