Travel spots in Lithuania
Towns and sacred heritage in Lithuania
Old-town squares, street perspectives, Gothic and Baroque churches, monasteries, and wooden village shrines.
Town and sacred heritage guides
Each place page combines cultural context, practical details, and visitor orientation.
Miestų objektai ir sakralinis paveldas
Abakai Lourdes is not a single grotto but a sacred ensemble arranged at several levels of a wooded Minija valley slope.
Agailiai Forest Chapel stands in a secluded clearing surrounded by an old burial ground, crosses, and a well.
Against the Wind is Klaudijus Pūdymas's bronze image of Jean-Paul Sartre on Parnidis Dune, created after a 1965 photograph by Antanas Sutkus.
Akmenė Church of St Anne is the town's defining landmark, built through parish donations and labour between 1907 and 1912.
Akmuo Church of the Crucified Jesus is a rare pairing of a modest eighteenth-century Dzūkija sanctuary and an exceptionally slender open bell tower.
All Saints Church was built in 1620-1631 beside the former Rūdninkai Gate, then on Vilnius's edge.
Alytus Old Town Square is a compact public space between Bažnyčios Street and Alyvų Takas.
Angel Hill in Trakai is an open-air place of wooden angels, wayside shrines, and prayer signs in Būdos village, created in 2009 to mark the millennium of…
The Discalced Carmelite monastery of Antalieptė with the Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross is a late Baroque ensemble by the Šventoji River in Zarasai…
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The Arch is a monument by Arūnas Sakalauskas unveiled in Danė Square in 2003.
The Ateitininkai Union Palace at Laisvės al. 13 is one of the most interesting transition buildings in interwar Kaunas architecture.
Babriškės Church of Saint Michael the Archangel is a compact fieldstone sanctuary on the right bank of the Varėnė.
Baisogala Church of the Holy Trinity is a white masonry sanctuary completed in 1882 in the centre of Baisogala, near the Kiršinas.
The Bank of Lithuania Palace in Kaunas is a central-bank palace designed by Mykolas Songaila and built in 1925-1928, as the temporary capital consolidated the…
The Bartninkai Church Ruins in Suvalkija are the conserved remains of the 1790 masonry church where Jonas Basanavičius was baptized.
Vytautas the Great founded the Basilica of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Trakai in 1409.
Bernardine Garden is a historic Vilnius Old Town park in a bend of the Vilnelė, linking the layers of Bernardine monastery gardens, the Vilnius University…
Count Jonas Tiškevičius built Biržai Church of St John the Baptist in 1857-1861 to a design by Laurynas Cezaris Anikinis.
Biržai Evangelical Reformed Church is a red-brick Neo-Gothic church built in 1867-1874 to a design by Riga architect Heinrich Schell.
Būtingė Evangelical Lutheran Church is a neo-Classical masonry sanctuary built in 1822-1824 and consecrated in December 1824 - the fifth successive church of…
Butrimonys Vortex Fountain is not a conventional open basin with upward jets.
The Guroniai complex known as Cardinal Vincentas Sladkevičius's homestead is a memorial and pilgrimage ensemble created after his death, not his surviving birth…
The Cat with a Gentleman's Face is a public artwork by Regimantas Midvikis at the junction of Kalvių and Pasiuntinių streets in Klaipėda Old Town.
The Cathedral of the Dormition is one of Vilnius's oldest Orthodox sanctuaries.
The Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Crafts Palace on K.
Christ the King Church in Klaipėda is a modest late-nineteenth-century sanctuary beside former Ferdinand Square.
Christ's Resurrection Basilica in Žaliakalnis is a symbol of Kaunas Modernism and statehood: an interwar independence monument idea, Soviet interruption, white…
The parish of Blessed Jurgis Matulaitis was established in 1988 for Vilnius's growing western districts.
The Church of Divine Providence is a small Neo-Gothic sanctuary designed by Antanas Vivulskis and consecrated in 1913 for an orphanage on Gerosios Vilties…
This Klaipėda Orthodox church began on 4 January 1995, when its first liturgy was celebrated in a classroom in the eastern wing of Secondary School No.
The Church of Jesus the Redeemer in Antakalnis is a centrally planned Baroque sanctuary built in 1694-1717 on Kazimierz Jan Sapieha's suburban estate at the…
The Church of Our Lady of the Scapular is both a red-brick landmark of Druskininkai and a document of an unfinished architectural idea.
From a distance, the Church of Our Lady of the Snows in Girdiškė appears to be an unexpectedly large red-brick example of rural Neo-Gothic architecture.
The Church of Our Lady Queen of the Rosary is a red-brick Gothic Revival sanctuary built in 1909-1910 on a rise beside Lake Vepriai.
The Church of Saints Constantine and Michael was built in 1911-1913 as an Orthodox memorial that linked the memory of Prince Konstanty Ostrogski with the…
The Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Plateliai was built from hewn logs in 1744 and ranks among Lithuania's oldest surviving timber churches.
The Church of Saints Philip and James is the Dominican church of Lukiškės.
The Church of St Anne in Alvitas is a modern sanctuary consecrated in 2020, with a dramatically curved russet exterior, a narrow glazed front, and a 28-metre…
The Church of St Anthony of Padua in central Birštonas was built in 1900-1909 to a design by Wacław Michniewicz.
Šilalė's Church of St Francis of Assisi is a red-brick Gothic Revival sanctuary built in 1905-1909, its tall tower defining the town skyline.
The Church of St Ignatius began within a seventeenth-century Jesuit novitiate.
The Church of St James the Apostle commands the skyline of the small Aukštaitian town of Alanta.
The Church of St James the Apostle forms part of Jonava's oldest surviving masonry ensemble on the right bank of the Neris.
The Church of St John the Baptist in Plungė is a 67-metre-long red-brick Neo-Romanesque landmark whose two sharp spires close the vista along Vytauto Street.
The Church of St John the Baptist in Viekšniai is a tall white landmark on the right bank of the River Venta.
The Church of St Mark the Evangelist in Šateikiai is one of Lithuania's earliest Historicist churches to use Gothic forms consistently.
The Church of St Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist is one of Lithuania's most coherent Neo-Gothic ensembles.
The Church of St Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist in Veiviržėnai is a wooden Samogitian church built in 1767-1769, state-protected as part of a building…
The Church of St Michael the Archangel and St John the Baptist is one of the most commanding Baroque landmarks in a small Lithuanian town.
The Church of St Michael the Archangel in Ariogala was built in 1926-1939 on the site of a wooden church destroyed by fire in 1915, following a design by Swiss…
The Church of St Michael the Archangel in Rietavas, locally known as the White Swan, is one of Žemaitija's most expressive early Historicist churches.
The Church of St Michael the Archangel in Žiobiškis is a Neo-Gothic sanctuary built from 1902 to 1911 in Rokiškis District.
The Church of St Paul the Apostle is a modern Catholic church at 1 Santarvės Street in Visaginas, designed by the brothers Ramūnas and Jaunius Beinortas.
The Jesuits began building St Raphael the Archangel Church in 1703 in the historic suburb of Šnipiškės.
The Church of the Annunciation in Lentvaris is a rare Lithuanian example of Italian-inspired Romanesque Revival architecture.
The Church of the Assumption in Kartena is a three-nave timber Neo-Baroque basilica built after the town fire of 1873, distinguished by a broad curving facade…
The Church of the Assumption in Telšiai, affectionately known as the Minor Church, compresses an unusually layered history into one site on Vilnius Hill.
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the principal landmark of central Joniškis and a living parish church shaped by several centuries of…
The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Leipalingis is distinguished not by tall towers but by the broad proportions of late Classicism.
The Church of the Guardian Angels is a wooden sanctuary built in 1830, later enlarged into a Latin-cross plan.
The Church of the Holy Trinity in Sudervė is one of Lithuania's rare circular-plan Neoclassical churches.
The Church of the Immaculate Conception in Alsėdžiai is a timber Samogitian sanctuary built in 1793 and commanding the town's radial plan from Alka Hill.
The Church of the Lithuanian Martyrs in Berčiūnai is not one building but a memorial route between two sites.
The Church of the Name of the Blessed Virgin Mary is the centrepiece of a state-protected heritage complex of regional significance in Kalvarija.
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Žeimiai is one of Vaclovas Michnevičius's strongest Gothic Revival churches.
The Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God was built in 1862-1863 from a standard design adapted by engineer A.
The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Gadūnavas is a distinctive example of Lithuanian brick Gothic Revival completed in 1901.
The Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a broad, twin-towered fieldstone landmark at the upper end of Valkininkai's historic radial square.
Danė Riverside Square is a green public space in central Klaipėda, reopened after reconstruction in 2022.
Darbėnai Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Romantic-era sanctuary built in 1838-1842 for Count Mykolas Tiškevičius to a design by Friedrich Gasben and…
The Holy Spirit, or Dominican, Church at Dominikonų g. 8 in Vilnius is one of Lithuania's most valuable late-Baroque and Rococo interiors, with 16…
Dotnuva Monastery Ensemble is a sacred-heritage site in the Kėdainiai region, where the history of a Bernardine monastery founded in 1701 and a masonry church…
Dovilai Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lithuania Minor sanctuary built of fieldstones and brick in 1861-1862 by the Minija River, with the Register naming…
The Druskininkai Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “Joy of All Who Sorrow” is an active wooden Orthodox church in the resort centre.
Dubingiai Church of St George is a rare Lithuanian example of twenty-first-century sacred architecture and private patronage.
Dūkštos Church of St Anne is an active Vilnius District church whose fieldstone walls are articulated by red-brick lancet windows, a tall Gothic Revival tower,…
Dusetos Holy Trinity Church is a red-brick Neo-Romanesque sanctuary built in 1886-1888 in Dusetos, on the southern shore of Lake Sartai.
Eglė the Queen of Serpents in Palanga is a bronze sculpture created by Robertas Antinis Sr in 1958 and installed in Birutė Park in 1960.
Historian and engineer Teodoras Narbutas designed Eišiškės Church of the Ascension of Christ and its bell tower, built between 1847 and 1852.
Elektrėnai Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Martyrs is a huge modern sanctuary and the main symbol of a Soviet-era energy-workers' town.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Vilnius does not face Vokiečių Street but stands inside a courtyard behind its continuous frontage.
The Firefighters' Palace in Kaunas is a modernist and Art Deco fire station built in 1929-1930 and designed by engineer-architect Edmundas Frykas with…
The Fisherman was modelled by Kazimieras Kisielis in 1958 and unveiled in bronze beside the Danė during the 1971 Sea Festival.
Fisherman's Daughters is an approximately 4 m high bronze composition by Zuzana Pranaitytė, installed in the Šventoji dunes in 1982.
Former Alanta Synagogue is a restored mid-nineteenth-century wooden Jewish house of prayer.
The former Kaunas Central Post Office on Laisvės aleja is one of the key buildings of interwar Kaunas modernism.
The documented history of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption reaches the fourteenth century, while its fabric combines Gothic, late-Baroque and Classical…
Gardamas Lourdes occupies the slope below the churchyard of St Roch.
The Gates of Dawn are the only surviving gate of the Vilnius city wall and one of Lithuania's most important pilgrimage sites, where the image of Our Lady of…
Gegrėnai Church of Jesus of Nazareth is a small Samogitian wooden sanctuary founded by Mykolas Venslauskas on a private estate in 1754.
Giruliai Railway Station was built in 1892 with the Klaipėda-Bajorai line.
Griškabūdis Church of the Transfiguration was built in 1792-1796 to a design by Carmelite engineer-architect Juozapas Vališauskas and consecrated in 1800.
Miestų objektai ir architektūra
Babrungėnai Watermill on the Babrungas River is the only watermill in Žemaitija National Park.
Baltic World Tree is a 2005 sculpture-fountain by Henrikas Orakauskas in Kupiškis.
The Bastion of the Vilnius Defensive Wall is a first-half-of-the-seventeenth-century fortification on Bokšto Hill: a cannon tower, horseshoe-shaped artillery…
The green timber Birštonas Kurhaus continues a resort-hall tradition documented from 1855, but today's building is not the unchanged first hall.
Birutės Vila is a free indoor pavilion opened in Vytautas Park in 2015, where mineral water circulates through a shallow basin, fountain jets, and an…
Biržai Independence Square is a public memory space beside the Church of St John the Baptist.
Visitors use Biržai Narrow-Gauge Railway Complex for the surviving station yard with a timber station built in 1922, two goods warehouses, a baggage building,…
The Biržai Pedestrian Bridge over Lake Širvėna is Lithuania's longest pedestrian bridge, 525 m long, linking Biržai town with Astravas Manor.
The Black Ghost is a bronze sculpture placed in Klaipėda Old Town in 2010, beside the castle moat and swing bridge.
The Cat Courtyard is a small public space at P.
Chestnut Avenue is a pedestrian link between Aušros Avenue and Vilniaus Street with more than a century of history.
The Church of St Michael the Archangel in Mosėdis is more than the town's white twin-towered landmark: it forms a protected ensemble.
The Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross in Laukuva is a twin-tower church in Romantic forms built in 1852-1856 on a small rise in the town's historic…
The Church of the Immaculate Conception in Kvėdarna is distinguished by massive fieldstone-and-brick walls nearly a metre thick, a broad façade, rose window,…
Counts Tiškevičiai Avenue is a historic axis of the Palanga resort running from Kęstučio Street to the Kurhaus.
The Google Maps listing for Danė River Waterfront marks a representative point on the river's left bank, within the officially named 318-metre Buriuotojų quay…
Daugai is one of Lithuania's oldest towns, set beside long Lake Daugai in Dzūkija, where a medieval ducal manor past, towerless Church of Divine Providence, old…
Dituva Suspension Bridge is a narrow wooden-plank footbridge over the Minija, connecting the Dituva and Butkai-Rokai sides.
Dog Keksas is a small public sculpture by Ričardas Širvelis, installed in central Ukmergė in 2013.
The Druskininkai Musical Fountain is more than a ring of jets.
Druskupis is Lithuania's only open-air mineral-water evaporation tower, set in a Birštonas resort park.
Dubingiai Bridge across Lake Asveja is one of the most recognisable objects in Asveja Regional Park: the 1934 wooden bridge designed by engineer Anatolijus…
The former Slabada watermill dam crosses the Nevėžis near Krekenava.
Friedrich's Passage is an old-town building complex at Tiltų g. 26 and 26A in Klaipėda (Memel), protected by the Cultural Heritage Register as a Historicist-era…
The Glass Quarter in Vilnius is a small but dense old-town street fabric between Town Hall, the university, and the former Jewish quarter, where the memory of…
The Great Samogitian Wall is an evolving open-air sequence of art panels set into the retaining wall of Insula Hill on Respublikos Street in Telšiai.
Gudai Water Mill stands on the right bank of the Virvytė within Venta Regional Park.