Things To Do in A hike in Kaunas reservoir regional park, Restaurants in A hike in Kaunas reservoir regional park
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The 10 Best Walking Tours in Kaunas County, Kaunas County
Discover the best top things to do in Kaunas County, Lithuania including A hike in Kaunas reservoir regional park, Private Tour of Kedainiai and Kaunas Old Town, Private 6-Hour Tour to the Rumsiskes Open-Air Museum from Vilnius, Kaunas Old Town tour, Kaunas tour with transfer from Vilnius, Kaunas Tour: Love Stories, Kaunas Old Town: 2-Hour Ghost Tour, Kaunas Modernism Architecture Tour, The old town of Vilnius: An audio tour from Cathedral Square to the Gate of Dawn, Kaunas Private Walking Tour.
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6 Walking Tours in Kaunas That You Shouldn't Miss
Kaunas (/ˈkaʊnəs/; Lithuanian: [ˈkɐʊˑnɐs] ( listen); also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the centre of a county in Trakai Municipality of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413. In the Russian Empire, it was the capital of the Kaunas Governorate from 1843 to 1915. It served as temporary capital of Lithuania during the interwar period, while the traditional capital of Vilnius was part of Poland between 1920 and 1939. During that period Kaunas has been nicknamed the Little Paris because of rich cultural and academic life, fashion, construction of countless Art Deco, Lithuanian National Romanticism architectural style buildings as well as popular furniture, interior design of the time and widespread café culture. The city interwar architecture is regarded as one of the finest examples of the European Art Deco and received the European Heritage Label, it also resulted in naming Kaunas the first city in Central and Eastern Europe as a UNESCO City of Design. In 2022, Kaunas will be the European Capital of Culture, together with the Luxembourgish city of Esch-sur-Alzette.