HIGHLIGHTS

• Vilnius - the capital of Lithuania, located in the centre of Europe. The city is both contemporary and ancient, rich in architecture with historical monuments, cultural heritage, and has to offer various thematic festivals and entertainments. It is considered that Vilnius is one of the greenest European capitals - a compact city filled with parks and squares.
• Trakai- picturesque Trakai national park with pine forests and lakes, and the ancient Lithuanian capital - the residence of Grand Dukes of the country.
• Kačerginė, Kulautuva, and Zapyškis - three little towns located by the Nemunas riverside. Together they make a resort area of Kaunas District, which was famous during the interwar period for the pristine beauty of nature and the curative powers of the health resources they can offer. Today it is an area with exceptional tranquillity, silence, and coziness.
• Curonian Spit - a pearl of the Baltics, an adornment of the seacoast. The Curonian Spit is a narrow peninsula with sand dunes, separating the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea. By the end of 2000, the Curonian Spit territory was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List as a cultural landscape object.
• Nida - one of Lithuania’s representatives of the cultural sites and is included in Neringa’s administrative center. Most famous places in Nida: Parnidis dune, Thomas Mann museum, Amber Gallery, Ben sculpture, Fisherman museum, Nida lighthouse, Nida promenade, Wecekrug dune.
• Palanga - the largest and most famous Lithuanian seaside resort on the Baltic shore, 25 km north from Klaipėda. The resort is very popular because of the broad and spacious bar of clean sand with a long chain of undulating dunes which makes it ideal for sunbathing. The temperature here is higher than the annual average in Lithuania, the clouds here are clearer and the sun's radiation is greater. The amounts of ozone and iodine in the air are relatively high. The town is surrounded by pine forests and stands between two hills that are associated with many legends.
• Žemaitija National Park including Lake Plateliai - the center of the national park is the Lake Plateliai, which is the deepest, the largest, and most picturesque lake in Samogitia. Wonderful nature, rich history, and distinctive cultural property reveal the uniqueness of the ethnographic region of Samogitia.
• Cold war museum - located in the former Soviet Union`s complex of ballistic missile silo launch. From 1963 to 1978, four medium-range ballistic missiles SS-4, armed with 2- megaton power thermonuclear warheads here been deployed there.