Kaunas
Stuffed animal heads, peasant shirts and other rustic paraphernalia support the traditional Lithuania theme here, and the voluminous menu covers Lithuanian classics 鈥 herrings every which way, cold beetroot soup, 诲颈诲啪办耻办耻濒颈补颈 (cannonball-like dumplings) 鈥 plus stewed venison and dramatically impaled pork, fit for a medieval banquet.
There's a second branch in Old Town, at M Valan膷iaus gatv臈.
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Lithuania's dark 20th-century history is poignantly told here, 7km north of Kaunas. Begin in the sombre, church-like gallery with striking stained glass鈥
MK 膶iurlionis National Museum of Art
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One of Lithuania's oldest and grandest galleries, Kaunas' leading art museum (founded 1921) is the place to acquaint yourself with the dreamlike paintings鈥
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Housed inside a former 18th-century Carmelite monastery, this is a particularly thorough introduction to the history of the region and the town. Displays鈥
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Kaunas-based Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara (1900鈥86) saved around 6000 Jewish lives between 1939 and 1940, issuing transit visas to stranded Polish鈥
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This museum is devoted to the Devil, Lucifer, Satan, the fallen angel, the seducer, the cajoler, with over 3000 statuettes, carvings, masks and other鈥
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Artist Vytenis Jakas moved into this courtyard over a decade ago and turned it into an ever-evolving art project, creating murals and transferring onto鈥
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Built in 1871, the only functioning synagogue of those that survived since 1941, and one of the few remnants of Kaunas' once-strong Jewish community, this鈥
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Built by Camaldolese monks in the 17th century, this striking baroque monastery lies 9km east of central Kaunas, on a promontory jutting into the Kauno鈥
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This branch of the many-tentacled 膶iurlionis museum exhibits works by 20th-century Lithuanian artists, including a particularly poignant Lithuania In鈥
2. St Michael the Archangel Church
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The Soviets turned this blue-domed neo-Byzantine church, which fills the sky so dramatically at the eastern end of Laisv臈s al臈ja, into a stained-glass鈥
3. Kaunas Museum for the Blind
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The catacombs of St Michael the Archangel Church are set up to let you experience a short spell as a person without sight.
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The statue of 鈥楳an鈥 in front of the Mykolas 沤ilinskas Art Gallery was modelled on Nike the Greek god of victory; it caused a storm of controversy when its鈥
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This untitled installation by Giny Vos, unveiled in 2018, is a memorial to the Dutch diplomat Jan Zwartendijk, who saved thousands of Jewish lives during鈥
6. Mykolas 沤ilinskas Art Gallery
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This art museum on three floors is based on the private collection of Mykolas 沤ilinskas, but is now operated by the National 膶iurlionis Art Museum. The鈥
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This small mosque is one of four in Lithuania and the only one made of brick in the Baltics, constructed here to replace the original wooden mosque from鈥