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Kaunas In Your Pocket

Kaunas In Your Pocket
Exactly 200 years ago on June 23, 1812 Napoleon Bonaparte and his 690,000-strong Grande Armée crossed the Nemunas on the outskirts of Kaunas, thus entering Russia and officially beginning his ill-fated march on Moscow. At the time Kaunas, then known as Kovno, was a bustling outpost on the border of the Russian Empire and the short-lived Duchy of Warsaw with a large Russian, Polish and Jewish population and only a handful of ethnic Lithuanian inhabitants. Two centuries and several devastating wars later and today's Kaunas is renowned locally as the most Lithuanian of Lithuania's large cities. How times have changed. Despite its rather lacklustre contemporary ethnic make-up, 21st century Kaunas boasts a cultural diversity that gives every other city in the country a good run for its money, offering an affordable, frequently unpolished and unequivocally eye-opening adventure to anyone looking for a truly unique holiday destination. Kaunas In Your Pocket has been condensing the best and most interesting bits of the city into pocket-sized reading material for the last two decades and continues to be the only authoritative and impartial guide to the city in English. Find within the contents of this year's fully updated online guide information on everything you need to get the most out of Kaunas from hotels to Holocaust sites.  All comments and suggestions, polite or otherwise, are welcome as usual. Send us an email if you dare. Enjoy!

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