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Historical Presidential Palace
This 1826 Neo-Baroque building that served as Lithuania's Presidential Palace between the wars features a permanent
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Kaunas Castle
The city's 13th century Castle, probably built by Kęstutis to defend the road to Trakai, was the country's first defensive bastion and the only double-walled castle in Lithuania.
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Mega Aquarium
At 10 metres in height, the extraordinary aquarium inside the city’s Mega shopping centre is the tallest marine aquarium
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Napoleon's Hill
From this tiny little hill in Nemunė Napoleon allegedly watched his massive Grande Armée of 690,000 troops cross the Nemunas into Russia at the start of his ill-fated attack on the Russian Empire in 1812.
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Old Town
Covering a total of 106 hectares, and dominated by a majestic, often crumbling mix of Gothic and Renaissance-styles with a cluster of 16th-century merchant houses around the Town Hall, Old Town is not to be missed.
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Old Town Hall & Town Hall Square
Begun in 1542 and predominantly late-Baroque in style with elements of early Classicism and Gothic architecture, the swan-like
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Pažaislis Monastery Complex
The magnificent Late Baroque church and monastery at Pažaislis on the eastern edge of Kaunas was built in the 17th century by Italian master craftsmen for the obscure Camaldolese Monks.
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Perkūnas House
One of the most original examples of late Gothic secular architecture in Lithuania, Perkūno Namas was built by Hanseatic merchants at the end of the 15th century.
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Seventh Fort
The seventh in a series of 12 forts built between 1882 and the First World War to protect what was at the time part of Russia
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Vytautas the Great Bridge
An important crossing point over the Nemunas for centuries, miscellaneous contraptions have existed where the current Vytautas
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Vytautas the Great Mosque
The Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s wars with the Golden Horde along the Black Sea coast led to Vytautas the Great’s resettlement of various Tatars in Lithuania from the end of the 14th century onwards.
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