Kėdainiai

Kėdainiai In Your Pocket

Smack bang in the middle of Lithuania on the banks of the Nevėžis, the remarkable little town of Kėdainiai was first mentioned in 1372 in Herman Wartberge's Livonian Chronicle, and has over the centuries suffered both the positive and negative consequences of being a moderately important Lithuanian conurbation. The former spiritual home of the fabulously wealthy and influential Protestant Radvila (Polish, Radziwiłł) family, just 300 years ago Kėdainiai boasted a 50% Scottish population and was a popular refuge for other European and Lithuanian Protestant communities. Prior to the Holocaust, the town’s Jewish community ran the entire fire brigade and even sported their own football team, and traces of their culture still exist, although Kėdainiai’s post-war makeup is now almost exclusively Lithuanian. Unfairly labelled the Cucumber Capital of Lithuania, modern Kėdainiai is well worth further investigation, with one of the best preserved old towns in the country, a better-than-average museum and a large Arabic-looking spike in a park.

OUR Kėdainiai HIGHLIGHTS

Smilga

Kėdainiai - Accommodation - Cream of the crop
Just around the corner from Senoji Rinka, this classic three-star beauty has rooms for most tastes and practically every budget, all with minibars and internet connections. The first floor restaurant
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Evangelical Reformed Church & Radvila Mausoleum

Kėdainiai - Sightseeing - Churches
Dating from the first half of the 17th century this large and fairly unassuming church built at the behest of Kristupas Radvila II is more famous for what lies underneath it than for anything found i
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Grėjaus Namas

Kėdainiai - Where to eat - International
Not only do they have a swanky little café with outside seating at ground level, a dip downstairs via the bagpipes reveals a truly magnificent vaulted brick cellar for the ultimate fine dining e
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Multicultural Centre

Kėdainiai - Sightseeing - Jewish Kėdainiai
Housed inside the town’s former 19th-century Small Synagogue, Kėdainiai’s Multicultural Centre hosts temporary exhibitions from around the world in the first-floor space where fo
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Janina Monkutė-Marks Gallery

Kėdainiai - Sightseeing - Places of interest
Janina Monkutė-Marks was born in the Lithuanian town of Radviliškis before WWII, receiving her education in and around the Kėdainiai region. In 1944 she moved to Germany before
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Minaret

Kėdainiai - Sightseeing - Places of interest
A singularly strange structure hidden across the tracks from the train station at Dariaus ir Girėno 93, this 30-metre white Turkish-style spike with a pointy red top was constructed between
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