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Vilnius | Sightseeing | Out of town

Europos Parkas
Founded in 1991 by the Lithuanian sculptor Gintaras Karosas, this wildly different and recommended countryside excursion brings together a number of names in local and international sculpture including Karosas himself, the Polish artist Magdalena Abakanowicz as well as Dennis Oppenheim and the late Sol Le-Witt from the United States to create a vision that in the words of the park’s founder ‘…give[s] an artistic significance to the geographic centre of the European continent…'.  Featuring close on 100 works by artists from countries as diverse as Armenia, Japan and Venezuela, the park is spread out over 55 hectares of rolling hills and woodland and includes static and interactive art as well as the now infamous Info Tree, Karosas’ crumbling shrine to propaganda made up of some 3,000 televisions with a prostrate Lenin at its centre. With the addition of a restaurant and gift shop, the park offers a splendid few hours away from the city for people of all ages. To get there by car, take Kalvarijų north to the Santariškės roundabout, turn right towards the Green Lakes (Žalieji Ežerai) and follow the signs. Buses leave from the Žalgirio stop on Kalvarijų, including a minibus to Skirgiškės which goes all the way to the park itself. Alternatively, bus N°36 goes part of the way there but requires the last couple of kilometres to be made on foot. 
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Joneikiškiai, 10km north of Vilnius

tel. (+370) 5 237 70 77

Open 10:00 to sunset.
Lithuanian Road Museum
Opened in 1995 on the 25th anniversary of the completion of the Vilnius-Kaunas highway, this beautifully bizarre celebration of road-building features a number of rooms and outbuildings bursting with oddities aimed at shedding light on the history of road-building from Roman times to the modern day. Highlights include historical machines used in the industry, charming wooden models of Lithuanian road intersections and several albums of related photography that in themselves could take a few hours to go through, regrettably all of it in Lithuanian. The whole affair is overseen by Juozas Stepankevičius, a sprightly septuagenarian monoglot and former road engineer who's passion for the subject is unrivalled. Guided tours are available if booked in advance. The entrance to the museum is from the town centre, not the main highway as the address suggests. [...]



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Kauno 14, Vievis

tel. (+370) 528 269 13

Open 08:00 - 17:00,
Sat Closed,
Sun Closed.
Pavlovo Respublika
Lasting a little under 30 years, the tale of the Pavlovo Respublika is about as strange as it gets. The brainchild of the Polish priest and politician Paweł Ksawery Brzostowski (Lith. Povilas Ksaveras Bžostovskis, 1739-1827), this extraordinary independent republic covering barely [...]



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