Kaunas Golden Age tour
3 hour private tour of Golden age Kaunas led by a professional local guide, recommended by True Lithuania website!
Price: see here
The tour is personal. There would be no additional people in the group except for you and your family / friends. The tour may begin at any convenient time.
Order at tour.baltic@gmail.com
This tour will show you why Kaunas is considered among Europe’s best places to explore that unique period between the two World Wars.
Kaunas Golden Age tour includes
• Modernist Kaunas City Center redeveloped in that Golden Age, recognized as a UNESCO world heritage site.
• Massive government buildings – new Parliament, House of President, and Bank of Lithuania built to serve the entire newly-emerged country.
• Restaurants and cultural venues where Golden Age star musicians performed for the Interwar elite.
• Examples of art deco, Modernism, National style and other art styles of the era.
• Žaliakalnis Funicular, built in the early 30s to link the center to the district of interwar elite private homes.
• Christ Ressurection Basilica, envisioned in 1930s to be the largest in the Baltics.
• And more...
Optional:
• Museum of M. K. Čiurlionis, the most renowned Lithuanian artist who developed his original style encompassing painting and music on the eve of the Golden Age.
• War Museum (built in the Golden Age).
• Devil Museum – the only of the kind in the world, a collection of demon statuettes by eccentric Golden Age painter Antanas Zmuidzinavičius, the visit includes the possibility to see his own authentic apartment.
What will you learn...
• How the elite and common men of the 20s and 30s era lived, worked and spent their pastime?
• How a small town Russian fortress town was transformed into a European capital in the span of under 10 years?
• How could Kaunas look like without the Golden Age?
• Why was Kaunas was always given the title “temporary capital” rather than just called a state capital?
• Why is interwar often considered to be the Golden Age of entire Lithuania?
• And more…
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