Spend time in Vilnius: offers
We offer an ever-increasing array of entertainment in Vilnius
For reservations, please contact us at tour.baltic@gmail.com
Tours
3 hour private tours of Vilnius with professional local guides. Possible tours:
*General tour of Vilnius Old Town.
*Jewish heritage in Vilnius.
*Polish heritage in Vilnius.
*Multicultural Vilnius.
*Lithuanian beer tour.
*Baroque Vilnius.
*Legends of Vilnius
*Tailor made tours according to your wishes.
Price: 129 euro per group (for 3 hours).
Vilnius Old Town tour
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
UNESCO-inscribed Vilnius Old Town is among the Eastern Europe's largest.
It is a district of cobbled streets, countless church spires, multiethnic districts, old university, cute courtyards and more. A local guide will tell the local stories
Vilnius Old Town tour includes
• Baroque, Gothic and Rennaisance churches with their breathtaking religious art.
• Castles of Vilnius.
• Picturesque courtyards - the hidden face of old Vilnius.
• Main squares
• Vilnius University - among the Eastern Europe's oldest places of higher education.
• Ethnic minority districts - Russians, Poles, Jews, Germans, Tatars and East Slavs coexisted in Vilnius for centuries.
Optional: Genocide sites that remind of the 20th century occupations that Vilnius spent decades under.
• And more...
Additional possibility:
*Detour by public transport to Ss. Peter and Paul church with its breathtaking Baroque interior with thousands of white figurines.
What will you learn
• How the Europe's largest Medieval state (Grand Duchy of Lithuania) was governed from Vilnius
• Why there are so many churches in Vilnius.
• Why is Vilnius so important to so many different ethnic groups.
• Why Vilnius old town is so big and why it has one of the Eastern Europe's oldest universities.
• The legend of Iron Wolf whose howl caused grand duke Gediminas to establish Vilnius city.
Optional: How and where KGB used to watch, torture and kill the people of Lithuania during the Soviet occupation.
The tour is available in English, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Norwegian (rarer languages with surcharge).
Vilnius Jewish tour
3-hour Jewish private tour of Vilnius led by a professional licenced 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
Vilnius is sometimes called "Jerusalem of the North" and is rich in Jewish locations. At one time Jews were the largest ethnic group of Vilnius. During this tour, you will see much of that history.
Vilnius Jewish tour includes
• Vilnius Jewish districts and ghettos.
• Vilnius synagogue.
• The site of Vilnius Great Synagogue.
• Locations related to Vilnius Gaon (the final commentator of Talmud).
• Authentic Yiddish inscriptions on buildings.
• Statues and plaques of famous local Jews.
• Holocaust locations in Vilnius Old Town.
• Jewish information center.
• Former Jewish theater.
• And more...
What will you learn
• Learn how Jews of Vilnius contributed greatly to worldwide Jewish thought and Judaism.
• See the streets, courtyards, and alleys where a large Jewish community has thrived for centuries.
• Learn about the local Jewish community and culture, both historic and contemporary.
• Learn how some Jews managed to hide or escape from the planned murder under Nazi German occupation (1941-1944) and what resistance took place.
• Who were the famous Jews who lived in Vilnius, what languages they spoke, where they came from.
• And more...