LT · Curated travel guide
Curonian Spit, Trakai Island Castle, Vilnius Cathedral and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Lithuania and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets. One is on UNESCO's World Heritage list.
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Sand dune spit on the Baltic
Sometimes called the Courish Split, a thin, curving sand-dune spit 98-kilometre-long (61 mi) dividing the Baltic Sea from the Curonian Lagoon; a UNESCO World Heritage Site shared by Russia and Lithuania.
Photo: A.Savin, FAL
Island castle in Trakai, Lithuania
A castle on an island in Lake Galvė at Trakai, Lithuania. Kęstutis began the stone castle in the 14th century, and his son, Vytautas the Great, finished the main work around 1409; Vytautas died there in 1430.
Photo: Ana, CC BY-SA 2.0
Catholic cathedral in Lithuania
Lithuania's chief Catholic cathedral, in Vilnius Old Town beside Cathedral Square, whose full name is the “Cathedral Basilica of St. Stanislaus and St. Ladislaus of Vilnius”.
Photo: Wilno_-_katedra.JPG : Krzysztof Mizera derivative work: -- Chrumps ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0
Decommissioned nuclear power plant in Visaginas Municipality, Lithuania
A decommissioned nuclear power station with two RBMK-1500 units in Visaginas Municipality, Lithuania, named after Ignalina, a city nearby.
Photo: EPA PHOTO, CC BY 2.5 dk
Historic tower in Lithuania
The surviving part of the Upper Castle on top of Gediminas Hill in Vilnius, Lithuania, with a viewing platform looking out over the Old Town and the Central Business District.
Photo: BigHead, CC BY-SA 4.0
Hill in Lithuania
Lithuania's highest point, in the Migūnai forestry of the Medininkai Highlands, lying approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi) southeast of Vilnius, the capital.
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Resutas assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain
City gate
A city gate in Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, counted among the city's key religious, historical and cultural monuments, and a major destination for Catholic pilgrims in the country.
Photo: Kontis Šatūnas, Public domain
Historic fort in Šilainiai elderate, Kaunas, Lithuania
A stronghold in the north of Šilainiai elderate, Kaunas, Lithuania, belonging to the Kaunas Fortress, which dates from the late 19th century.
Photo: Creative at lt.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0
Official Palace of the President of Lithuania
Where Lithuania's president officially lives and works: a palace in the Old Town of Vilnius.
Photo: Marcin Białek, CC BY-SA 3.0
Roman Catholic church in Vilnius, Lithuania
A Roman Catholic church in Vilnius' Old Town, on the Vilnia's right bank, founded circa 1495–1500, and a prominent example of both Brick Gothic and Flamboyant Gothic.
Photo: Diliff, CC BY-SA 3.0
Officially the Republic of Lithuania, one of the three Baltic states, on the Baltic Sea's eastern shore. Latvia lies to its north, Belarus to its east and south, Poland to its south, and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian semi-exclave, to its southwest; across the sea to the west it shares a maritime border with Sweden. It covers 65,300 km² (25,200 sq mi) and has 2.9 million people.
Officially The Republic of Lithuania. Known locally as Lietuva.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Curonian Spit, Trakai Island Castle, Vilnius Cathedral and Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and others. Curonian Spit is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Lithuania that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
1 of the 10 in this guide: Curonian Spit. That is not the full count for Lithuania, only the listed sites that made this guide.
Lithuanian. The currency is EUR.
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