Traveling in Kaunas

Kaunas is the second biggest city in Lithuania, located at the country's center. It is a city of medieval history as well as modern entertainment with castle ruins, churches, and cathedrals, as well as galleries, museums, theatres, and outdoor recreation.
Neighborhoods & Around
The city center, or Centras, of Kaunas is made up of the Old City and the New City, located just to the east of the confluence of the Nemunas and the Neris rivers. Old Town is the oldest part of Kaunas and features many surviving Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque buildings, built between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries. Significant features of this area include the town hall, cathedrals and churches, museums, and the pedestrian street known as Laisv?s Aleja, which is lined with many restaurants, cafes, and shops. New Town is located just east of Old Town, and developed later in a rectangular tsar-time structure with parks and open spaces. Features include business centers, hotels, and some shopping centers, as well as a number of universities, museums, theatres, and orchestra. Other surrounding neighborhoods include Zaliakalnis to the north, Sanciai to the east, Aleksotas to the south and Vilijampol? to the west. They are mostly residential with a few attractions.