Kaunas intends to become the first city in the Baltic States that is fully tailored for cyclists. The bicycle revolution presented on Friday initially covers the central part of Kaunas – it will be entirely tailored for bicycles. It is planned to later expand to other districts of the city. “About 3 thousand inhabitants of[…]

This week, a photograph exhibition ‘Kaunas 1919-1939: The Capital Inspired by the Modern Movement’ created by Gintaras Balčytis and Gintaras Česonis was opened as part of the 41st session of the World Heritage Committee at the ICE Congress Centre in Krakow. This is an excellent opportunity to introduce the Kaunas modernism architecture to the UNESCO[…]

On Saturday night, the International Children’s Games (ICG ‘2017) ended with a solemn, noisy and fun closing ceremony in the Kaunas Sports Hall. For the teams of Kaunas and other Lithuanian cities the games were successful – the Lithuanians won the most medals in the overall ranking, but in the general table of awards Taipei’s[…]

On June 15-18, Kaunas was successfully presented at the 37th international hanseatic days held in Kampen, the Netherlands. In this colourful event where 79 cities from 13 European countries participated, Kaunas was presented as a contemporary, modern city which will become the European Capital of Culture 2022, outstanding by its interwar architecture, international events taking[…]

It is hard to imagine a more impressive scenario according to which the first stage of the Water Formula F2 World Championship took place in Kaunas. Thousands of spectators, crashes, and bronze finish of Lithuanian Edgaras Riabko. It was how the first F2 race was held in the temporary capital. Both organizers and heads of[…]

It is a merit of the group of institutions operating in Kaunas that a drug problem in Kaunas is not as big as in European cities. This conclusion was made by the participants of the international conference “Safe Cities without Drugs: Preventing, Protecting, Policing” which ended on Tuesday. The experts who gathered for two days[…]

This year, another 50 scruffy structures having the status of cultural heritage will disappear from the map of grey and shabby buildings in Kaunas. This year, for the facade renewal programme that gave impetus for the revival of Kaunas central part last year, the city allocated 1 million euros to be provided to Kaunas residents[…]

Heads of departments of foreign companies operating in Kaunas, members of the Seimas, and representatives of other organizations unanimously agree that the resurgent Kaunas day after day is gaining greater potential to grow and thrive. At the same time the city leaders assess the compliments rationally. “Kaunas is changing. Not only we were tired to[…]