Square
Kaunas Town Hall Square
Kaunas, Lithuania
The old town's central square, dominated by a white town hall nicknamed the White Swan.
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Laisvės alėja
A long pedestrian boulevard lined with trees, shops and interwar buildings in the centre of Kaunas.
Free to enter about 60 min
For storytellers
Why Laisvės alėja matters
This is the great promenade of Kaunas, a tree-lined pedestrian boulevard that runs for more than a kilometre. Shops, cafés and elegant interwar buildings line the route, with plenty of benches for people-watching. Walk it from the old town to the Church of St Michael the Archangel at the far end, and you cover a good part of the city centre.
Talking points
- The boulevard is pedestrian only, and over a kilometre long.
- It links the old town with the modernist new town.
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