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Lituanie

28 lieux · 73 musées

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Régions de Lituanie

25 musées Vilnius City Municipality Vilniaus miesto savivaldybė · Vilnius Découvrir → 14 musées Kaunas City Municipality Kaunas · Kauno miesto savivaldybė Découvrir → 6 musées Klaipeda City Municipality Klaipėdos miesto savivaldybė · Smiltynė · Klaipėda Découvrir → 5 musées Neringa Municipality Neringos savivaldybė · Nida · Juodkrantė Découvrir → 2 musées Elektrėnai Municipality Elektrėnų savivaldybė Découvrir → 2 musées Ignalina District Municipality Stripeikiai Découvrir → 2 musées Molėtai District Municipality Kulionys Découvrir → 2 musées Vilnius County The baroque capital, the island castle of Trakai and the forests of the east. Découvrir → 2 musées Šakiai District Municipality Šakių rajono savivaldybė Découvrir → 2 musées Šiauliai City Municipality Šiauliai Découvrir → 1 musée Alytus City Municipality Alytus Découvrir → 1 musée Druskininkai Druskininkų savivaldybė Découvrir → 1 musée Jonava District Municipality Jonavos rajono savivaldybė Découvrir → 1 musée Kaišiadorys District Municipality Kaišiadorių rajono savivaldybė Découvrir → 1 musée Kelmė District Municipality Kelmės rajono savivaldybė Découvrir → 1 musée Kėdainiai District Municipality Kėdainių rajono savivaldybė Découvrir → 1 musée Radviliškis District Municipality Šeduva Découvrir → 1 musée Trakai District Municipality Trakai Découvrir → 1 musée Ukmergė District Municipality Ukmergės rajono savivaldybė Découvrir → 1 musée Vilkaviškis District Municipality Vištyčio seniūnija Découvrir → 1 musée Vilnius District Municipality Bezdonių seniūnija Découvrir →

Villes de musées

Lieux en Lituanie

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Welcome to Lithuania

A baroque capital, an island castle, the dunes of the Curonian Spit and one of the oldest languages of Europe.

Lithuania was once the largest country in Europe, the Grand Duchy that reached from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Its language is one of the oldest living Indo-European languages, close to Sanskrit. Walk the baroque old town of Vilnius, cross the bridge to Trakai Island Castle, see the dreamlike paintings of Čiurlionis in Kaunas and the dunes of the Curonian Spit. Plan your museum days on museumtickets.com, then try cepelinai and the pink cold soup of summer.

  • 1009the name Lithuania is first written down
  • 1253Mindaugas is crowned King of Lithuania
  • 1990Lithuania is the first Soviet republic to declare independence, on 11 March
  • 2004Lithuania joins the European Union

Lithuania through the ages

A pagan kingdom, a great duchy and a nation that smuggled its own books.

  1. 1253

    King Mindaugas

    Mindaugas unites the Lithuanian lands and is crowned king; he is the only king Lithuania ever had.

    À voir à: Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
  2. 1410

    Žalgiris

    Grand Duke Vytautas and the Polish king defeat the Teutonic Order at Žalgiris (Grunwald).

    À voir à: Trakai History Museum
  3. 1569

    The Commonwealth

    Lithuania and Poland join in one state, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

    À voir à: Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
  4. 1864

    The press ban

    The Russian Empire forbids books in Lithuanian in Latin letters; book smugglers carry them in from Prussia for 40 years.

    À voir à: Lithuanian National Museum
  5. 1918

    Independence

    Lithuania declares independence on 16 February 1918; Kaunas becomes the temporary capital.

    À voir à: Vytautas the Great War Museum
  6. 1940

    Occupation

    Lithuania is occupied by the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany, then again by the Soviets; the Jewish community of Lithuania is almost destroyed.

    À voir à: Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights
  7. 1991

    January 1991

    Unarmed people defend the TV tower and parliament in Vilnius; Lithuania's independence is soon recognised.

    À voir à: Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights

Women who shaped Lithuania

A rebel leader, a writer of village life, a famous archaeologist and the first woman president.

Emilija Pliaterytė

A young noblewoman (1806–1831) who led a unit in the uprising of 1831; she is remembered as Lithuania's Joan of Arc.

Žemaitė

Julija Žymantienė (1845–1921) began writing at fifty and became the great storyteller of village life and women's lives.

À voir à: Žemaitė Memorial Museum
Marija Gimbutas

Archaeologist (1921–1994) born in Vilnius who became famous worldwide for her studies of Old Europe and its goddesses.

Dalia Grybauskaitė

In 2009 she became Lithuania's first woman president and served two terms.

Artists to look for in Lithuania

A painter of music, a sculptor and a man who collected devils.

Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis

Painter and composer (1875–1911) who painted 'sonatas' and 'fugues'; the father of Lithuanian modern art and music.

Jacques Lipchitz

Cubist sculptor born in Druskininkai in 1891, who later worked in Paris and New York.

Jonas Mekas

Lithuanian-born filmmaker and poet, the godfather of American avant-garde film; there is a centre for his work in Vilnius.

Antanas Žmuidzinavičius

Landscape painter who collected devils; his collection grew into the Devils' Museum in Kaunas.

Taste Lithuania

Zeppelins, pink soup and a cake baked on a spit.

Cepelinai

Large potato dumplings shaped like zeppelins, filled with meat or curd and served with sour cream and bacon.

Šaltibarščiai

A cold soup of beetroot and kefir, bright pink, with cucumber, dill, egg and hot potatoes on the side.

Kibinai

Crescent pastries filled with meat, from the Karaim people of Trakai.

Šakotis

A tall 'tree cake' with branches, baked layer by layer on a turning spit over the fire.

Kūčios

On Christmas Eve families share twelve meatless dishes, among them small poppy-seed biscuits with poppy milk.

Traditions and festivals through the year

Masks to chase winter, palm bundles and the shortest night.

Užgavėnės – late winter

Masked people chase winter away, a fight between fat Lašininis and thin Kanapinis, and a straw figure is burned; everyone eats pancakes.

Kaziuko mugė – late winter

The big St Casimir's fair in Vilnius old town, with crafts, wooden spoons and verbos, bundles of dried flowers for Palm Sunday.

Joninės (Rasos) – midsummer

Bonfires on the shortest night, wreaths floating on rivers and the search for the fern flower.

Song Festival – every few years, summer

Thousands of singers and dancers in Vilnius; UNESCO lists the Baltic song festivals as intangible heritage.

Kūčios – Christmas Eve

A quiet family evening of twelve dishes and old customs to tell the future.

Histoire cachée

The book smugglers

For 40 years, Lithuanian books had to be smuggled into Lithuania.

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From 1864 to 1904 the Russian Empire banned books in Lithuanian printed in Latin letters. Books were printed across the border in East Prussia, and thousands of knygnešiai, book carriers, smuggled them in on their backs, in carts and under hay. Many were caught and sent to Siberia. Lithuania remembers them with a day of their own in spring and with monuments across the country.

Conseils pour les amateurs d’art

Vilnius old town

The old town is large; plan a whole day on foot.

Trakai

Trakai is a short bus or train ride from Vilnius; go early to avoid crowds at the castle.

Curonian Spit

Take the ferry from Klaipėda to Smiltynė to reach the Sea Museum and the dunes.

Closed days

Many museums close one or two days a week; check before you go.

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