Route
Kaunas (Street of movie theatres)-Raseiniai-Radviliškis-Joniškis-Jelgava-Riga-Pasvalys-Panevėžys-Kaunas (Diplomacy in Kaunas)-Каунас (дыпламатыя)
Mileage
584 km
Duration
8 h 24 min
Countries
Latvia,Lithuania
WHAT YOU WILL SEE, HEAR, EXPERIENCE
Route stations
Kaunas (Street of movie theatres)

Laisvės alėja (Liberty Avenue) – the street of movie theatres, once movie theatres Romuva, Metropolitain, Palas, Triumf, Odeon, Glorija, Pasaka, Daina, Aušra, Forum, Kapitol were operating there. Today it is the longest pedestrian street in Eastern Europe.

Raseiniai

From the press of that time: “We are becoming the suburbs of Kaunas... Žemaičių plentas highway makes it so close that a car trip from one city to another takes no longer than a walk from Laisvės alėja to Panemunė.”

Radviliškis

A city found by the Radziwiłł family. The largest railway junction in Lithuania – even sparrows were black due to coal-fired locomotives in the city. There was not only a railway here but probably the only secret military airmail in the country. Radviliškis was the largest railway junction not only in Lithuania but also in Libau-Romny (Ukraine) railway line built 150 years ago.

Joniškis

The most direct road to Riga, special fired bricks, a stopped watch and a silent cinema.

Jelgava
Riga

From the press of that time: “Our construction work has to consolidate the national spirit of Latvia” (President Kārlis Ulmanis, 1936).

Pasvalys
Panevėžys

From the press of that time: “Everyone who comes to Panevėžys notices the lighting of the city streets. Even at midnight, you can nicely read a newspaper here. The streets of Panevėžys are even better lightened than Liberty Avenue or other central streets in Kaunas”.

Kaunas (Diplomacy in Kaunas)

“Is it possible that such a small nation as Lithuanians may dream of being independent among such great imperialists as the Russians and the Germans?” – George Nathaniel Curzon Minister of State for Foreign Affairs (Great Britain) in 1920. And 5 years later, in Kaunas, Cyril Douglas Elphick, Consul of Great Britain, openly prophesied Lithuania for no more than three years of independence.

Каунас (дыпламатыя)
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