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Strengthening Cultural Ties: A Working Meeting Between Greece and Lithuania

Victoria Udrea

Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni hosted a working meeting with Lithuania’s Ambassador Lina Skerstonaite, focusing on cultural collaboration between the two countries.

8 months ago

Top 9 Literature Festivals in Eastern Europe to Visit in 2025

Victoria Udrea

These top 9 Eastern European literature festivals in 2025 offer unique cultural experiences and celebrate books, ideas, and conversations.

10 months ago

Augustow Canal Celebrates its Bicentenary

Iorgos Pappas

The Augustow Canal will mark its 200th anniversary on June 9, 2024, although bicentenary celebrations were also held last year.

1 year ago

ADVENTUR 2024, Lithuania’s International Exhibition for Tourism, Scheduled for January 26-28

Iorgos Pappas

ADVENTUR 2024, is scheduled from the 26th to the 28th of January

1 year ago

Lithuania Publishes List of Countries for Compulsory COVID Quarantine

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Lithuania officials have published a list of countries, the citizens of which will need to remain isolated for 14 days upon their arrival in Lithuania, beginning July 20th.

5 years ago

The Baltic States Create Europe’s First “Travel Bubble”

Aleksandr Shatskih

Europe’s Baltic states have joined to create the eurozone’s first “travel bubble” in order to restart the zone’s tourism post COVID-19.

5 years ago

Adventur 2017: Taste the World. Taste Lithuania.

Mihaela Lica Butler

Adventur 2017, the only international exhibition of tourism and travel in Lithuania, is at its fifth edition next January.

8 years ago

Tourists Get to Relive War & Peace in Vilnius

Aleksandr Shatskih

For interested visitors to Lithuania, a new tourist attraction opened in Vilnius last month, designed to give British tourists the opportunity to visit the places used for filming the new series from BBC. The series War and Peace used many locations in Lithuania to film the award winning episodes, and now tourists get to visit the locations.

9 years ago

Air Lituanica gets there on time – Guaranteed

Aleksandr Shatskih

Air Lituanica wants to become Vilnius Airport’s most punctual air carrier. The airline has announced a guaranteed on-time arrival program that offers free flights to passengers whose flights are late.

11 years ago

Tõlluste Manor on Saaremaa Island Changes Hands

Aleksandr Shatskih

In hotel news from Lithuania, the historic Tõlluste manor house in Saaremaa Island has been transferred to the Estonian subsidiary of Natura Siberica, a Russian-owned natural cosmetics brand.

11 years ago

Lithuania’s Vilija Mataciunaite Needs “Attention”

Aleksandr Shatskih

With Eurovision 2014 right around the corner Lithuania feels they’re about due. The Baltic nation’s 27 year old singing sensation Vilija Mataciunaite hopes she can bring it home with her song Attention.

11 years ago

Lithuania Aims to Build the Largest Facebook Inspired “Like” Sculpture in the World

Aleksandr Shatskih

The Vilnius Tourism Information Centre recently announced that a new campaign aiming to promote interesting discoveries about Lithuania was launched on five important social media networks: Facebook, Google+, Vkontakte, Twitter and Youtube. The campaign called Like’able Lithuania will last one year, and, at its end, Summer 2014, Lithuania will unveil the biggest Facebook inspired “Like” […]

11 years ago

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