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“I would like to be glad that despite the difficult years in the past, the Lithuanian tourism community has prepared a lot of news and creative projects to interest even the most experienced traveler. We have received news about new pedestrian and bicycle trails, museums renovated, important historical objects restored, unusual travel routes actively planned to open in spring and summer, ”says Snieguolė Valiaugaitė, Content Project Manager at Keliauk Lietuva.
Although the list of attractions and tourist news will continue to expand, the Travel Tourist Information Centers in Lithuania and Lithuania already invite you to familiarize yourself with 11 local tourism news that will surprise travelers in 2021:
1. Industrial tourism experiences in Panevėžys
You say you have really seen everything in Lithuania? This year, the city of Panevėžys is ready to present its new product, industrial tourism, which has already received much attention and praise, even more actively. Travelers thirsty for unexpected experiences will be able to learn about the city’s history and heritage by visiting flax, soap, glass, canning or sugar factories, a meat factory, or a windmill that once ground grain.
2. Kurhaus basin
Photo by Mindaugas Surblis / Palanga Kurhaus
The symbol of the Palanga resort – Palanga Kurhaus, which was one of the resort’s first entertainment and recreation buildings, was fully revived in Palanga. On the ground floor there is already an amphitheater room adapted to the theater, as well as an ornate representative space for events. In the latter, the interior of the period of residence of the Counts Tiškevičius has been restored, already quietly awaiting the gazes of curious visitors.
3. Record Player Museum
For music lovers: afternoon at the Turntable Museum in the Biržai district, A. Podėnienė’s rural tourism farm. In 2021, travelers will be invited to participate in the educational program “Turntable Stories and Music to Tea”, during which they will see an impressive collection of record players collected from different eras and will have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the ritual of listening to vinyl records.
Four. A walk along the seabed
Indre Bungardaitė / 15min photo / Public villa reservation
In Jurbarkas, visitors will find a new route surrounded by nature, inviting them on a 17 km journey through the Karšuva forest. The route starts right next to the historic Lithuanian town of Viešvilė and dips further towards the edge of the Viešvilė reserve. Here you can see what nature looks like untouched by human hand, see elk, red deer, wild boar. Going further, you can climb the highest continental dunes in Lithuania. This – Kaskalnis Reserve. It is true that there was once a seabed here, glaciers sliding and forming this special landscape of the trail. Get directions here.
5. Vilkaviškis will invite tourists to bake homemade bread
The Vilkaviškis community started implementing a large-scale project “Made in Vilkaviškis” in 2020 and already this year will invite travelers from all over Lithuania to get to know the city through local products: visit a bakery education and take home a bar of hot bread; participate in a butter shake lesson; drink herbal tea; At the birthplace of Jonas Basanavičius, to learn how to make deep coffee and of course to taste fresh, mild-flavored ice creams delivered from the Art Galcio ice cream factory to the nearby shop.
6. Renovated interwar cinema “Romuva”
A Aleksandravičius, Kaunas IN./ Romuva Cinema
At the beginning of this summer, after reconstruction, it is planned to open one of the most important objects of modernist architecture in Kaunas: the historical cinema “Romuva”. According to the tourism experts of the city of Kaunas, the film screenings will return to the cinema. On the occasion of the opening, it is planned to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the first film made in Lithuania.
7. 2021 Lithuanian capital of culture, Neringa, will become an island of culture
The Lithuanian Capital of Culture returns to the water and this year Neringa takes over this title from Trakai. By presenting the ambitious “Island of Culture” project, the resort in 2021, having overcome the waves of the pandemic, will invite travelers to discover peace and inspiration and immerse themselves in new cultural experiences. The “Purity” music, visual installations and art of light project, created by composer and musician Andrius Mamontovas and visual installation creator Jolita Vaitkutė, will also start in May. It is already known that an international team of artists gathered in Neringa during the summer will perform GF Händel’s baroque opera “Eyes and Galatea”.
8. A unique coworking and co-living space Tech Spa will open its doors in Druskininkai
Druskininkai has long acquired the status of a tourist resort and a perfect place to relax, but now it will be possible to temporarily relocate your workplace to this city. Already at the end of the first quarter of this year, the unique cooperation space Tech Spa will open its doors here.
The Tech Spa concept will allow you to enjoy the perfect balance between work and leisure, working in a collaborative space and living in comfortable apartments in the city center. It will be an unknown and unique place for business trips in Lithuania.
9. In Nida – new recreational infrastructure
Photo by Renata Kilinskaitė / Nida
This year, Nida travelers will be greeted with even more renewal: Urbo Hill will invite you on long, romantic walks in nature, beginning at the beginning of the year with renovated trails, sight-seeing windows, and rest benches. Cycling trips and walks in Nida will also be much more enjoyable: a 1.7 km long trail has been organized on the crest of the protective dune, which is also adapted for people with disabilities. Follow the news here.
10. Bird watching hut already and In Plunge
Photo by G. Norvaišas / Birdwatching place by Lake Ilgis
In recent years, birding has received a lot of attention from Lithuanian and foreign travelers, so it is not surprising that in 2020, more and more birding houses started to develop in the forests. One of them is in Plungė, in the Samogitian National Park, but only this year it begins to receive visitors.
eleven. Bent beaver
TIC Skuodas Photo / Leaning Castor
This year, Skuodas will invite you to visit “Lenkimų beabryne”, which stretches for about 3 kilometers through the Margininkai botanical-zoological reserve. This route will surprise you with its spectacular beauty of pine trees and vegetation, and the gravel / stone path to the beaver headquarters will not cause any inconvenience to those who want to travel both on foot and by bicycle.
“Traveling in Lithuania” recalls that a strict quarantine is currently being announced in the country. Therefore, residents are encouraged to lean at home, carefully plan future trips, and travel later. Here you can find even more local tourism news from 2021.
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