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K Building
Back toward the lagoon is Klaipėda’s tallest building, which, appropriately, is shaped like a ‘K’. It houses the Amberton hotel and is topped by the Viva Lavita bar.
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Klaipėda Drama Theatre
This fine neo-classical theatre, built in 1857, stages productions in Lithuanian. Hitler proclaimed the Anschluss (incorporation) of Memel into Germany from its balcony.
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Gate to Large Ghetto
A plaque and map at No 18 mark the site of the entrance to the Large Ghetto, in which 29,000 Litvaks (Lithuanian Jews) were imprisoned by the Nazis between 1941 and 1943.
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Simon Dach Fountain
Dedicated to the Klaipėda-born German poet (1605–59) who was the focus of a circle of Königsberg writers and musicians, this fountain supports a statue of Ännchen von Tharau.
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Hermann Blode Museum
This small museum, occupying a hotel dating to 1867, commemorates the famous artists that have stayed here: Thomas Mann, Ludwig Passarge and (not least) Engelbert Humperdinck.
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Sacred Art Exhibition
This small exhibition space, housed in a former Dominican chapel, displays a range of religious and sacral objects, including altarpieces, crosses, monstrances and chalices.
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MK Čiurlionis House
Inside the former home of the great artist and composer are a handful of Čiurlionis reproductions, worth taking a peek at if you can’t make it to the National Čiurlionis Art Museum in Kaunas.
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Evangelical
This graceful red-brick church dates to 1888. Its peaceful woodland cemetery is pinpricked with krikstai – crosses carved from wood to help the deceased ascend to heaven more easily.
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Liškiava Monastery
Commanding a verdant loop of the Nemunas river, 10km north of Druskininkai, this former Dominican monastery is famous for its seven rococo-style altars and its crypt with glass coffins.
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Ännchen von Tharau Statue
A replica of the 1912 statue of Little Annie of Tharau sculpted by Berlin artist Alfred Kune (the original was destroyed in WWII) and inspired by a famous Prussian wedding and love song.
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MK Čiurlionis Memorial Museum
Druskininkai has a strong connection to Lithuania’s most talented painter-musician, MK Čiurlionis; he spent his childhood in this house, which now houses bits and bobs from his life.
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Statue of Man
The statue of ‘Man’ in front of the Mykolas Žilinskas Art Gallery was modelled on Nike the Greek god of victory and caused a storm of controversy when its glorious ‘manhood’ was unveiled in 1991.
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Polder Museum
Housed in an old water-pumping station on the Vilkinė, this museum shows the basic technology with which Nemunas farmers have tried to keep the waters at bay. In Uostadvaris village, on Rusnė.
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Grand Courtyard
The gallery of the courtyard – the largest of the 13 that comprise Vilnius Universitys architectural ensemble – features plaques commemorating the founders, patrons and notaries of the University.
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Rotušės Aikštė
Soviet planners threatened to bulldoze a highway through this central square (they didnt) and its pretty 15th- and 16th-century German merchants houses and 17th-century former town hall remain.
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Military Cemetery
The heart of the Polish Marshal Jósef Piłsudski, responsible for Poland’s annexation of Vilnius in 1920, is buried here. His mother shares the grave, while the rest of his body is buried in Kraków.
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Artillery Bastion
This 17th-century fortification houses a collection of old weaponry and armour. The building was closed for long-term renovation at the time of research and it wasn’t clear when it would reopen.
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St Gertrudes Church
This late-15th-century Gothic gem is tucked in a courtyard off Laisvės alėja. Its red-brick crypt overflows with burning candles, prompting a separate candle shrine to be set up opposite the crypt entrance.
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St Teresas Church
This Carmelite church is early baroque outside and ornate late baroque inside. Underneath its entrance is a chamber for the dead, which contains some fine examples of baroque tombs, but is usually locked.
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Centre for Stateless Cultures
Vilnius University houses the worlds first Centre for Stateless Cultures, established for those cultures that lack statehood, such as Jewish, Roma and Karaimic (Karaite) cultures, in its history faculty.
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