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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In Vilnius","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"The largest baroque old town in eastern Europe, a self-declared artists' republic across the river with its own constitution, and a caf\u00e9 culture out of all proportion to the city's size.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1304013","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"1323 | First mention of the city in writing\r\n1 April | Uzupis independence day, when the border posts go up\r\n~40 | Languages the Uzupis constitution is displayed in","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"Baroque, green, and stranger than it first appears","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"Vilnius has the largest baroque old town in eastern Europe, UNESCO-listed and remarkably intact \u2014 narrow streets, courtyards opening off courtyards, and something like forty churches within walking distance of each other.\r\n\r\nAcross a small river is Uzupis, a district that declared itself an independent republic in 1997. It has a constitution mounted on mirrored plaques in dozens of languages, an army of a dozen or so people, and a national day on 1 April when border guards stamp passports. It began as a squatted artists' quarter and has since gentrified, but the joke has outlasted the circumstances that produced it.\r\n\r\nThe darker history is present and well handled. Vilnius was called the Jerusalem of the North and had one of the most important Jewish communities in Europe; around ninety-five per cent of Lithuania's Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, most of them at Paneriai in the forest outside the city.\r\n\r\nIt is green \u2014 over forty per cent of the city is parks and forest \u2014 and cheap by EU standards. Three days.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in | Airport 20 minutes by bus or train, about \u20ac1. Buses from Riga 4 hours\r\nGetting around | Buses and trolleybuses about \u20ac1 with a card. The old town is walkable\r\nCurrency | Euro. Lithuania joined in 2015\r\nUzupis | Free to walk. The constitution plaques are on Paupio street\r\nPaneriai | The Holocaust memorial site is 20 minutes by train, and free\r\nThe Belarusian border | About 30 km away. Not a casual crossing \u2014 check current guidance","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"A baroque core, a republic across the river, and a Soviet-era district for value.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"13","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"","hw_hub_city_areas":"Old Town | First-timers | The UNESCO centre: the churches, the courtyards, the bars and most beds. Walkable throughout. | 54.6790 | 25.2870 |  | \nUzupis | Artists and atmosphere | Across the Vilnia: galleries, courtyard bars, the constitution wall and a village feel. | 54.6810 | 25.2980 |  | \nNaujamiestis | Local and value | West of the centre: independent bars, a converted factory district and cheaper rooms. | 54.6840 | 25.2620 |  | \nZverynas | Green and quiet | A wooden-housed residential district across the Neris, ten minutes from the centre. | 54.6890 | 25.2540 |  | ","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in Vilnius","hw_hub_city_do_body":"Walk the old town, and go into the courtyards. The pleasure here is that almost every archway leads somewhere \u2014 a second courtyard, a garden, a workshop. Vilnius University, founded in 1579, is a warren of thirteen connected courtyards and costs a couple of euros to walk through.\r\n\r\nSt Anne's is the church to see: late Gothic, built of thirty-three different shapes of brick, and the one Napoleon reportedly said he would like to carry back to Paris in his palm.\r\n\r\nGediminas Tower on the hill has the view over the roofs, reached by a funicular or a short climb.\r\n\r\nUzupis is free and takes an hour. Find the constitution plaques on Paupio street \u2014 articles include the right of a dog to be a dog and the right to be unhappy \u2014 and the Uzupis angel on the square.\r\n\r\nThe Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights occupies the former KGB headquarters, with the cells and execution chamber preserved in the basement. It is about \u20ac6 and it is not a light visit.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"The courtyards | Free, and the real pleasure of the old town\r\nSt Anne's Church | Late Gothic, in thirty-three shapes of brick\r\nUzupis | Free. A republic with a constitution on the wall\r\nThe former KGB headquarters | About \u20ac6, with the basement preserved","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in Vilnius","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in Vilnius","hw_hub_city_free_body":"Uzupis is free, including the constitution plaques, the angel and the courtyard galleries.\r\n\r\nThe old town, the cathedral and most of the forty-odd churches cost nothing to enter.\r\n\r\nThe Hill of Three Crosses is a free climb with the best view of the city, and the Bernardine Gardens below it are free and large.\r\n\r\nPaneriai, twenty minutes by train, is free. Between 1941 and 1944 around seventy thousand people, most of them Jews from Vilnius, were murdered in pits in this forest. The memorial and small museum are quiet and plainly presented, and it is the most important thing you can do near this city.\r\n\r\nThe Literatu street wall, covered in small artworks dedicated to writers connected with Vilnius, is free and easy to miss.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"Uzupis | Free, constitution and all\r\nHill of Three Crosses | Free climb, and the best view\r\nPaneriai | Free, twenty minutes out, and necessary\r\nLiteratu street | A wall of small works for writers, free","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in Vilnius","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in Vilnius","hw_hub_city_food_body":"Cheap and heavier than you expect. A main is \u20ac9 to \u20ac16 and the lunch specials are less.\r\n\r\nCepelinai are the national dish: large potato dumplings stuffed with meat, served with sour cream and bacon, and named after zeppelins because of the shape. They are extremely filling and one portion defeats most people.\r\n\r\nSaltibarsciai is the summer dish and the one you will photograph \u2014 a cold beetroot and kefir soup in an improbable bright pink, served with hot potatoes on the side.\r\n\r\nKibinai, baked pastries filled with lamb, come from the Karaim community in Trakai and are sold throughout the city for \u20ac2 to \u20ac3.\r\n\r\nLithuania has an unusual farmhouse beer tradition, kaimiskas, made with methods that largely died out elsewhere in Europe. Look for it rather than the industrial lagers. A beer is \u20ac3 to \u20ac5.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Cepelinai | Potato dumplings named after zeppelins. Enormous\r\nSaltibarsciai | Bright pink cold beetroot soup, in summer\r\nKibinai | \u20ac2\u20133 lamb pastries from the Karaim tradition\r\nFarmhouse beer | A survival found almost nowhere else. \u20ac3\u20135","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for Vilnius","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in Vilnius","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Better than the size of the city suggests, and cheap. The old town has the bars, Uzupis has the courtyard ones, and Naujamiestis west of the centre has the converted industrial spaces and the best of the current scene.\r\n\r\nA beer is \u20ac3 to \u20ac5 and cocktails \u20ac7 to \u20ac11.\r\n\r\nThe craft and farmhouse beer scene is genuinely interesting \u2014 Lithuanian brewing preserved practices that disappeared elsewhere, and several bars in the city specialise in it.\r\n\r\nVilnius has a large student population and term time from September to June fills the bars.\r\n\r\nSummer moves everything outdoors: courtyard terraces, the riverbanks and the Bernardine Gardens, with light until nearly eleven in June.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Naujamiestis | Converted industrial spaces and the current scene\r\nFarmhouse beer bars | A genuine specialism here\r\nPrices | Beer \u20ac3\u20135, cocktails \u20ac7\u201311\r\nJune evenings | Light until nearly eleven","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for Vilnius","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around Vilnius","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"Buses and trolleybuses cost about \u20ac1 with a Vilniecio card bought at a kiosk, more if paid on board. The old town is walkable end to end in twenty-five minutes.\r\n\r\nValidate your ticket on boarding. Inspectors work the network.\r\n\r\nThe airport is twenty minutes away and both a bus and a train run into the centre for about \u20ac1, which is among the cheapest airport transfers in Europe.\r\n\r\nTrains reach Trakai in thirty minutes for about \u20ac2 and Kaunas in an hour for about \u20ac7. Buses reach Riga in four hours and Warsaw in about eight.\r\n\r\nBolt is widely used and cheap for taxis.\r\n\r\nCycling is good and the riverbank paths run well out of the city.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"About \u20ac1 a ride | With a Vilniecio card from a kiosk\r\nAirport | Twenty minutes, about \u20ac1 by bus or train\r\nTrakai | Thirty minutes by train, about \u20ac2\r\nKaunas | An hour by train, about \u20ac7","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for Vilnius","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What Vilnius costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Cheap for the EU. Dorms are \u20ac11 to \u20ac25, a main \u20ac9 to \u20ac16, and a beer \u20ac3 to \u20ac5.\r\n\r\nA day is \u20ac32 to \u20ac60.\r\n\r\nLithuania uses the euro, so prices are directly comparable and there is no exchange involved.\r\n\r\nMost of what matters is free: the old town, Uzupis, the churches, the Hill of Three Crosses and Paneriai. The paid sites are a few euros each.\r\n\r\nLunch specials \u2014 most restaurants do a set midday menu \u2014 run \u20ac6 to \u20ac9 and are the main saving.\r\n\r\nCards work almost everywhere including buses through the app, though small bars and markets sometimes prefer cash.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u20ac11\u201325\r\nA day, all in | \u20ac32\u201360\r\nLunch specials | \u20ac6\u20139 at most restaurants\r\nAlmost everything free | Old town, Uzupis, churches, Paneriai","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for Vilnius","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in Vilnius","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"Vilnius is a safe city with low violent crime and visitors are rarely troubled.\r\n\r\nPetty theft happens around the station, in the old town in summer and in busy bars at weekends, at ordinary levels.\r\n\r\nThe area immediately around the bus and train stations is scruffier at night without being dangerous.\r\n\r\nWinter brings ice on pavements, roof ice falling into the street and about seven hours of daylight in December.\r\n\r\nThe Belarusian border is roughly thirty kilometres away. It is not a routine crossing for visitors, the regional situation has been tense in recent years, and you should check your own foreign ministry's current guidance before any plan that involves approaching or crossing it.\r\n\r\nAt Paneriai, this is a place where tens of thousands of people were murdered. Behave accordingly: no photographs of yourself at the pits, and keep to the paths. Emergency number is 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Winter ice | On pavements and falling from roofs\r\nThe Belarusian border | 30 km away, and not a casual crossing\r\nPaneriai | A mass killing site. No photographs of yourself there\r\nPetty theft | Around the station and in busy bars","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for Vilnius","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from Vilnius","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"An island castle, a memorial in the forest, and a hill covered in crosses.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Trakai | 30 minutes | Train, about \u20ac2 | A red-brick castle on an island in a lake, reached by footbridge, with Karaim kibinai sold in the town. |  | 1304008\nHill of Crosses | 3 hours | Bus via Siauliai, about \u20ac15 | A mound covered in hundreds of thousands of crosses, repeatedly bulldozed by Soviet authorities and repeatedly rebuilt overnight. |  | 1304009\nKaunas | 1 hour | Train, about \u20ac7 | The interwar capital, with modernist architecture and prices below Vilnius. |  | 1304010","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from Vilnius","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May to September for light and terraces. Winter is cold, dark and cheap.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. Vilnius is inland and continental, so winters bite harder than on the Baltic coast, and daylight runs from about seven hours in December to over seventeen in June.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | -2 | 2 | Freezing and dark. Cheapest, with about seven hours of light\r\nFebruary | -1 | 2 | Cold. Snow and very few visitors\r\nMarch | 4 | 3 | Cold but brightening. Kaziukas craft fair early in the month\r\nApril | 12 | 3 | Thaw. Uzupis independence day on the 1st\r\nMay | 18 | 5 | Excellent. Terraces open and the courtyards in use\r\nJune | 21 | 5 | The best month. Light until nearly eleven\r\nJuly | 23 | 5 | Warmest and busiest\r\nAugust | 22 | 5 | Warm and slightly quieter\r\nSeptember | 17 | 5 | Superb. Term restarts and the weather holds\r\nOctober | 11 | 4 | Autumn in the parks. Good value\r\nNovember | 4 | 2 | Dark and grey. The hardest month\r\nDecember | -1 | 4 | Christmas market on Cathedral Square and a famously good tree","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"A republic declaring independence on April Fools' Day, and a craft fair in March.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in Vilnius","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/lithuania\/vilnius\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Uzupis Independence Day | 1 April | Uzupis | The republic puts up border posts and stamps passports, the president appears, and the district spends the day being a country. Free and entirely in earnest about not being serious. |  | \nKaziukas Fair | Early March | Old town | A craft fair dating to the seventeenth century, filling the old town streets for a weekend with a great deal of woven and carved everything. |  | \nChristmas market | Late November to early January | Cathedral Square | A market and a city Christmas tree that has become an annual design event in its own right. |  | \nSong Festival | Every four years, summer | Vingis Park | Massed choirs in the Baltic tradition, on UNESCO's intangible heritage list. |  | \nCulture Night | June | Citywide | A free one-night festival with events across courtyards, churches and galleries. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in euros \u2014 Lithuania uses them.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"Lithuania is in the eurozone, so these are the prices you will actually pay. The doing line is low because so much here is free.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 11 | 9 | 2 | 2\r\nMiddle of the road | 22 | 20 | 3 | 12\r\nComfortable | 42 | 35 | 6 | 28","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u20ac","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in Vilnius","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"A good scene in and around the old town, at low EU prices. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in Vilnius","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/lithuania\/vilnius\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"Vilnius travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"What is Uzupis? | A district across the Vilnia river that declared itself an independent republic in 1997. It has a constitution mounted on mirrored plaques in dozens of languages \u2014 including the right of a dog to be a dog and the right to be unhappy \u2014 a small army, and a national day on 1 April when border guards stamp passports. It started as a squatted artists' quarter and has gentrified since, but the joke has outlived its origins.\r\nShould I go to Paneriai? | If you can, yes. Between 1941 and 1944 around seventy thousand people, most of them Jews from Vilnius, were murdered in pits in this forest twenty minutes from the city. It is free, plainly presented and quiet, and it is the most important thing near this city. Treat it as a memorial rather than a sight \u2014 no photographs of yourself at the pits.\r\nWhat should I eat? | Cepelinai, the potato dumplings stuffed with meat and named after zeppelins, which are enormous and defeat most people. In summer, saltibarsciai \u2014 a cold beetroot and kefir soup in an implausible bright pink, served with hot potatoes. Kibinai, lamb pastries from the Karaim community in Trakai, are \u20ac2 to \u20ac3 and the best cheap snack.\r\nIs the beer worth paying attention to? | Yes, unusually. Lithuania preserved farmhouse brewing practices \u2014 kaimiskas \u2014 that largely died out elsewhere in Europe, and several bars in Vilnius specialise in them. Ask for the Lithuanian farmhouse styles rather than the industrial lagers.\r\nHow cheap is it? | Cheap for the EU. Dorms \u20ac11 to \u20ac25, a main \u20ac9 to \u20ac16, a beer \u20ac3 to \u20ac5, and a day around \u20ac32 to \u20ac60. Lunch specials at \u20ac6 to \u20ac9 are the main saving, and most of the city's highlights are free.\r\nIs Trakai worth a day? | Half a day. Thirty minutes by train for about \u20ac2, to a red-brick castle on an island in a lake reached by footbridge. Eat kibinai while you are there \u2014 the Karaim community that brought them settled in Trakai in the fourteenth century.\r\nHow close is Belarus? | About thirty kilometres. It is not a routine crossing for visitors, the regional situation has been tense in recent years, and you should check your own foreign ministry's current guidance before any plan involving it.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare Vilnius hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. Then meet the people already there in the app.","hw_hub_city_cta_buttons":"Find hostels in Vilnius | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/lithuania\/vilnius\/\r\nGet the app | https:\/\/hostelworld.onelink.me\/IdiK\/f5a50nhd","hw_hub_city_newsletter_title":"Get the good stuff monthly","hw_hub_city_newsletter_body":"New city guides, deals and route ideas. 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