Top 10 sights in Siauliai region / day
Šiauliai
Baltic Culture Future Center “Baltic Way”
Lithuania and Latvia The first interactive center of the Baltic culture promotion. Baltic history, culture and lifestyle are discovered with modern technology and copies of exhibits. Various games and attractions take visitors to a magical ancestor in the world with many unknown items today, a significant symbol and an interesting fact. Everyone will be delighted to try a hand in a white position or stop the moment in a colorful photo session. For those who want to get to know the Baltic culture even better, we invite you to participate in educational classes.
« Ruth » Chocolate Museum
The Chocolate Museum opened in 2012 is the only museum of its kind in Lithuania. Here you will be trimmed with a tempting aroma of sweets, you will be able to explore the history of chocolate, which extends for 4 thousand years in the past, and the details of the foundation of the sweets factory « Ruth ». At the Chocolate Museum, everyone can become real chocolate masters – here are sweet educational chocolate workshops, thematic tastings and excursions.
There is a café « Ruta » in the museum building, which is a saturated place for chocolate scent. You can enjoy unforgettable desserts and freshly roasted coffee!
Close the most sweetest experience by visiting the Ruth company store – we have more than 500 different products in our assortment, and we believe that everyone will find the best taste for them!
Sunny Šiauliai Boulevard
It is the part of Vilnius Street, which has shops, cafes, artwork and half a hundred interesting objects. On the Boulevard, five fountains, constantly changing street artworks and sculptures are attracted to passers -by.
Nowhere else, except Siauliai, there are no environmental advertising accents – « Shoe », « Snake », « Books », etc. These are advertising sculptures that represented the shops.
Almost all of the residents of Siauliai Street « Zoo » – snake, cancer, chameleon, monkey, rooster, bull, swallow – live on Boulevard.
If you want to look at the boulevard from above, the Photo Museum Terrace is perfect for it. It overlooks the pride of the city – Boulevard, Cathedral and Tilzhe the street.
The intersection of two streets, in the very center of the city, has been counting the city clock « Cock » for half a centuries. There is a tactile map of solar objects right next door.
Sculpture “Iron Fox”
The Lithuanian record book states that it is the largest sculpture of the animal: the weight of the sculpture – almost 7 tons, the length – about 15 meters, the height of 6.6 meters. The iron fox in the heart (1.20 m high and 0.90 m wide) has a capsule with a copper plate in our offspring. « Iron Fox » is the work of Siauliai Designer Viļi Purona in memory of the millennium of Lithuania’s name.
Šiauliai
Courts – a city of tradition, taste and culture
Kurp – the pearl of Šiauliai district, famous for the position of pottery and the sweet « Kursen Roll ». Visit the Kursen Manor, the only wooden architecture manor preserved in Lithuania, which houses the Center for Ethnic Culture and Traditional Crafts. Here you can take part in ceramic classes and taste the famous roulette. Walk the 262 -meter -long pedestrian bridge over the Venta leading to the manor park. The city center has Lauryno Ivinska Square with a monument to this educator, but near the St. John the Baptist Church. Kuršuinu – a great place to get to know Lithuanian traditions and enjoy cultural recreation.
Radviliskis
Museum of Historical Technology Sheduva
When everyone was intoxicated from the images of the Chernobyl series and told, no one knew and thought that even several of the cars on the screen had come from Sheduva! The exhibition of the Museum of History Technology of the Sheduvan History is truly like a time machine – it takes you to grandparents in the garages, where old Lada cars were standing and glittering. The first free Lithuanian cars are reminded of the then wild times, and the police cars on the news are now history. Foreign luxury, which was once only seen in films, has also come to Sheduva. BMW, Ferrari and heavy little can be placed in one garage.
Mobile Historical Technology Exhibition can move from its location at any time; Its uniqueness lies not in frozen exhibits, but in life. More than 60 historic equipment units have been exhibited in Sheduva.
The museum is open on Saturdays.
Celmet area
Titry Wind Church and Bernardian Monastery Ensemble
The unique ensemble, according to its artistic and architectural style combination, is an original art monument not only in Lithuania but also in the context of the art of the northeast of Europe. According to many art historians, the tittal ensemble is an inexhaustible repository of treasures of history, culture, architectural and artistic monuments. The high architectural value is the Titish Wind Church and the Monastery ensemble, which, due to the diversity of architectural styles, is included in the European Union cultural program « Baroque Road ».
Pakrojoja
S. Ushinsky Memorial Room is in the Fire Society building
The building of the Fire Society was built in 1928. Cultural events and exhibitions are organized today in the renovated building, and it also houses prof. Memorial room of S. Ushinsk (Stasys Usinsk), as well as interactive exposure. This year marks the 120th anniversary of his birth.
Stone district
Venta Regional Park Visitor Center
Venta Visitor Center – A place where prehistory meets modern technology. In the Modern Exhibition Hall, you will see fossils from the dinosaurs era – ammonites, squid ancestors’ shells and other unique findings. Nature sounds will allow you to feel like traveling in time. Take part in educational activities: from fossil hunting to stories about historical personalities of Akmene County. The center is available to all age groups – from children to history enthusiasts. Tap the prehistor with your own hands and discover the secrets of nature right here!
Joniškis area
Žagares oss and Žagares 2.
At Žagare is the most spectacular Oos in Lithuania, a narrow rope, formed from the sand and the gravel ice age. If you travel along this 3.6 km route, you will be able to admire the fabulous nature, watch the birds, animals and insects, and stay in the camp. On the way, gazebos, viewing towers, information stands, campfire sites, basketball court, toilet, parking lots, dressing cabs and others. One of the stops of the Jagare Osa cognitive trail – Jagares 2. The mound, the locals call it Mount Zvelgaichia. Teika reports that there was a 13th -century legendary Kunigaiš Zvelgaičia Castle on the mound.
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