Kaunas

Kaunas sits at the confluence of the Nemunas and Neris rivers in central Lithuania, where the country’s two largest rivers shape a low-lying urban landscape. Lithuania’s second-largest city was the nation’s temporary capital between 1920 and 1940, a period that left an exceptional concentration of interwar modernist buildings. This architecture is recognised by UNESCO in the inscription “Modernist Kaunas: Architecture of Optimism, 1919–1939.” The Old Town, with Kaunas Castle and its surviving Gothic structures, occupies the ground between the two rivers, while Laisvės alėja remains a central pedestrian thoroughfare. Discover how Kaunas connects with central Lithuania by browsing webcams nearby.

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