FOCUS on KAUNAS

KAUNAS IN FOCUS

24 NOVEMBER – 26 DECEMBER 2012
Kaunas, Lithuania's second largest city and former capital, will receive much attention in VilNews now as 2012 is coming to an end. We will focus on history, business, culture, innovation, tourism and more. We would also like to hear from you who have some sort of relations to and stories to tell about Kaunas...
Write to editor@VilNews.com
 
 

Sat
24 NOV

About Kaunas,
historically and today

- Visit Kaunas during Advent!
- Highlights for visitors, Travel Portal
- Kaunas International Airport
 

Hotel:
Perkuno Namai

Wed
28 NOV

- Innovative Kaunas
- Darius Lebedzinskas (NFQ)

My Kaunas: Vladas Lasas

- Free Economic Zone
- Elinta electric cars and more
 

Sat
1 DEC

- Rich cultural life

- Čiurlionis Museum, movie etc

- Kaunas Filharmonija
- Kaunas Drama Theatre

Jazz
Old National Instruments

Wed
5 DEC

Education & Science
 

My Kaunas: Virginijus Kundrotas

- Vytautas Magnus University
- Kaunas Institute of Technology

Sat
8 DEC

Kaunas Old Town

My Kaunas: Edmundas Kolevaitis

Restaurants & Nightlife

Wed
12 DEC

Business in Kaunas

My Kaunas: Romas Bričkus,
Medical Technologies
 

Kraft Jacobs

Sat
15 DEC

Sporty Kaunas

- Basketball
- BC Žalgiris, established 1944

- Kaunas Sports Hall from 1939,  Europe’s first basketball arena
- Žalgiris Arena

Wed
19 DEC

- Political Kaunas:
- Interwar period/post WWII
- Underground Printing House

My Kaunas: Mayor interview

Interwar presidents:
Smetona, Grinius & Stulginskis

Sat
22 DEC

Christmas traditions in Kaunas

My Kaunas: Vytautas Valaitis

Christmas Tree made of cones

Wed
26 DEC

- Jewish Kaunas
- Kaunas ghetto
- The 9^th Fort

My Kaunas: Irena Veisaite (a Kaunas Ghetto survivor)

Chiune Sugihara,
an article by Boris Bakunas