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Arrival in Vilnius airport. Meet & greet by local guide

Transfer to city center with panoramic tour on the way

Check-in your hotel

Meet and greet dinner at local restaurant

Overnight at the hotel in Vilnius

DAY 1 VILNIUS // arrival

Breakfast at the hotel

Vilnius city tour – The splendid architectural blend of Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque styles makes this a wonderful city to explore. During sightseeing tour you will visit Old town, which is included to the UNESCO World Heritage. Visit Cathedral and Cathedral Square and pass by Gediminas Avenue, the Parliament and President's Palace, Vilnius University and Town Hall. Continue walking narrow old streets, visit St. Anna's Church - a gem of Gothic architecture, Gates of Dawn and St. Peter-Paul Church.

Lunch in local restaurant

Afternoon excursion to Trakai Castle. The 14th century red brick castle now houses the Art Museum. The castles of Trakai are the best known works of defensive architecture in Lithuania. The old town of Trakai, which includes the Island and the Peninsula Castles, surrounded by lakes, is one of the most impressive and most picturesque locations in Europe. Here still reside small national minority of Karaites, which is confessing Judaism. It is believed they were brought from the Crimea by the Grand Lithuanian Duke Vytautas.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Vilnius

DAY 2 VILNIUS // TRAKAI CASTLE (60 km)


Departure to Latvia. On the way – stop at the Hill of Crosses. The Hill of

Crosses, Kryžių Kalnas, located 12 kilometers north of the small industrial

city of Siauliai (pronounced shoo-lay) is the Lithuanian national pilgrimage

center. Standing upon a small hill are many hundreds of thousands of

crosses that represent Christian devotion and a memorial to Lithuanian

national identity.

Further travel to Rundale palace


Rundale Palace, the most magnificent masterpiece of baroque

architecture in the Baltic States, lies at a distance of 70 km from Riga. It

was built in the first part of the 18th century by the Italian architect F. B.

Rastrelli, the baroque genius from Italy who created many of St.

Petersburg’s finest buildings including the Winter Palace. The

professionally renovated palace interiors are decorated with authentic 18th

cent. furniture, paintings and china. The most impressive are the Golden

Hall, the White Hall, the bedroom of the Duke of Courland Johan Ernst

Biron. The palace boasts a beautiful French-style park.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Riga

DAY 3 VILNIUS // HILL OF CROSSES // RUNDALE // RIGA (375 km)


Riga City Tour - a medieval Hanseatic town, will include St. Peter's

Cathedral from whose steeple will be the best views in the city, Riga castle

with its three wonderful museums, Dome Cathedral, which boasts one of

the world’s largest pipe organs, and the old Guild houses. You will see why

Riga came to be known as one of Europe's leading exponents of the late

19th and early 20th century architectural style of Art Nouveau. The, Riga

boasts Europe's greatest concentration of Jugendstil (German Art

Nouveau) buildings. An architectural historian will highlight details of the

finest city facades.


Afternoon visit of the beach side. Jurmala is the place to enjoy sea

breeze, sun, nature, architecture and cultural life. It has 150-year-old resort

traditions and has become the largest resort area in the Baltic’s. The look

of Jurmala since 19th century has been characterized by its wooden

architecture, cottage-style buildings and resort centers. Romantic streets

and wooden cottages surrounded by pine trees also nowadays create the

vision of the olden days. Stroll along Jomas Street- the most popular

pedestrian walkway with its many little restaurants and diverse

entertainment. Visit city’s white-sand beach area, which is still largest draw

to Jurmala.


DAY 4 RIGA // JURMALA (50 km)


Morning visit of Riga Central Market - since 1995, the Central Market

has been a joint stock company with 100% of its shares owned by Riga

City Council. It occupies 72.3 thousand square meters of space and has

over 3000 trade stands, each 1 to 100 square meters in size. The market

has five pavilions in the historical buildings – they were originally used as

Zeppelin hangars. Every day at the Central Market you can buy fresh

vegetables, dairy produce, meat, fish and grocery in the pavilions. There

are also open areas, manufactured goods market, night market and

Farmer’s day-and-night market.


Afternoon visit of Open Air Museum. Located at a distance of 14 km

from the centre of Riga on the banks of the picturesque Lake Jugla. The

museum was started in 1924 and now it is one of the oldest open air

museums in Europe. Old houses, household articles of peasants,

fishermen and craftsmen have been brought there from all regions of

Latvia. There is even an inn, a mill and several churches. In the exhibition

hall you can find exhibitions of applied art. The museum has 107 buildings

on its territory all in all (about 100 ha).


DAY 5 RIGA // OPEN AIR MUSEUM (20 km)


Morning departure to Estonia. On the way stop in Gauja National Park

and visit of Sigulda and Turaida. One of the most picturesque towns in

Latvia - Sigulda, often called the Latvian Switzerland, is located about 50

km from Riga in the Gauja River valley. Sigulda is situated in the Gauja

National Park and is known as the most popular tourist and leisure

destination as well as a famous winter sports resort in Latvia because of its

bob-sleigh track and the down-hill skiing routes. The Turaida Museum

Reserve is the historical center of Turaida and comprises archeological,

historical and art monuments that tell us about the events that have taken

place since the 11th century.


Second stop in Parnu, the best known Estonian resort and also a

Hanseatic city, a harbor city and a university city. The sleepy rhythm of

Pärnu changes completely when the flag of the Estonian summer capital

starts flying high on the summer equinox – life on the beach, dozens of

festivals, night clubs and the big party crowd that have moved here. The

city is very charming and it contains a nice 19th century shopping district.

While walking in the city enjoy its parks and the streets.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Tallinn

DAY 6 RIGA // SIGULDA // TURAIDA // PARNU // TALLINN (355 km)


City tour of Tallinn, a picturesque old city, where whole districts date

back to the Middle Ages. You will visit the Old Town with its quaint narrow

streets and beautiful merchants' houses exemplifying the best of Gothic

architecture. The tour includes Toompea Castle, the 13th century Dome

church, the 19th century Russian orthodox Cathedral of Alexander Nevskij,

the 15th century town Hall square, the Old Guild built to celebrate Tallinn's

membership in the Hanseatic League, and St. Olaf's church. On Driving

part visit Tallinn’s suburbs and Song Festival Grounds, St Brigittes

monastery and Pirita area.


Afternoon tour of Kadriorg Palace. The palace, constructed as a gift by

Peter the Great to his wife Catherine I in the 1720s, is an excellent

example of Baroque architecture. The Foreign Art Museum of the Kadriorg

Palace displays paintings, sculptures, graphic art and applied art of

Western Europe and the Russia from the 16 -20 century.

Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Tallinn

DAY 7 TALLINN // KADRIORG


Free day accordingly to flight schedule

Transfer to the airport

Flight home

DAY 8 TALLINN // departure

Contact or visit us

Vilnius Office A.Mickeviciaus Street 2,

Vilnius, LT08119, Lithuania

Tel.: +370 5 2609375

Fax: +370 5 2610631

E-mail: [email protected]

Riga Office 13/15 Kr.Barona Street, Riga,

LV-1011, Latvia

Tel.: +371 6 7228428

Fax: +371 6 7228337


Tallinn Office Raua Street 14, Tallinn

10124, ESTONIA

Tel: +372 6 640252

Fax: +372 6 640251


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