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The old town of Vilnius, Lithuania, by night.
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The old town of Vilnius, Lithuania, by night.
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A stand
with traditional Lithuanian craft on a street in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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The Curonian Spit is one of largest accumulative landforms
in the Baltic Sea. The site is inscribed onto the World Heritage List
as an international Russian-Lithuanian cultural complex.
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The Curonian Spit: the main terrain elements are comprised of dune complexes,
which are among the highest in Europe, stretching along the peninsula
for over 70 km.
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The Castle of Old Trakai.
Trakai, the ancient capital of Lithuania, is one of the oldest Lithuanian
settlements.
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View of Klaipeda,
Lithuania, the third largest town in the country. It is located on the
very southern seashore of the Baltic Sea, where the Kursiu Marios lagoon
is connected with the sea. In the background there is the old sailing
vessel "Meridians" at anchor in the town's canal.
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Kaunas is the
second largest industrial, scientific and cultural centre of Lithuania.
Kaunas is also a university town.
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Lithuanians
baking a giant pancake at the Mardi Gras carnival in the streets of
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The market in the village of Rudamina.
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Two
Lithuanian children doing wool-carding in the historical open-air museum
of Kernave.
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A basket-market
in Pivasiunai.
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Picture of Pilies Street in the Old Town of Vilnius, Lithuania.
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The
Mazeikiai Oil Company in Lithuania.With a turnover that is beginning
to approach 1 billion dollars a year, it is the largest company in the
Baltic states. Mazeikiai Oil has got an oil refinery, a pipeline and
an oil import-export terminal.
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The
inside of the oil terminal at Klaipedos Nafta in Klaipeda, Lithuania.
The company was founded as a joint Lithuania-USA venture in 1994. Since
1995 they have been carrying out the reconstruction of the terminal.
The total value of the reconstruction works amounts to appr.130 millions
USD. ABN AMRO Bank is the main creditor of the project. Special attention
in the enterprise is given to nature protection, fire-fighting and application
of progressive transportation technologies of oil and chemical products.
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The state-owned
Klaipeda Port in Lithuania that connects the main transportation corridors
between the East and the west. It is the most northern ice-free Baltic
seaport. Harbour waters do not freeze even at -25 degree centigrade.
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The Hill of Crosses
near Siauliai, the fourth largest city in Lithuania. For many centuries,
the Hill of Crosses has been the centre of pilgrimage. When Soviet authorities
took power in Lithuania after World War II they tried to remove the
crosses on many occasions. But the crosses were always secretly replaced
by people overnight. Today, more than 50,000 crosses are a testimony
of the spirit of the Lithuanian people. The hill was visited by Pope
John Paul II during his 1993 trip to Lithuania.
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The
Thomas-Mann House in Nida, Lithuania. German writer Thomas Mann and
his family spent three consecutive summers in Nida from 1930-1932. In
1995 the Thomas Mann Cultural Centre was established in the house and
it became a museum.
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