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Kaunas Primary School “Rūtelė” the 2Nd Part of the Project 2016, Lithuania Kaunas Primary School “Rūtelė” The 2nd part of the project 2016, Lithuania Lithuania My name is Austeja. I will tell you about my country Lithuania. Area of Lithuania is 650 200 sq. km. So Lithuania isn’t a big country. Neighboring countries are Latvia, Byelorussia, Poland and Russia (Kaliningrad). Capital and the biggest city is Vilnius. Vilnius has a very beautiful and UNESCO protected Old town. The five largest cities in Lithuania are Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda, Siauliai and Panevezys. Lithuanian climate is moderate. It is a medium – warmth summer and medium cold winter. In Lithuania live 2,929,323 people. Lithuania has got beautiful and green country side. My name is Rugilė. I live in Lithuania. Lithuania is the country in Europe, near the Baltic Sea. The capital of Lithuania is Vilnius. Vilnius is the biggest city in Lithuania. The population of Lithuania is nearly 3 million people. In Lithuania are lots of forests. The biggest lake in Lithuania is Drūkšiai. In the Baltic Sea you can find amber. You have to come and see Lithuania!!! Lithuania • One of the three Baltic states, it is next to Baltic Sea. It is bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest. • Area of Lithuania is 65,300 km2 • In Lithuania lives about 2.9 million people. The official language is Lithuanian. • In Lithuania lives Poles (6.6%), Russians (5.8%), Belarusians (1.2%) and Ukrainians (0.5%). • The flag of Lithuania consists of a horizontal tricolor of yellow, green and red. • The Sun • Forest • Blood The capital city of Lithuania is Vilnius. The sea port city is Klaipėda. The history says, that Lithuania had only one king and his name was Mindaugas. The history also says that in 15th century Lithuania was much bigger than today- it was from the Baltic Sea in the North to the Black Sea in the South. Basketball is a very popular sport in Lithuania. • And maybe Lithuania is a small country but I love it very much and I think it’s really beautiful :D. • See you in Lithuania! Lithuania Lithuania is a very beautiful country. Lithuania takes more than 65 thousand square kilometers. Neighbour countries of Lithuania are Belarus, Russia, Poland and Latvia. The capital of Lithuania is Vilnius. Vilnius is the biggest city in Lithuania. Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys are very big cities too. Climate of Lithuania depends on four seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Spring is warm, summer is hot, autumn is cold and rainy, winter is freezing. There are about 3 milion people in Lithuania. KAUNAS • Hi. I am Adomas. I live in Kaunas. Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania with 300 000 people living in it. Kaunas is the most beautiful city in Lithuania. My city is the temporary capital of Lithuania. There is a very nice old town. Kaunas old town is big. There are many museums in Kaunas: Vytautas Magnus museum, Devils museum, IX Kaunas fort and other museums. Laisves avenue is the longest pedestrian street in Europe. It is 1,7 km length. There is a Zoo in Kaunas. It is the only Zoo in Lithuania. There is a Botanical Garden in my city. This is a beautiful park when flowers are blooming. • Kaunas has a famous basketball team ,, Žalgiris’’which plays in Euro league. • I like my city. Come and see it! Kaunas is Lithuania's heart. It is located in the center of Lithuania. Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania. In Kaunas live about 300 000 people. Through Kaunas the largest Lithuanian river Nemunas flows. Here are a lot of universities, colleges and schools. Tourists can visit the old town and Kaunas Castle. Kaunas has about 40 museums. The Devil Museum and Military Museum are my favorite museums. Kaunas has Laisves Avenue. Here are a lot of shops and cafes. It is beautiful in winter and in summer. Kaunas has its own airport. It is convenient to travel everywhere. I love Kaunas! Kaunas Kaunas Castle Laisves Avenue Military museum Hi! My name is Mantas. I am eleven years old and I from Lithuania. I live in Kaunas. I go to Primary school ,,Rutelė”. Kaunas is a beatiful city. Kaunas is the second biggest city in Lithuania. Kaunas has got two rivers: Nemunas and Neris. Kaunas has got castle and old town. Kaunas is famous for Gothic architecture. In Kaunas you can visit museums and churches. City has shopping malls and a botanical garden. Kaunas is famous for its big event: “ Kaunas jazz “ festival. There is a good basketball team „Žalgiris“. 308 831 people live in Kaunas. Dear friend, I hope you are well. Spring is coming to Lithuania and I am very happy about it. I want to tell you about a special place in Lithuania which I like very much. It looks the best in spring or summer. It is Juniper Valley in Kaunas Region. It is 90 years old. The valley is sometimes even compared to the Swiss Alps. Junipers of various shapes grow there naturally. There also grow a lot of other rare plants. Juniper Valley has a nice wooden path to walk. It is half a kilometer length. The air is very good to breathe there. I can see Kaunas Sea and its island from the valley. Birds love the island very much. I hope you can come to Lithuania and visit Juniper Valley with me some time soon. I am sending you a picture with me and my mum at the Juniper Valley. I wish you all the best! Famous places in Lithuania Lithuania is a small country, but it has famous places. One of them is the Hill of Crosses. The Hill of Crosses is a site of pilgrimage about 12 km north of the city of Šiauliai, in northern Lithuania. The precise origin of the practice of leaving crosses on the hill is uncertain, but it is believed that the first crosses were placed on the former Jurgaičiai or Domantai hill fort after the 1831 Uprising. Over the generations, not only crosses and crucifixes, but statues of the Virgin Mary, carvings of Lithuanian patriots and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims. The exact number of crosses is unknown, but estimates put it at about 55,000 in 1990 and 100,000 in 2006. • CHRIST‘S RESURRECTION CHURCH , KAUNAS • IN 1928 , WHEN KAUNAS WAS THE CAPITAL OF LITHUANIA , THE PROJECT OF THE CHURCH WAS MADE . IT WAS VERY MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY! IN 1940 IT WAS ALMOST COMPLETED , AND THE WORLD WAR 2 STARTED . AFTER THE WAR, RUSSIANS MADE IT RADIO FACTORY . IN 2004 IT WAS FINALLY REOPENED AS A CHURCH . FROM THE ROOF YOU CAN SEE THE WHOLE KAUNAS ! The famous places of Lithuania Trakai. Trakai is famous for its castle. The castle of Trakai is very beautiful and majestic. It stands in the island and is surrounded by Galve lake. Me and my family were yachting in this lake and it was very funny! Neringa. Neringa is formed of four parts: Nida, Juodkrantė, Preila and Pervalka. In Neringa it is worth to visit the dune of Parnidis, the mountain of Withes and the place of cormorants and more other places! Neringa is surrounded by the Baltic Sea. Our family spends holidays in beautiful Neringa every summer. Cormorants Anykščiai. Anykščiai is Lithuanian culture capital of 2016. There are a lot of places to visit in Anykščiai: the second largest stone of Puntukas, the pinewood of Anykščiai, the moss of Queen, the museum of Horses. Me and my classmates were in Anykščiai many times and we liked it very much! Top ten- the most beautiful Lithuanian places 10. Lake tauragnas Tauragnas is the deepest lake in Lithuania reaching 60.5 metres of depth. The surface area is 5.13 km² and average depth 18.7 m. It is situated in Aukštaitija National Park near Tauragnai in Utena County. 9. Ventės ragas This is the place with the lonely lighthouse, built as if on the very edge of the world, and people, in whose eyes only water and sky are reflected, who ring birds so that they can observe their journey through the sky.Ventės Ragas is one of the best places in Europe to observe migrant birds. For this reason, ornithologists both from Lithuania and abroad meet here every year. 8. Country life museum in Rumsiskes Museum has the biggest quantity of exhibits (183 buildings and over 86 000 mobile exhibits). The museum presents the mode of life, works, and traditions of peasants and townspeople of all Lithuanian ethnographic areas: Dzūkija, Aukštaitija, Suvalkija, Žemaitija and Lithuania Minor. It was established in 1966, in Rumšiškės on a picturesque coast of Kaunas Lagoon. There are fragments of the villages, authentic farms, century-old buildings with flower gardens, orchards and vegetable gardens, with crosses and wooden roofed poles, technical facilities - mills, forges, a fulling-mill and oil-mill lining along 7 km circular route, meandering between forests, meadows and hills. 7. Ula eyes Ula eyes - this is one of the most famous and most impressive sources of these countries is quite a lot. "Ula eye is left Ula waterfront terrace and watching the Mančiagirė villages, 8 meters from the shore. It's like a tiny small lake, a waterhole length is 4.4 m and the width - 3.4 m. The length of the center is constantly bustling with strong water currents agitated in the sand. Source flow rate of 2 l / s, and a day even 137.2 m3 of water draining into Ūla 67 m long river.
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