Globali kategorija: Naujamiestis

Galina: “Formerly, the Christmas tree was decorated at Vienybės (Unity) Square. There was a feast and Santa Claus was coming to see the children. We lived in S.Nėries Street (now V.Putvinskio Street), so we would see the decorated tree from our home windows. They would always decorate a real tree and near it would stand a […]

Writer Markas Zingeris: for me as a child, Laisvės Avenue (Lithuanian: Laisvės alėja) was both freedom and a promise. Freedom from classes or concerns, and a promise of dreams and exotic places. There was a book store there, in which I bought The Severed Hand by W. Hauff, and a cinema near the city garden, […]

Video by students of Vytautas Magnus University: Justė Balytaitė, Monika Žekaitė, Agnė Muškietaitė, Kristina Jazdauskaitė.

Solveiga Lukminaitė: My memories related to Laisvės alėja (Avenue) are only positive ones. It is the main central street of Kaunas, popular not only among its residents, but its guests as well. In my opinion, the fountain at Laisvės Avenue is the main symbol of the city. At the same time, it is its central […]

K. Laurinaitytė: I had been visiting Merkurijus since very young days. It was like one of the monuments of Kaunas. That building had something to it.  It was more beautiful on the exterior than the interior. It was the first place, where my mother allowed me to walk with friends without supervision. (2014) Alma: I […]

Gintaras Vitulskis: The first victory. At the end of the 20th century, St. Gertrude’s Gothic church became endangered. Not only was it turned into a warehouse, but there was also an idea to put it into a bag, so to speak: to build a multi-storey building in J. Gruodžio Street. In 1988, rapid construction of […]

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė (2014): We would often play in Miesto Sodas. There used to be a toy shop Du Gaideliai, where Miesto Sodas restaurant is currently located. 1/3 photographs. L. K. Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė with her father in front of the fountain of Miesto sodas. 16th of January 1949 2 photograph. L. K. Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė with her mother. […]

Lili Kristina Vaičekauskaitė-Čepauskienė (2014): Everyone on the same lion !

Arkadijus Vinokuras (member of the “Company”): We were proud of Kaunas, and the situation of Lithuania hurt us, so a lot of us would carry a litas coin featuring Duke Vytautas from the Smetona times. Miesto Sodas has become the symbol of wanting freedom, a little island of anti-conformism and the hippie movement itself was […]