Excursions
Gruto Parkas: A bizarre communist ‘theme park’ laden with the sort of old Soviet-era statues that have disappeared from the rest of the old Eastern bloc. Lenin and Stalin live just a one hour 30 minute bus ride from Vilnius. Kitsch but fascinating. Grutas (tel: (8) 3135 5511; website: www.grutoparkas.lt).
Europos Parkas: This large sculpture park is located at the supposed exact centre of Europe, though the French geographers who originally ‘located’ it have now come out and said the real centre may actually lie a few kilometres away. Ten kilometres north by bus from Vilnius. Joneikiskiu (tel: (5) 237 7077; website: www.europosparkas.lt).
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