page_title: Kaunas Castle
section_title: Today
hierarchical_section_title: Kaunas Castle / Today
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Замок в Каунасе, Литва Polski: Zamek w Kownie, Litwa English: Kaunas Castle, Lithuania
context_page_description: Kaunas Castle is a medieval castle in Kaunas, the second-largest city in Lithuania. Archeological evidence suggests that it was originally built during the mid-14th century, in the Gothic style. Its site is strategic – a rise on the banks of the Nemunas River near its confluence with the Neris River. At the beginning of the 21st century, about one-third of the castle was still standing.
context_section_description: Major reconstruction work started in 2010 and ended in 2011. In 2011, a branch of the Kaunas City Museum was established in Kaunas Castle. The castle is open to tourism, and hosts occasional festivals. A new sculpture "Freedom Warrior" (or the Vytis) was erected near Kaunas castle on 14 July 2018. The "Freedom Warrior" is almost seven meters high and was cast in Ukraine. A bronze horseman with a horse was placed at the castle of Kaunas on a granite pedestal. The authors of the sculpture are Lithuanian A. Sakalauskas and Ukrainians Boris Krylov and Olesius Sidoruk. In 2019 Kaunas City museum with Kaunas Castle became a new Member of Association of Castles and Museums around the Baltic Sea.
caption: Kaunas Castle in 2016
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