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SOCIAL CREATIVE WEEKENDERS The urban playground. 2.5–3 days · 2 nights | Street-art trail · creative spaces · live-music evening
Street art, independent galleries and craft cocktail bars, all within a walkable centre that never feels like a crowd. No long taxi rides, no queues — just a city-sized stage that keeps producing the next scene.
WHERE TO STAY
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Hotel PACAI · Imperial Hotel & Restaurant · Grand Hotel Vilnius, Curio Collection by Hilton
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Artagonist Art Hotel · Grotthuss Boutique Hotel · St Palace Hotel · Shakespeare Boutique Hotel
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Comfort Hotel – Rock ’n’ Roll Vilnius · Solo Society Hybrid Hotel · Corner Hotel
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GO VILNIUS · TRAVEL TRADE · GOVILNIUS.LT/TRAVEL-TRADE
1 DAY
STREET ART & CREATIVE VILNIUS
Morning
Street-art trail. Užupis and revitalised industrial areas — murals, independent galleries and studio spaces, on foot. Collect the Užupis Republic stamp in your passport and find Meko skersvėjis, the passage dedicated to Jonas Mekas.
Lunch
Afternoon
Le Mans, Paupio Turgus or Detective.
Lukiškės Prison 2.0. A working prison until 2019, now one of the city’s strangest creative campuses: studios, bars and events inside the cell blocks. The tour takes in the circular chapel, the exercise yards, cells still covered in inmates’ drawings, and film sets left behind by international productions — Stranger Things shot here. In English, booking in advance.
Evening
Night
Dinner. Augustin, B’ARN Bistro (both Michelin Bib Gourmand) or Trinity.
Craft cocktail bars & live music. Bar-hopping through hidden courtyard bars — Bardakas or Apoteka Bar — into a live-music venue: Jazz Cellar 11, Veranda, or Estrada, which regularly has live acts. Still going? Bitc Bar runs karaoke in every language until the early hours.
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SOCIAL CREATIVE WEEKENDERS · 2
2 DAY
DESIGN, MARKETS & NIGHTLIFE
Morning
Design & vintage shopping. Independent boutiques, concept stores and secondhand rails between the Old Town and the creative quarters — Lithuanian labels, ceramics and prints bought straight from the people who made them. On the way: Literatų street, where a wall of small artworks honours writers connected with Vilnius — one piece per name, and still growing. Optional — a pastry crawl with a story at every stop: Pinavija for the queue-worthy pies, Augustas & Barbora for the city’s most famous love story, Grūdas for the sourdough.
Lunch
Afternoon
Halės Turgus food hall, Rosehip Vegan Bistro or Mo Bistro. Thematic tour. Choose one: Hidden Vilnius Courtyards, Famous Vilnius Women, or a Panoramic Tour of Vilnius — all need booking in advance. Short on notice? The free walking tour of the Old Town runs daily. Optional: MO Museum’s Visual Thinking Strategy education session (for groups, booking needed); visit to the Open Gallery and evening concert at Loftas (if available).
Evening
Food scene. La Boheme, or Resto baras at City Wave — dinner with a surf park in view.
Night
Rooftop sunset. Take the sunset from the Pink and Yellow rooftop, then move on to Desertų Klubas — which turns into Bread Bar by night (Thu–Sat) — for a different kind of bar.
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SOCIAL CREATIVE WEEKENDERS · 3
3 DAY
ART MUSEUMS
Morning
Explore Vilnius’ art museums. Choose one: the National Art Gallery, the Radvila Palace Museum of Art, Kazys Varnelis House-Museum, Sapieha Palace, the Museum of Applied Arts and Design, or the Centre of Wooden Architecture.
Lunch
Momo Grill Vilnius, Ponių laimė, Gaspar’s (Michelin Bib Gourmand), Kitchen Coffee or Meat Lovers — a relaxed farewell bite.
Optional — make lunch yourselves at Misija: Cepelinas on Žygimantų street: the group grates, fills and boils Lithuania’s national dish under instruction, then sits down to eat it (shakshuka is the alternative menu). In English, built for groups, booking ahead.
Afternoon
Make something before you go. A short hands-on workshop — ceramics, screen printing or scent blending in a working studio — or an hour of vinyl digging in the Old Town’s record shops. The group leaves with something nobody else has.
SOUVENIRS TO TAKE HOME
Build your own pin collection from the “Make heads turn” shop, pick up Vilnius Pink Soup Fest merch and a bottled scent of Lithuania at the Vilnius Tourist Information Centre, or go folk and pagan with Baltic Shamans. Best paired with Vilnius’ festival calendar (Vilnius Pink Soup Fest, Skamba Skamba Kankliai, street-art festivals) for maximum “urban playground” effect.