Telšiai

This church was completed in 1794 as part of a Franciscan monastery, and re-modelled in the 19th when the monastery was dissolved and it became the parish church. It was promoted to cathedral in 1926. It'a mixture of Baroque and Neoclassical, with a two storey main altar and a gallery. The churchyard fountain is dedicated to Kazimieras Simonavičius (c 1600-51), the world's first rocket engineer. He wrote the first textbook "Artis Magnae Artilleriae" and invented the concepts of fin stabilisers, multi-stage propulsion, and packing bio-warheads with the saliva of rabid dogs, much more efficient than launching entire rabid dogs.

This was built as the Orthodox Church of St Nicholas in 1867 on the site of a demolished Roman Catholic church. In the 1930s the RC diocese sued for its return, and it re-opened as an RC parish church in 1935. It's a mix of neo- Gothic, Baroque and Byzantine.

When the Orthodox community were ejected from what became Church of the Assumption, they built this second St Nicholas in cubist style: it's a 10m x 10m x 10m box with a dinky onion dome. Altar, iconostasis, icons and other sacral items were transferred from the original church.

Your search for Japanese pagodas in Lithuania is finally over. Jeweller and artist A Jonušas has created this pagoda and collection of other Japanese and Chinese artifacts, which you're free to wander.

Open-air museum with historic buildings, and exhibits of local archaeological finds, art and culture. It used to be in town on Muziejaus g, but has moved to this more spacious site south of the lake and is still being re-built.

Year-round programme.