Light parks in Lithuania will surprise you with their ideas and originality this year. As many as 8 light parks and festivals will operate in Lithuania this year and at the beginning of next year. Some invite you to dive into space, others to get acquainted with the enlightening history of Lithuania, and in yet another to meet children’s favorite heroes.
This article prepared by us will help you discover the most interesting and beautiful light parks and recommend what to see in Lithuania with the family this fall and winter. We guarantee that light parks in Lithuania will surprise you this year.
Light parks and festivals in Lithuania in 2023
Light parks in Lithuania will be held in various places this year. You can choose according to the place where it is more convenient for you to come or according to your and your children’s interests.
Winter Festival of Pakruojis Manor “Christmas Space Station”
It has been declared the Lithuanian tourism object of the year more than once. The Pakruojis manor will turn into a space station for the winter and invite you to the biggest Christmas festival in the region. The 15-hectare space station will host impressive light and laser shows, various holiday programs for the whole family, bustling Christmas fairs, gnome gift manufactories and attractions, huge space sculptures and lanterns will illuminate the entire estate, and wishes will be fulfilled by Santa Claus.
The festival, which will be held from November 25, will not only delight you with unique compositions of light lanterns from the vastness of the galaxy. On the days of the event, there will be Christmas performances by actors, dances with polar bears, enchanting laser and fire shows, a fair of delicacies of the universe and a bakery of heavenly flavors. Children will be waiting here and the most popular will deliver Christmas mail to the camel.
Read about the largest Christmas space station in the Pakruojis manor.
You can buy tickets online.
Kakė Makė Illuminating Park (Kaunas)
From October 27 Kakė Makė invites everyone, young and old, to the luminous Kakė Makė park!
Kakės Makės Park, located in one of the most unique parks in Lithuania – Kaunas Ĺžuolyna, illuminated by the festival of lanterns and light installations, invites you on a magical journey with the characters of Kakės Makės fairy tales, which are well-known and loved not only by children.
Surrounded by hundred-year-old oaks, over 250 light sculptures and laser installations, created especially for this project, will await visitors, among which children and parents will meet not only Kakę Makę. The Messy Dwarf, Mamaisa and Nanaisa, Mucis, Čiūčia and other characters from the stories of Kakės Makės will also invite you to experience adventure and joy here.
Kakė Makė Illuminating Park invites you and your children to immerse yourself in the world of Kakė Makė.
You can buy tickets online.
Festival of Lights and Lanterns “Moon Trails” (Rumšiškės)
Already on November 4. (Saturday) The largest light and lantern festival “Mēnuo takais” with more than 300 sculptures, lasers and LED installations will open its doors at the Lithuanian Folk Household Museum in Rumšiškės. Immerse yourself in the kingdom of dreams with the “Moon Paths” festival of light and lanterns, which will be held for the first time in Lithuania.
The festival, which will take place in a unique space, in the Lithuanian folk household museum in Rumšiškės, invites you to immerse yourself in a magical world. In this world, you will meet mysterious forest inhabitants, fairies, angels, light sculptures inspired by Lithuanian culture and history, and, of course, the prophet of the greatest winter holidays, the nine-horned deer. And to forget at least for a while, immerse yourself in the kingdom of dreams and stay as if in a state of weightlessness, the “Forest of Stars” will invite you.
Festival of Lanterns and Light on the Paths of the Moon can be found here and we are waiting for you in Rumšiškės.
You can buy tickets online.
Lumina Park Alice in Wonderland (Vilnius)
In Lithuania, the park operates in one of the most beautiful places in the capital – Vilnius University’s botanical garden in Kairenai. In Lumina Park you will see art installations created by Agnė Kišonaitė, Kotryna Čalkaitė and Jarosław Koziara. Lumina Park will give you and your family a great mood and leave the most beautiful memories. We invite you to a magical and magical garden where you will experience and discover the magic of lights, shadows and sounds.
This year, Lumina Park invites you to a magical and enchanting park of light installations based on the motifs of L. Carroll’s book “Alice in Wonderland”. Visitors to the park will meet the White Rabbit, the Cheshire Cat and other characters from the book. These characters will make the journey through the light and sound magical.
You can buy tickets online. Tickets for Castle Wars and Alice in Wonderland are cheaper together.
Lumina park Castle Wars (Vilnius)
Welcome to Vilnius, where guns clang, elaborate armor gleams and astonishing legends are told. Lumina Park invites you back more than six centuries to the glorious past. Then, Lithuania was ruled by Gediminas and his minions. Then Vilnius became the capital, and there were fierce battles for the throne.
You can buy tickets online. Tickets for Castle Wars and Alice in Wonderland are cheaper together.
Lumina park
Vilnius Festival of Lights (Vilnius)
In Vilnius in 2024 January 25-28 there will be a free festival of lights. Light installations, implemented architectural objects, digital art and lighting design solutions. Everything will take place in the streets and squares of the city of Vilnius. You will find the exact location of each installation on the festival map.
In the yard of the Radailiai manor – traveling along Nykštukai paths (Radailiai, Klaipėda district)
You will be able to go down the paths of wonderful gnomes from mid-December. The entire 2 ha yard of the Radailiai Manor lights up. It has unprecedented colors, unconventional light projections and cozy moments as gifts for FREE! This event promises to keep everyone entertained until the end of January.
Shining Gardens of Babylon (Klaipėda district)
Event in the gardens of Babilonas is planned from December 15. Have you ever seen a brainless person walking on the Arc de Triomphe? Is the Eiffel Tower coming to life like never before? All the wonders of the world will come alive thanks to lights and music. We invite you to travel the world along the paths of light throughout the winter.
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