Joninės Birštone
An all-day midsummer celebration in Lithuania's elegant spa-resort town on the Nemunas river, blending traditional customs, folk music, a midsummer fair and a night-time fire show amid the natural beauty of the Nemunas loops.
Cottages, B&Bs and hotels near Birštonas, Kaunas Region.
Some stay links are affiliate links. More
Add the free Villagly badge to your own website. It shows visitors you are listed with us and links them straight back to this page.
Get the free badge →Event details come from organisers and can change. Please check with the organiser before you travel.
"The Nemunas river town of Prienai hosts its own St Casimir folk fair, continuing Lithuania's 400-year-old Kaziukas tradition with local artisans, ceramic and amber stalls, live folk music, and traditional honey and bread."
Kaziuko mugė Prienuose
"The historic Samogitian town of Raseiniai holds a St Casimir fair with local craftspeople, folk ensembles, and traditional spring foods, continuing a regional Kaziukas tradition that echoes the great Vilnius fair in miniature."
Kaziuko mugė Raseiniuose
"Midsummer celebrated at Lithuania's vast open-air ethnographic museum, where visitors gather herbs, float wreaths and light the St John's bonfire amid reconstructed wooden villages beside Kaunas Lagoon."
Joninės Rumšiškėse
"The Lithuanian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum at Rumšiškės hosts its Midsummer night among reconstructed historic farmsteads, combining genuine folk ritual with the collections of Lithuania's five ethnographic regions."
Rasos (Joninių) šventė Rumšiškėse
"Sixty-nine free lakeside and riverside concerts thread through seven small Lithuanian towns each summer, turning Varėna's Dzūkija pinewoods into an open-air chamber-music salon with no tickets and no stage barriers."
Vandens Muzika (Water Music Festival), Varėna
"Free concerts by the lakes of the Molėtai lake district give a slow-travel reason to linger in one of Lithuania's most beautiful upland regions."
Vandens Muzika (Water Music Festival), Molėtai
"Lakeside free concerts in the small Aukštaitija resort town of Ignalina bring chamber music to the National Park shoreline across the full summer season."
Vandens Muzika (Water Music Festival), Ignalina
"Perched on a peninsula between six lakes, Zarasai hosts free waterside concerts as part of Lithuania's roving summer music route through its least-visited lake district."
Vandens Muzika (Water Music Festival), Zarasai
"The small Vilnius-region riverside town of Nemenčinė joins Lithuania's free waterside concert circuit, bringing live music to a community rarely visited by travellers."
Vandens Muzika (Water Music Festival), Nemenčinė
"Pivašiūnai hosts Lithuania's largest Žolinė pilgrimage, where villagers bring handmade bouquets of nine herbs and grains to be blessed at the famous pilgrimage church, blending ancient agrarian harvest customs with Catholic tradition on the fixed feast of the Assumption."
Žolinė, Pivašiūnų atlaidai