Užgavėnės Plateliai
Plateliai, home to Lithuania's only dedicated Užgavėnės museum, hosts the most famous Shrove Tuesday carnival in Žemaitija, with masked processions, competitive pancake eating, traditional songs and the ceremonial burning of the Morė effigy to drive out winter.
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"A Kaziukas craft fair held in the tiny fishing village of Preila on the Curonian Spit brings folk artisans and traditional foods to one of Lithuania's most scenically remote communities, set among dunes between the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic Sea."
Kaziuko mugė Preiloje
"Tauragė brings the Kaziukas craft fair tradition to western Lithuania with a market of certified artisans selling folk art, woven goods, amber jewellery, and traditional Samogitian foods in the town centre."
Kaziuko mugė Tauragėje
"Plungė closes out the Lithuanian Kaziukas season with a lively late-March fair featuring folk craft stalls, live music, concerts, and family entertainment, making it one of the most festive of the regional St Casimir markets in Samogitia."
Kaziuko mugė Plungėje
"A four-day folklore festival on the Curonian Spit, filling the dunes, lagoon shores and bonfire gatherings of the UNESCO-listed village of Nida with traditional songs and midsummer rites."
Tek saulužė ant maračių, Joninių folkloro festivalis Nidoje
"A midsummer fire mystery beside the ancient Aukuro (Altar) Hill in this small Lithuania Minor village, where the 2026 Mažoji Lietuva Cultural Capital revives Prussian-Lithuanian ethnographic customs with barn-theatre and bonfire rites."
Joninės Agluonėnuose
"Fire meets water at midsummer in the tiny riverside village of Mingė on the Minija, where traditional rites, music and expert wreath-weaving instruction are held in the intimate setting of the Little Minija Valley."
Joninės Mažajame Minijos slėnyje
"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