Žolinė, Pivašiūnų atlaidai
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.
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"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
"A young contemporary art festival in the tiny Dzukija village of Valkininkai that draws visitors into multi-sensory journeys through modern art forms in an unexpectedly rural setting."
Sūkuriai
"A revival of interwar heritage-day celebrations in the former capital of Dainava, with artisans' markets, historians' talks on Merkinė's past, folk and contemporary music, ancient-recipe tastings, and stargazing."
Senovės dienų festivalis Merkinėje
"A chamber-music concert series held in the atmospheric church and hilltop of a small Dzukija town that was once a royal residence of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, mixing classical, jazz, and early music in intimate outdoor and sacred-space settings."
Koncertai Burmistrui, sezono finalas
"Varėna, the self-styled mushroom capital of Lithuania, turns its pine-forest streets into a competitive foraging arena each September, with team picking championships, a fungi-hunters parade, handicraft stalls and Dzūkija forest food at the heart of it all."
Grybų šventė
"An annual contemporary arts festival that transforms the small historic Dzukija town of Merkinė into an open-air gallery of installations, experimental music, and live performances spread across industrial and riverside sites."
Aritmija
"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
"Now in its 33rd year, this internationally attended country music festival is the largest of its kind in the Baltic States, bringing authentic American roots music and dancing to a small lakeside town in northeastern Lithuania."
Visagino Country 2026
"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."
Užgavėnės Plateliai