| Musical
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Your hosts in
the Baltics |
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Mike Johnson, General Manager |
Ms.
Aija Vingolde, Tourist Office Manager |
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Who is Patricia LTD ? |
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More members of our
experienced team that will service you on this tour. |
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& 30 year European experienced guides are avaialble |
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| Poland |
Tour services are Poland are
optional and may be provided in several forms. We may provide bus
and basic coordination services using your chosen program and
local guides. Or, you may utilize our full services and we will
develop a complete program for Poland. |
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Typical example of our
detailed program development and communication between our
companies and the guides. This is an evolving communication tool
which will shortly be fully expanded to include all aspects of the
tour program.
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Lithuania |
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Day 1 Saturday 21
September |
Leave Warsaw
early in the morning and travel aboard a deluxe double deck motor
coach traveling North through the lovely Polish countryside. The
roads may not be so good; but the knowledge of the experienced
on-board guides will share all the details. We will play some
musical tapes of local celebrities and folk music both from
history and in the current time. You will stop twice for breaks
and for a quick lunch along the way. As you approach Lithuania,
view recently filmed tourism video tape about the highlights of
Lithuania. |
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| Warsaw
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| Kaunas
- Vilnius |
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Arriving in
the evening, you will check in to the Radisson
SAS Astorija Hotel Vilnius. After refreshing a special dinner
will be waiting with a musical highlight of local favorites, classics
and Lithuania folk songs. |
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2
Sunday
22 September |
After a
scrumpous buffet breakfast, join with our local experienced
guide to tour the sights of the Old Vilnius city. You will also
visit the Lithuanian
national opera and ballet theatre. You will learn of it's rich history
dating back to the year 1636 when Vilnius became one of the first
European capitals acquainted with the new genre of the baroque
art.
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In the
afternoon you will travel North and West for one hour to the
second largest city in Lithuania, Kaunas. There in addition to a
quick tour of the city, you will visit the Kaunas Musical Theatre. |
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Kaunas
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Today Kaunas Music
Theatre is the second largest theatre in Lithuania. Its
repertoire includes all musical stage genres. Local people
and visitors can see the most popular operas by Mozart,
Gounod, Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti and von Flotow,
operettas by J. Strauss, Lehar, Offenbach, Kalman,
Abraham, and musicals by Loewe, Leigh and Bernstein. The
theatre also arranges concerts.
The company is proud of
its soloists, who have won international vocal
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The theatre palace on
the central street of Kaunas was built in 1892. The
original neo-renaissance building has been altered by
several exterior and interior since reconstructions. The
interior of the auditorium, designed by famous Lithuanian
architect V. Dubeneckis in 1925, is of special value. It
combines two tendencies in the art of the period; the
Lithuanian pattern of tulips and lilies and European Art
Deco, which was popular at the time. The auditorium seats
up to 500 spectators. |
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Kaunas
State Musical Theatre |
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Day 3
Monday
23 September
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Leaving mid
morning and continuing on Northward to Latvia. On board, we will
view a 30 minute video of Riga and and the rich cultural heritage
of this 800 year old area. We will showcase some of the highlights
of the history and compare similarities and differences between
Latvia and Lithuania. Shortly we will arrive at historic Rundale
Castle was built in
the mid 18th century as a summer residence for the Duke of Kurzeme
(Courland), Ernst Johann Biron, and was designed by the prominent
architect Bartolommeo Francesco Rastrelli. |
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Rundale
Palace Museum
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The interiors of the
palace are the finest examples of Baroque style and Rococo
decorative art in Latvia. The museum was opened in 1966
and repositories contain 36 000 items. |
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Vilnius to Rundale
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After
an escorted tour of the museum, you will experience a delightful
late lunch with musical accompaniment in the Palace kitchen dining
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After lunch and a stroll
through the ground and the gardens, you will proceed North again
to Riga, the capital of Latvia and the Baltics.
Check in will be at the marvelous
"Five Star" Grand Palace Hotel in the heart of the
Old Medieval walled city just a short walk from Domes square and
the 800 year old Domes church.
The Hotel Grand Palace is the
only place to stay in Riga ! |
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