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Presidential Palace

I would have thought Lithuania would be too new a nation to have bizarre traditions, but apparently not. Here, the guards lower the three flags at the front of the Presidential Palace, do a few small marches and then raise them back up again. Not sure if that was just because Hilary Clinton was paying a visit that day or whether that's a daily ritual.
Lithuania: Klaipeda, Kaunas and Vilnius

June 29th 2011
After Estonia and Latvia, I arrived in the final Baltic state of Lithuania. I was heading to the country’s small coastline and Lithuania’s third largest city, Klaipéda, but I stopped along the way at the fourth city, Siaulai (more or less pronounced Shoo-lay). This industrial city doesn’t really have anything to detain the visitor for that long, but 10km outside Siaulai is what has been de ... read more
Europe » Lithuania » Vilnius

Lithuanian Flag Independent between the two World Wars, Lithuania was annexed by the USSR in 1940. On 11 March 1990, Lithuania became the first of the Soviet republics to declare its independence, but Moscow did not recognize this proclamation until September of 199... ... read more
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