Hanza Kaunas 2011

Hansa Town Festival 2009

It is already for the fifth time that Kaunas, the sole Hanseatic Town in Lithuania, romps around cheerfully. The festival is devoted to the millennium of the name of Lithuania this time. On the base of Vytautas Church in the quay of Nemunas beside the old wharf, from the very midday, knights and dames walk around, schools of courteous manners invite to learn, dancing lessons, knight tournaments, puppet-plays, concerts and traditional pig racing are organised. Here peas are steaming in huge pans and steaks are roasted on spits and beer is foaming up freely; charming witches with their brooms propped up prepare divers herbal infusions and weave magical spell. On the concrete downhill of the far bank of the river, the stripe of millennium woven from colourful square pieces of board catches one's fancy.