Tell your friends, colleagues or clients about Vilnius. We offer you a short presentation including speaking points about the city, its culture, life, ideas and other features.

1. Vilnius
The Capital of Lithuania

2. Lithuania
• Population: 3,2 mln.
(2011)
• At the intersection
between North, East
and Central Europe
• Member of
EU, NATO, UN, OEC
D and WTO

3. Vilnius
• The South East of Lithuania
• 312 km to the Baltic Sea
• On the bank of the river Neris
• First mentioned in 1323
• Geographical centre of Europe is located
26 km to the North of Vilnius
• 656,7 thou inhabitants (2010 city
municipality and district)
• Continental climate: warm summers (16°C
average) and cold winters (- 6°C average)
• Four seasons

4. Getting here
Flight times to Vilnius:
• London 2 hrs 20 min
• Moscow 2 hrs 15 min
• Frankfurt 1 hrs 45 min
• Berlin 1 hrs 10 min
• Copenhagen 1 hrs 10 min
• Warsaw 1 hrs 10 min

5. Competitive Zone
16 mln people within 300 km radius

6. Green and Clean
• Parks, public gardens, reserves and other
green areas cover over 46 percent of the
city‟s area.
• Absolutely clean drinking water! Vilnius
has one of the best drinking water
qualities among European cities.
• 2.1 % - waters (30 lakes, 16 rivers)

7. City of Art and Culture
• Around 40 churches, most of the architecture is baroque and classicistic
• Great variety of cultural events, such as Culture Night, Street Musician Day, Vilnius
Festivals, ect.
• The Ministry of Fluxus – a unique private contemporary art incubator for young
artists: 200 artists, thousands of visitors

8. Fastest Internet in the World
• According to the Business
Insider‟s Net Index Vilnius has the
fastest internet in the world
• Average internet download speed
– 36.37 Mbps, upload speed –
28.51 Mbps
• World‟s average speed is 9.43
Mbps, EU average – 12.99 Mbps.

9. Rent & Share: E-Orange
• First in Europe to launch
electric bike “Rent and
Share” system – E-orange
• First in Europe to launch
touch-sensitive digital maps
at bus stops

10. The Strongest Man in The World
• Žydrūnas
Savickas is a
professional
strongman and is
usually titled the
all-time strongest
man.
• Six times in a row
he has won the
most prestigious
contest - “Arnold‟s
Strongest Man”
• The strongest man in the
world not only lives in
Vilnius, he is a member of
Vilnius city council, too.

11. Are They Crazy? (1)
• In 1991 tens of thousands of crazy Lithuanians armed only by songs and flags
gathered in Vilnius to defend the state‟s independence in front of the Soviet army
forces

12. Are They Crazy? (2)
• It is widely known that one of the major religions in Vilnius is… basketball

13. ‘Don’t Make Me Get The Tank’
• In 2011 mayor Artūras Zuokas raised the world‟s attention to illegal parking by
staging the destruction of the car parked in a city‟s bike line with a tank
• He was awarded with Ig Nobel Peace Prize for „demonstrating that the problem
of illegally parked luxury cars can be solved by running over them with a tank‟

14. What About Buying an Island?
• Vilnius mayor Artūras Zuokas suggested businesses and companies to raise money
and buy a Greek Oxia island in the Mediterranean. In Lithuanian the island would be
called „Dausuva‟ and could become a 22nd neighborhood of Vilnius

15. Ačiū!
Iki!
Thank you!
See you in
Vilnius!
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