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Magdalena Abakanowicz, Space of Unknown Growth. Europos Parkas (the "Park of Europe") is a 50-hectare open-air museum located 17 km from Vilnius, Lithuania.The museum gives an artistic significance to the geographic centre of the European continent (as determined by the French National Geographic Institute in 1989) and presents Lithuanian and international modern art.
The State Tourism Department at the Ministry of Economy of Lithuania has classified the Geographic Centre monument and its reserve as a tourist attraction. 17 km away lies Europos Parkas, Open Air Museum of the Centre of Europe, a sculpture park containing the world's largest sculpture made of TV sets.
In Europe, it is available through Astra 4A satellite, also free of charge to Kabel Digital subscribers in Germany. Starting with August 2020, LRT Lituanica is also broadcast terrestrially in North-Eastern Poland as well. In North America, the channel could have viewed free of charge on satellite Galaxy 19, 97 West until 2020.
Girija is a village in Vilnius District Municipality, Lithuania. According to the 2011 census, it had population of 9. It is located near the Girija Lake . [1] The only Geographical Centre of Europe recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records is located in Girija. [2] [3] The village also hosts the Europos Centro Golf Club.
Lithuania accepted the convention on 31 March 1992, making its natural and historical sites eligible for inclusion on the list. The first site added to the list was the Vilnius Historic Centre, in 1994. Further sites were added in 2000, 2004, 2005, and 2023. [3] In total, there are five sites on the list, [4] [5] [6] all of them cultural.
Lithuanian authorities say almost 50 foreign delegations with 2,400 representatives are gathering in Vilnius, including 40 presidents or prime ministers and up to 150 other high-ranking politicians.
West-Central and East-Central Europe – this conception, presented in 1950, [90] distinguishes two regions in Central Europe: German West-Centre, with the imperial tradition of the Reich, and the East-Centre covered by a variety of nations from Finland to Greece, placed between the great empires of Scandinavia, Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union.
Vilnius (/ ˈ v ɪ l n i ə s / ⓘ VIL-nee-əs, Lithuanian: [ˈvʲɪlʲnʲʊs] ⓘ) is the capital of and largest city in Lithuania and the most-populous city in the Baltic states.The city's estimated January 2025 population was 607,404, [7] and the Vilnius urban area (which extends beyond the city limits) has an estimated population of 747,864.