VILNIUSCapital of Lithuania

Lithuania

3.2 mln inhabitants

Member of the EU, Nato, OECD, UN, WTO

Geographical center of Europe and one of the EU’s prime transport hub

Currency: Euro from 01/01/2015

Vilnius

93% of the inhabitants are happy to live in VilniusSource: Eurostat

Founded in 1323

+650 000 citizens +400km² South-East of Lithuania

Warm summers, cold winters

Four seasons

Vilnius

Getting here You can fly to Vilnius from every major European capitals, on

23 different airline companies:

London: 2hrs 20min

Oslo: 1hr 50min

Stockholm: 1hrs 30min

Helsinki: 1hr 45 min

Moscow: 2hrs 15 min

Kiev: 1hr 20min

Istanbul: 2hrs 25min

Rome: 2hrs 45min

Paris: 2hrs 35min

Berlin: 1hr 25min

Brussels: 2hrs 20min

Dublin: 3hrs 10 min

Direct Flights withAir Lituanica

Vilnius-based airline

First flight on June 29th 2013

11 of the main European cities covered

43 flights /week from Vilnius

Ambitious growth plan: 16 routes and 600,000 passengers/year in 2016

Within a 300km radius from Vilnius live 16 mln Europeans

A strategic localization

A competitive city

A business-friendly environment

4th lowest corporate tax rate in the EU: 15%

27th out of 185 capitals for « Ease of Doing Business »

A competitive work force

Most highly qualified in the EU: +50% of 24-29 have tertiary education

Multilingual population: +50% of Lithuanians speak 2 foreign languages or more

A Competitive City

Wealthiest city inEastern Europe

And an ambitious regional leader in smart innovationsChosen by IBM the compete with Perth, Brussels and Durban in the « Smarter Cities

Challenge »

Highest GPD/capita: 15% of the country’s inhabitans but 40% of its GDP

Fastest growing city in the Baltics

« A leading city in investment performance, infrastructure and business friendly environment»

FDI in 2013: 7.55 billions € FDI growth in 2013: 13%

Average monthly wage in Vilnius: 779 €

Praised by

« 4th in the world in terms of FDI growth in 2012 »

« 6th in Northern Europe for business friendly environment »

“One of the greenest of the former Eastern bloc capitals, Vilnius has a forward-thinking city government. In a recent Internet video that spread virally, the mayor, Arturas Zuokas, is seen crushing a Mercedes parked on a bike path with a tank. Beyond the obvious political theater of the stunt, the city, whose metropolitan area population is 850,000 takes providing good public transportation seriously. A recent study suggested that some 70 percent of the capital’s citizens either walk, bike or take the bus.Vilnius, a verdant city that despite some communist architectural clunkers is charmingly medieval and surprisingly well maintained, boasts an old town that is a Unesco world heritage site. After the fall of the old regime, the city took great pains to retool its waste disposal systems, building a modern landfill in 2005. The capital attracts young professionals, and not just from Eastern Europe, who see in Vilnius a rising star in business and appreciate all that the extensive cultural scene in the little capital has to offer. “

InternationalSchools

The American International School of Vilniushttp://www.aisv.lt/

Ecole Française de Vilniushttp://www.efv.lt/

Vilnius International School http://vischool.lt/

46% of the city is covered by green areas: Forest, Parks, Public Gardens…

High-quality freshwater in abundance and healthiest tap water in Europe

Green, Clean andBalanced

One of the cleanest airs in Europe

+40 churches of every faith and style

Diverse architechtural heritage: medieval, renaissance, baroque, neo-classical, sovietic

The European Capital of Fluxus – a global intermedia artistic move bon in the 60’s : 1st Ministry of Fluxus and the World’s 1st Fluxus Radio

A City of Art and History

Great variety of cross-border cultural events: Culture Night, Vilnius Festival, Song Festival…

According to the Business Insider’s Net Index, Vilnius as the fastest internet in the world

Average download speed: 36.37Mbps

Average upload speed: 28.51Mbps

World’s average speed: 9.43Mbps

Europe’s average speed: 12.99Mbps

One of the Fastest Internet in the World

1st in Europe to launch an electric bike « Rent & Share » system

An inclusive publictransport system

An efficient bicycle sharing system

A high-quality city taxy service

Modern and ConvenientBus Tickets

70% of the city’s inhabitants use public transportations!

Vilniečio Kortelė : a flexible and universal e-Ticket usable for different kind of public transports

M.Ticket : a smartphone app that allows to purchase any kind of public transportation tickets, check the schedules and plan trips

AppStore: http://tinyurl.com/pe22bwsGooglePlay: http://tinyurl.com/nnx2q9v

http://www.vilniustransport.lt/en/

Source: nytimes.com

Tasty Vilnius The culinary guide to the city to make the most of it’s

gastronomic potential

Detailed map of the best pubs, bars and restaurants of the Capital

Unique Activities

Team Building events: Canoe Polo, Swamp Tour, High Tech Treasure Hunts…

Discover the city from Hot Air Balloons

Have dinner on top of the highest structure of the country – the 327m-high TV Tower

Numerous free-access sports infrastructures

Sports everywhere

Vilnius is crazy about basketballThe city hosted the EuroBasket 2011 and

provides the world with many talented players

Municipality program Sveikas Miestas (healthy city) provides free-access to outdoor activities for all: Tai-Chi, Nordic Walking, Fitness, Ping-Pong and many others

Zydrunas Savickas is a profesional strongman and is usually titled the all-time strongest time in the world.

The strongest man in the world

6 times in a row, he won the prestigious context « Arnold’s Strongest Man »

Not only does he live in Vilnius, he also is a member of the city council

On August the 23rd of 1989, from Vilnius to Tallin, over 2 million people held hand to oppose the Soviet regime.

An important place forLithuanian Independence

On 2013, the Mayors of the 3 Baltic Capitals gathered in Vilnius to celebrate this memory

A meeting place for the greatest names

The Dalai-Lama visited Vilnius in September 2013

The Prince of Denmark tested -and approved the bicycle sharing system

On the occasion of the Lithuanian presidency of the EU, Vilnius hosted a series of summits and welcomed the heads of State and officials of the continent

In 2011, Mayor Artūras Zuokas raised the world’s attention to illegal parking by staging the destruction of a car parked in a city’s bike line with a tank. The video went viral -7 millions views

Home of a viral video

He was awarded with lg Nobel Peace Prize for « demonstrating that the problem of illegaly luxury parked cars can be solved by running over them with a tank

Our Contact Details Vilnius city

municipality administration

Konstitucijos pr. 3, LT-09601 Vilnius

Phone: +370 5 211 2330

Fax: +370 5 211 2331

E-mail: international@vilnius.lt vrt@vilnius.lt

VILNIUSCapital of Lithuania

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