While rushing by taking hasty steps and driven by a winder of thoughts, we do not even think of the things hidden in the pavement of the stone street and the standing walls of the red brick buildings we are rushing through. Vilnius Street is the main and oldest road of Kaunas City, the history of which commenced in the Middle Ages.

Although this street was called the Great Street and the Long Street, the name of Vilnius Street impost itself best, since it was a part of the road to Vilnius in the Middle Ages. Most of the buildings were wooden, and later the rich city residents began to construct their houses of red bricks and some of them have survived to this day. Like the first buildings, the very streets were wooden, i.e. the roadway was paved with logs and the pavement was paved with boards. Subsequently, this surface was replaced by stones and are used by pedestrians up to the present day.

Vilnius Street is a constantly pulsed vein of the Old Town, tempting with its exceptional architecture. Kaunas Cathedral Basilica of Saint Apostles Peter and Paul, built back in the 15th century, became the heart of Kaunas. In 1921, on the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the founding of the Diocese of Samogitia, Pope Benedict XV awarded the title of Small Basilica to the Cathedral and in 5 years’ time which it became an Arch-Cathedral with a throne of the Archbishop's Metropolitan. After various reconstructions, the Arch-Cathedral Basilica gained Renaissance, Baroque, Gothic features and has remained the largest monument of this style in Lithuania up till now.

The historical Presidential Palace of the Republic of Lithuania are also in Vilnius Street. In 1919-1940, when Kaunas became the temporary capital, the President’s Office of the Republic of Lithuania was established here. During the inter-war years three presidents of the Republic of Lithuania worked and lived in the Palace: Antanas Smetona, Aleksandras Stulginskis and Kazys Grinius. Now this historical building is a branch of the M.K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art.

At different time of the day Vilnius Street tells a different story hidden inside: during the daytime – via the lives of people rushing through it and at night – via romantic adventures illuminated by the lights. Nevertheless, the most beautiful stories wake up only with the rising sun, when the stone pavement and masonry of the walls get drowned in the first beams of the sun.