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What is the future of Kaunas Castle? Should the remaining authentic features be restored or should a kitsch variant of Vilnius Royal Palace be created? In order to protect the most important historical sign of Kaunas from political speculations or other mad ideas, an unusually extensive meeting of Kaunas Architecture and Urbanism Experts’ Council (KAUET) was organised.
It appears that the usual “Ite, missa est” may mean something else in addition to an end. Pažaislis Music Festival started in such words is going to be interesting and unusual. The future will show what it will be; on another hand, every end encourages to wait for a new beginning.
In order to weed the bed of literature provincialism, the youth of literature criticism announces the end for all contemporary maironiai, salomėjas and similar “grands” of Lithuanian literature, to all epigones and graphomaniacs hiding heads under the aureole of “high culture”.
The road of every new architecture and city planning project to the city is like a constant attempt to raise the city from chaos. It is typical to considerations of projects of Kaunas Architecture and Urbanism Experts’ Council in Kaunas old town and industrial quarter.
