The Vilnius Companion

Baroque church spires, a self-declared artist republic across the river, and a hilltop tower watching over it all --- Lithuania's storied capital, with room to make it yours. The Vilnius Companion's signature chapter takes on a question most visitors never think to ask: The Republic Inside a Republic. One Vilnius neighborhood took the bohemian-artist-quarter concept to its logical extreme: it declared independence, wrote a constitution, and threw itself a national holiday.