Camino Lituano Music Festival "Piligrimas" is on the road, visiting concert venues in search of its listeners and inviting them to get to know and experience music up close. Travelling along the first and only Camino Lituano cultural, modern pilgrimage route, which is ready to be walked independently, stretching more than 1000 kilometres across Lithuania, the festival will present free concerts in ten Lithuanian cities.

 

The main route of the 500 kilometres of the Camino consists of 21 stages, stretching from Žagarė to Seinai. It is joined by additional branches that make the Camino Lituano accessible from other parts of Lithuania. Pilgrims are invited to travel through Žemaitija and Aukštaitija. The route is not just a marked route on a map. It is a living social, cultural and economic phenomenon, to which local communities also contribute. Pilgrims on the route visit churches, chapels, shrines, hillforts, cognitive trails, lookout towers, archaeological and natural monuments, museums, manors, historical and cultural heritage sites.

 

The pilgrimage in recent times has taken on a wider range of meanings and aspirations. It is a pilgrimage not only for religious or personal purposes, but also for cultural purposes. The Camino Lituano Music Festival invites urban communities, visitors and pilgrims to get in touch with classical music and hear four special musical stories in free concerts in the towns of Kėdainiai, Telšiai, Pakruojis, Joniškis, Kurtuvėnai, Raudondvaris, Alytus, Sali, Rudamina and Seda.