Little-known Vilnius is having its moment (Picture: Getty Images)

Winding cobbled alleyways. A bohemian quarter with Baroque architecture. Michelin-starred restaurants and moodily lit jazz bars. It sounds like Paris , but this is what awaits visitors in Vilnius , Lithuania ’s pocket-sized and underexplored capital .

The tourism board is willing to laugh at its obscurity, declaring the country the ‘G-spot of Europe’ — ‘amazing, but nobody knows where it is’.

Beyond the city’s 700-year-old walls is a charming town still reckoning with its complex past, where brutalist Soviet architecture meets high-end boutiques and a rapidly blossoming food scene.

It’s been more than 30 years since Lithuania gained independence from the USSR, but the buzz of freedom is still in the air. And,

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