Akropolis is the largest

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...

in the

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by floor area, a shopping center and

entertainment center An entertainment center (or centre), also known as an entertainment complex or a home entertainment center, is a piece of furniture designed to house consumer electronic appliances and components. It is sometimes a large cabinet with an exterior ...

Vilnius Vilnius ( , ) is the capital of and List of cities in Lithuania#Cities, largest city in Lithuania and the List of cities in the Baltic states by population, most-populous city in the Baltic states. The city's estimated January 2025 population w ...

, the Lithuanian capital. It was built in

Šeškinė Šeškinė (''literally'' ) is a district located in the north of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, built in 1977 as a microdistrict. It is located to the east of Justiniškės district, to the north and north-west of Žvėrynas and Šnipiškė ...

by Akropolis Group in 2002 and opened in April 2002 (at that time the area was 54,000 square meters). The bank " Hansa- LTB" financed the construction. The authors of the project "Akropolis" were architects Gediminas Jurevičius and

Algimantas Nasvytis Algimantas Nasvytis (8 April 1928 – 27 July 2018) was a Lithuanian architect. He was active in the pro-independence Sąjūdis movement and served as Minister of Construction and Urban Development in the first four Cabinets of Lithuania after L ...

from Vilnius. Interior project author was designer Unko Kunnap (

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).Vilniuje - prekybos ir pramogų kompleksas "Akropolis"
TOPsport There is a free car park next to the building. In Akropolis there are grocery stores, Maxima LT supermarket, shops etc. The shopping center also has a bookstore. The area has an area of 110,000 square meters. Not far away is the other shopping center, PC Ozas, built by German companies. Vilnius_Akropolis.jpg, 2006 Akropolis ball for eurobasket 2011 in Vilnius.jpg,

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