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The 52m-high Parnidis Dune is simultaneously mighty and fragile. Past settlements around Nida have been engulfed by the moving sand dune but this is a…
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Old Baltic legends say it was the giantess Neringa who created Curonian Spit, and her masterpiece is surely Nida. Its hazy pine forests clasp Parnidis Dune, the largest on the peninsula. Boardwalks snake up to the height of the dune, a huge crest of wind-caressed sand that offers golden views into Russian Kaliningrad. Down in Nida village, brightly painted wooden houses and puffing fish smokeries work their magic on visitors.
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This delightful woodland cemetery features some fine examples of krikštai (wooden grave markers). Their origins hark back to Lithuania's pagan roots and…
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In an old fisher's hut on the northern side of town is this museum and shop devoted to amber. Staff introduce the mythic and supposed health-boosting…
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Curonian Spit's three defining traditional crafts, fishing, crow-catching and amber collecting, are explained within this small regional museum. Look out…
Ethnographic Fisherman's Museum
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The Ethnographic Museum is a peek at Nida in the 19th century, with original weathervanes decorating the garden, and rooms inside arranged as they were a…
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The German writer and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann used to own this beautifully situated villa, which is now a museum with numerous original possessions…
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This graceful red-brick church dates to 1888. Its peaceful woodland cemetery is pinpricked with krikstai – crosses carved from wood to help the deceased…
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This small museum, occupying a hotel dating to 1867, commemorates the famous artists that have stayed here: Thomas Mann, Ludwig Passarge and (not least)…
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