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Nov 21, 2024

　　This graceful red-brick church dates to 1888. Its peaceful woodland cemetery is pinpricked with krikstai – crosses carved from wood to help the deceased ascend to heaven more easily.

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Nida Cemetery
Curonian Spit National Park
　　This delightful woodland cemetery features some fine examples of krikštai (wooden grave markers). Their origins hark back to Lithuania's pagan roots and these wooden markers with symmetrical carvings of plants, birds and more have been traditionally placed at the foot of a grave for centuries. Since the 19th century, the...
Hermann Blode Museum
Curonian Spit National Park
　　This small museum, occupying a hotel dating to 1867, commemorates the famous artists that have stayed here: Thomas Mann, Ludwig Passarge and (not least) Engelbert Humperdinck. ...
Thomas Mann Memorial Museum
Curonian Spit National Park
　　The German writer and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann used to own this beautifully situated villa, which is now a museum with numerous original possessions. Mann spent each summer between 1930 and 1932 here, with his wife and children, before fleeing Germany in 1933. ...
Ethnographic Fisherman's Museum
Curonian Spit National Park
　　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 couple of centuries ago. Check out a traditional fishing vessel in the garden and the thicket of weathervanes. ...
Amber Gallery
Curonian Spit National Park
　　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 properties of this fossilised resin. Visitors can peer through magnifying glasses at insects trapped in amber and explore the amber-ornamented garden. The museum doubles...
Evangelical-Lutheran Church
Curonian Spit National Park
　　This graceful red-brick church dates to 1888. Its peaceful woodland cemetery is pinpricked with krikstai – crosses carved from wood to help the deceased ascend to heaven more easily. ...
Parnidis Dune
Curonian Spit National Park
　　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 delicate landscape of mountain pines, meadows and fine blonde sand speckled with purple searocket flowers. A 1700m-long path picks its way to a grand panorama...
Neringa History Museum
Curonian Spit National Park
　　Curonian Spit's three defining traditional crafts, fishing, crow-catching and amber collecting, are explained within this small regional museum. Look out for images of hardy fishermen sending dragnets underneath the ice of the lagoon in midwinter. Other fascinating photographs depict local hunters biting a crow’s neck to kill it, then taking...
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