Curonian Spit National Park was established on April 23rd, 1991 by the Act of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania "to preserve the most valuable complex of Lithuanian seaside with its unique landscape and the dune ridge, natural and ethno cultural heritage, for sustainable use and its care".
According to the Law of Protected Areas in the Republic of Lithuania, Curonian Spit National Park is protected by the state. In the classification of IUCN (The World Conservation Union), KNNP has been recognized as Category II. Curonian Spit National Park has been a member of EUROPARC federation since 1997.
You'll find here wonderful Juodkrante, Nida, Smiltyne, Pervalka and Preila resort towns.
With our tour you can see:
- The Nida lighthouse, erected on the forested Urbas Hill in 1874
- Sites of Narva Culture settlements from Early Neolithic
- Sites of Rope Ceramics Culture settlements from Late Neolithic
- Sites of Early Bronze Age settlements
- Sites of old Nida settlement and its cemetery (from the 14th until the 18th century), which were buried by sand.
- Valley of Death
- The Site of Gliding School. The Lithuanian Gliding School existed there between 1933 and 1939. Between 1939 and 1943 it had been used as a school by German military air force.
- Nida Foresters' Cemetery
- The Old Nida Cemetery
- The house of Nida's artist-photographer P. Isenfeld. In the period between World War I and World War II, P. Isenfeld published many postcards, which represented nature, landscapes and daily life of the Curonian Spit.
- The summerhouse of Nobel price laureate, writer T. Mann. The house was built by architect H. Reimann. The writer spent three summers in it (1930-1932). Today the Thomas Mann Culture Center and the memorial exposition are located in this house.
- Evangelic Lutheran Church
- Old building - former warehouse |
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