Description Nida, Lithuania

Nida - a village on the Curonian Spit in Lithuania. Nida is a member of one of the best known and most environmentally friendly resort areas of the country - Neringa. During the summer, tourists come here to relax on the beaches and feel the healing properties of the local climate. Nida's sandy beaches, they stretch along the entire coast. A distinctive feature of Nida, which attracts tourists, is the unique nature and clean air. Virtually all the beaches had been awarded an honorary category of "blue flag", as an environmentally friendly recreational areas.

Nida is located just 30 meters from the shore of the Curonian Lagoon and in 1,5 km from the sea. Nida is in the Curonian Spit National Park, where you can see unique plants and wildlife.

Nowadays, the number of tourists visiting Nida is not so large (about fifty thousand each year) because of the small number of seats to accommodate (as in Nida only allowed to rebuild the old houses or build new homes on the site of the old, build up the same territory can not be free) very high prices for accommodation, the need to pay for the ferry to Klaipeda and for the right to enter the territory of the spit.

Nida is mainly visited by tourists from Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Germany.

Every traveler is sure to be found here on their liking - mushrooms, berries (especially numerous in the forests of the Curonian Spit blueberries), rowing and yachting, walking along the embankment of Nida and Juodkrantė, visiting local attractions - mountains of Witches, Amber Galleries, the Naval Museum and Dolphinarium.

In Nida be interesting to look at local houses, which are now fully restored and amaze your style, and genuinely popular design. Many of them have now become modern private hotel. In Nida almost every house - is a cafe, pub or hotel, immersed in flowers. Within a hundred meters necessarily come across on the machine from which you can call anywhere in the world.

Winter Nida seems abandoned: fishing boats near the pier, closed hotels, clean bright wooden cottages are hidden among the pine trees in anticipation of summer crowds.

Since 2000 in Nida, each year a festival of jazz. In the village and its surroundings tourists can see the dunes (among the highest in Europe), large sundial, Ethnographic Museum, Museum of amber and neo-Gothic church built in 1888. Near the village is located campsite.

Above the lagoon stands the house where the 20-ies, Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain. Nobel Prize in Literature, Thomas Mann lived in Nida from 1930 to 1932. His house survived, and now there is a cultural center dedicated to the writer, and a small memorial exhibition.

Rest in Nida is best suited for lovers of solitude, silence and calm, so necessary in urban areas.