Sights Palanga, Lithuania

In Palanga is all for a good full rest - tennis courts, basketball and football grounds, magnificent beaches, a lot of cozy restaurants, cafes, etc. The city has many pedestrian streets, and for cyclists and fans of movies is specially designed track. Bike paths connect the center of Palanga from borough Sventoji (12 km) and Vydmantai (4 km). Bicycles and videos can be rented in many rest homes, sanatoria, hotels, guest houses or on the street.

J. Basanavičiaus Street Pier - the most popular among holidaymakers. Here you can walk, buy souvenirs and sit in a cafe. The old tradition of holiday-makers - to admire the extraordinary in its beauty sunset on the pier.

Among the most striking landmarks can be identified Palanga Amber Museum. Relation to amber in Baltics special. "We - the Baltic states, and in our veins flows Amber" - said the Lithuanian poet Eduardas Mezhyalaytis. In Lithuanians have a belief that amber - it tears a national heroine Jurate, who from time to time throws the sea.

Botanical Park - is one of the most beautiful and landscaped parks in Lithuania, which was founded in the late 19 century, the famous French architect and landscape painter Edouard Francois Andre. In the park you can feed the ducks floating in a pond and swans and a walk in the paths fringed with trees.

Mount Birutes located on the south-west of the Amber Museum. This mountain became famous as a shrine of the Gentiles, and was the place of observation of celestial phenomena. Today Birute hill - a quiet, peaceful place, where love to spend time loving couples. At the foot of the mountain, in Lurdase based graph Tishkevich, conducted in the summer reading poetry. From Birute hill called breathtaking panoramic views.