Palanga - "dacha" Lithuanian town, stretching for 25 km along the coast of the Baltic Sea .The charm of this resort is the Baltic landscapes with their pine groves, endless whitish dunes and full of fragrances and fresh sea breeze by the coastal mixed forests .Despite its reputation as an aristocratic "health resort", acquired at the end of the 19th century by the efforts of the counts of the Tyszkiewicz, Palanga remained a quiet, small country cottage, not without its gastronomic islet islands and hotel comforts..

Palanga is suitable for those who prefer a summer full of freshness and evening coolness, deserted beaches, hiking and cycling tours among pine forests, promenades with small artisans and art shops, chamber jazz evenings on open verandas, sunsets on piers and smoked sea delicacies.

This is an ideal place to relax with children. A shining climate will save them from burns and solar overheating, and the sea air, saturated with iodine, will help to forget about colds and colds. In a luxurious botanical park, stretching for many kilometers along the coastline, they can watch and feed swans, ducks and squirrels, and on the central promenade of Basanavicius - find many local delicacies such as corrugated wafers in chocolate or pancakes with fresh berries and whipped cream, and an attraction for every taste and age.

The Palanga Tourist Information Center is located at Vitauto, 106.

How to call

8-10-370-36-telephone number

How to get to Palanga

Palanga is 26 km north of Klaipeda and 331 km north-west of Vilnius .The surest way is to get on a comfortable corporate train to Vilnius (a compartment ticket round-trip in the summer will cost around 140 EUR, 12 hours) .A five-minute walk from Vilnius railway station there is a bus station from which buses leave for Palanga .There is also an exchange money point with a good exchange rate .The ticket can be purchased without problems on the spot .Buses depart approximately every 1, 5-2 hours, cost about 70 litas (800 rubles) per adult, benefits for children, 4, 5 hours en route with stops along the route and one 15-minute stop for "airing" .While waiting for the bus, you can leave your luggage in the storage room and take a stroll through the Old Town - it's only 10-15 minutes walk from the bus station .

Sometimes a special wagon is added to the train of Moscow-Vilnius, which, when arriving in the Lithuanian capital, is transferred to the train to Klaipeda. From Klaipeda to Palanga - 30-40 minutes by shuttle. But information on this route must be known in advance at the railway station's ticket offices.

Also in the near future, Moscow-Palanga flights are planned, because the Lithuanian resort has its own international airport. Alternatively, you can already get here by plane to Riga and from there to Palanga (ticket price is from 80 EUR, but there is a significant restriction on the size and weight of luggage: hand luggage 40x20x55 and not more than 8 kg, the preponderance will cost 60 euros!). You can also fly to Kaliningrad and get on the bus to Klaipeda by bus, but this is the most tiring route.

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A bit of history

For the first time these lands are mentioned in written monuments of 1161. According to legend, here lived the priestess-wyrdletka Biruta, who became the wife of the ancestor of the family of the Lithuanian princes Gedimin Keystut and the mother of Vitaut the Great, who divided power in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the elder brother Olgerd in 1345.

Until the beginning of the 19th century, the local settlement was no different from the many fishing villages of the Baltic coast, but in 1824 these lands, then belonging to the province of Courland, are purchased by the Lithuanian Count Mykolas Tyszkiewicz .In the late 70's, his descendant Jozapas Tyszkiewicz decides to turn Palanga into a resort city in the manner of popular at that time among the aristocracy of German health resorts .He builds the first hotel complex in the city center, which includes a restaurant, builds a summer theater, landscapes the beaches with changing cabins and marble baths with heated water .In the forest coastal strip, special walking paths are laid, and in 1884-1888 the main street of the town continues into the sea by a promenade pier and a berth accepting ships from Liepaja .(Over time, the pier was destroyed by storms and sand deposits, and in 1997 a new pier was built, outgoing to the sea at 470 meters .)

In 1893, after the death of the count, his son Felix invites the famous French landscape architect Edouard François Andre, who, together with his son Rene Andre and the Belgian gardener Bouissen de Coulombs, breaks in the southern part of the village a luxurious English garden with a pond and rose garden, numbering today more than 200 plants and up to 60 species of birds $ $ .In 1897, under the project of the German architect Franz Schwechten in the center of the park, the construction of a count's residence with a chamber chapel begins..The resort part of the town is replenished with clinics, summer villas, sports and gymnastic grounds, tennis courts, riding arenas and warm baths with thermal water .Now well-known doctors from Warsaw, Lodz and Vilnius work here .Thus, by the beginning of the 1920s Palanga easily competes with Baden-Baden and other large resorts in Germany .

Currency

National currency - Lithuanian litas, 1Lt is approximately 12 Russian rubles .Many hotels and private sector entrepreneurs prefer the calculation in EUR, but only citations are accepted in cafes, restaurants and shops .Banks work only on weekdays and usually up to 17 .00-18 .00 hours on Friday even less, so it's best to have money on a credit card - ATM points are scattered all over the city and are available around the clock .Also, bank cards are accepted for payment in hotels, restaurants and large stores and supermarkets .Commission fee for exchange and withdrawal of money - 1-1, 2 EUR .

Climate Palanga

March 1, Sunday Overcast +4 ° С in the day +2 ° С at night ° С water	March 2, Monday Overcast, light rain +4 ° С in the day +4 ° С at night ° С water	March 3, Tuesday Partly cloudy, light rain +3 ° С a day +2 ° С at night ° С water
Palanga weather forecast for 10 days

The climate of Palanga is suitable for people who prefer a cool, soft summer to the exhausting heat..The climate here is very moody and changeable, and guessing for sure what the weather will be on the days chosen by you, in advance it is practically impossible .The months July and August are considered to be the most stable: the air temperature is at + 25 ° C, the water temperature + 17 ... + 19 ° C, many sunny days, which can however be replaced by short thunderstorms .Along the coast, the wind is constantly walking, but you can take sun baths by hiding in the dunes .Bathing - for the bravest and hardened, but sneezing people and children, due to saturated with iodine vapor of the sea air, there are no .See also the current weather forecast in Palanga for the next few days .

Palanga hotels

Palanga has the widest range of hotels, guest houses and private apartments of varying comfort and value: from the luxurious five-star Palanga hotel with a state-of-the-art spa just 50 meters from the sea and to the most minimalistic budget options like renting a house or room in the private sector .

More expensive housing is concentrated near the central pedestrian zone - Basanavicius Street and in the nearby green quarter stretching along the coastline to the Botanical Park .Accommodation here is convenient and pleasant in that all the highlights of the resort - the sea, park and promenade zones, cafes, restaurants, clubs, attractions, market and t .д .- are in walking distance, and small private villas, usually having their own restaurants, offer very cozy rooms and apartments decorated with a special local charm and coloring .

You can go and in the Soviet manner - at random (if you certainly have a valid Lithuanian visa), in the holiday season to the bus station to arriving buses locals are being pulled up, offering rooms and apartments. A complete list of the most popular hotels in the city is available on the Palanga hotels page.

Local cuisine

Noteworthy for all local catering establishments, no matter what cuisine they specialize in and in whatever price segment they work, is the offer of traditional Lithuanian dishes such as potato pancakes with various fillings (vegetables, mushrooms, meat) - zepelins, cold borscht on kefir , fried potato zrazy with a filling - zhamayscu, soup with dumplings and t .д .Also here you should definitely try smoked fish and, of course, eel, various grades of dark bread, local pastries, confectionery masterpieces and, of course, the famous Lithuanian curd cheeses - sour, sweet, with cumin, hard, soft, which are eaten with honey .

The gastronomic center of the city is the central promenade of Basanavičius (J .Basanaviciaus) .There are many cafes, barbecues, restaurants and fast snack places with open verandas for every taste and wallet..Especially "pleasant" reputation is enjoyed by the De Cuba restaurants with patio and singing fountains, Cagino (Russian cuisine), Ukrainietiski vakarai (Ukrainian Evenings) .The elegant fish restaurant Zuvine with a private balcony terrace belongs to the fashionable establishments that you will instantly feel in the interior, service and gastronomic delights of the fishhouse .A more relaxed contemplative atmosphere is offered by the coastal restaurant of Smelio takas (15-20 minutes walk on 10 bike path from st. .Basanavicius) and the cafe-bar of the Meduza hotel with a wooden playground for children lined up in a pine forest a hundred meters from the sea .

Active rest is

Beach rental and marine entertainment centers offer water bike tours, jet ski, surfing .On the beach to the north of the pier there are volleyball courts, in the city there are 6 underground tennis courts (for more details tel..8-460-528-28), bike rental (there are two special routes of 10 km each, laid in a forest area along the coast) and roller skates and mini-golf for children .On the way to Klaipeda there is a stud farm that organizes horseback riding .In the city pool (st $ .Vanagupes, 20) in summer there is an outdoor terraced pool with heating - on a cloudy capricious day, you can swim and enjoy fun in the 36-degree water .

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