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Raimix Says: It is quite popular bridge here, connecting two sides of Sventoji river. By the way, Sventoji also takes name from river, also word "sventas" in Lithuanian means "saint".Bridge was probably constructed in Soviet times, as my parents told it already existed when I was very...
Sculpture "Daughters of fisherman"
Raimix Says: Sculpture "Daughters of fisherman" created in 1982 by Zuzana Pranaityte. The sculpture tells a story how daughters wait for their father fisherman to come back from the sea. In my personal point of view, it is one of the most interesting and fit-to-landscape sculptures in...
Church of St. Maria, a Star of the Sea
Raimix Says: Wooden church existed in Sventoji already in interwar times. The modern church that could be seen nowadays was built in 1991. It is one of the accents of Sventoji, quite tall one, easily visible at panorama. Anyway, as I am not too much modern art lover, church looks too...
Raimix Says: The place was found, as usually, at the internet. Jolanta rents flats and rooms for hot season time. The room was rented, it was a bit nostalgically soviet style, with two beds, table, fridge, balcony, there was also separate toilet and shower room. Only think I didn't like...
Po liepa: As Berlin's street - "Unter den Linden"
Raimix Says: Name of restaurant means "under the linden tree", as it is. I decided to visit it for drinking a few beers and trying their fried bread. It actually fulfilled my expectations, the service was good and fast, food - delicious. Place is more or less prefers Lithuanian meals and...
Londonas: London + as = UK capital in Lithuanian
Raimix Says: As it was summertime and quite hot days, again it was a time for beer and some fried bread :) I actually don't know if that friend bread is only Lithuanian specialty, as I haven't heard or ate it somewhere else (if someone from VT have such information, answers are...
Parselio rojus: Everything associated with pig
Raimix Says: One day I decided to visit one of the most popular restaurant in Lithuanian seaside - "Parselio rojus", that means actually "Pig's heaven". In design they try to put here everything, associated with pigs, at evening some special concerts take place.Anyway, I ordered pizza,...
Helpfulness
I was using car traveling to Sventoji. The route from Vilnius was enlarged, as I wanted also to see Nemunas bank small towns (Veliuona, Vytenai...). In other case, it is just possible to go Vilnius - Kaunas - Klaipeda autobahn, later take road to North through Palanga. Sventoji is about at border with Latvia. Anyway, to take public transportation to Sventoji is no problem at all also.
Updated Apr 24, 2012
Kretinga - famous winter garden
Raimix Says: Kretinga is a town, already not touched by a sea. Is it called "the capital of Lithuanian Franciscans", as they were invited here in 1602, built renaissance church, monastery and religic school. There buildings still left till these times. Kretinga is also famous for...
Darbenai - small Samogitian town
Raimix Says: Darbenai is a small town, known from 16 century. The name of Darbenai comes from river name "Darba". What is more, "darbas" is "work" in Lithuanian, it is old word, known already in Sanskrit.Here you could see church of St. Peter and St. Paul (19th century) as well as wooden...
Palanga - the most popular summer resort
Raimix Says: Palanga is the most famous Lithuanian resort, "a capital of summer". First time it was mentioned in 1253, but legend tells that Danish king Valdemar I visited Palanga already in 1161. Nowadays here you could see J. Basanaviciaus street, ending up with around 1\2 kilometers...
Sventoji - calm Lithuanian seaside place
I visited Sventoji in July of 2011, when I hade some free days at my work. This was a place I knew I visited before, but couldn't fix memories (as I was 2 - 3 years old). Time to come back :) First...
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