Šventoji – in the resort town of Palanga on the Baltic fishermen, in the North of the City municipality, 12 km from the Centre of Palanga. Šventoji is the Šventoji River on the left bank (through it pass 3 bridges), it flows into the Baltic Sea. In the year 1542 Holy marked H. Celijus on a map. Šventoji in the 16th century became the campus. J. Basanavičius in his book "the History Of Palanga" claims that Šventoji port in question was first discussed in 1589 on the Warsaw Parliament.
Šventoji resort places to visit :
Built in 1957, 39 m high Šventoji beacon, to which you can climb up to the lighthouse during the Global day and another glance in from the top to look at the thing in a great town, and here also you can see the sea.
In the year of independence by the architects G. Aperavičius and R. Krištapavičius project built in the modern Church of the Holy Trinity Church. The Virgin Mary, Star of the Sea Church, with bell tower.
Būtingė Evangelical Lutheran Church - in the year 1520 in Šventoji was built by the Catholic Church. After 1540 a priest adapt at the Lutheran Church and residing there curonians became closer to church.
In the year 1988 restored pagan place of worship with the paleoastronomic Observatory, in the 15th century standing on a hill call Birutė in Palanga that situated on the dunes near the sanatorium "Energetikas" at the end of the street call Jonpapartis. The Sun lets you into the sea, looking at the lineup of posts can be calculated from the emissions of shadow came pagan times calendar holidays.
Built in 1973 the monkey bridge. It is a rolling, a suspension bridge over The River, often referred to as the Holy symbol. The bridge was recently updated.
Health Center "Energetikas" sculpture park – the "Stone age" which is built about 50 sculptures. From 2005 onwards, is organised by the international stone sculpture symposium each year attracts more and more at various times by professional sculptors from Lithuania, Austria, France and other EU countries, as well as from the United States, Russia, Belarus.
In the year 1982 in the dunes of Šventoji, built an impressive 4 metres the height of the sculptural composition - "Fisherman's daughters". It is three in the sea long hair girls, forward-looking pending the returning father. This year has created a sculpture of an by Zusanna Pranaitytė in 1982. This is one of the Šventoji embellishments, which everyone can see the ancient port at the Šventoji gate. Once upon a time, these three girls was Šventoji pride.
1921-1922 plan drawn up by the Šventoji was equipped with a depth of 7-8 on a port, the sea is about 930 m long southern clay and 850 m long North pier. Piers remains to date.
Sculpture "Baltic dawn"-the sea and the Sunrise forward-looking pending women's granite sculpture of the "Baltic dawn" you can see on the outskirts of the southern Šventoji. This sculpture of 1990 created previously stood in Palanga, but 2009 m transferred to the Šventoji.
Limit sign - pylon marks the border between Lithuania and Latvia, at Šventoji.
The trail of small and large-just a couple of kilometers away from The town, amidst the forest range installed and a children's playground "Channel for small and large. The tracks are decorated with humoristic and folk masters of wood sculpture. Cognitive path station introduces the history and ethnography of this edge. In this place you'll find riding a drive toward the Liepaja. For the Evangelical Lutheran Church, before the bridge, turn right.
The water tower - the concrete Tower of the Šventoji with 600 m3 water tank was built in Soviet times.
The Šventoji cemetery - located in the east, near the route Klaipeda – Liepāja, located in the forest.
In Šventoji, in the Kopų street, near the monkey bridge was unveiled a monument to fighters for Lithuanian freedom historical trekking through the Baltic Sea in 1944-1953 in commemoration of the Lithuanian resistance against occupation in mind and the participants ' contacts with Western countries.
Būtingė petroleum terminal - 2 kilometres to the North of the Šventoji, located active Būtingė petroleum terminal.
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