Curonian Spit

Lithuania's State Border Guard Service said on Monday it had signed a contract on the installation of cameras along the country's land border of almost two kilometers with Russia's Kaliningrad Region on the Curonian Spit.

The dunes of the Curonian Spit, the Hill of Crosses, Trakai Castle on its lake island, Vilnius Old Town and Palanga bridge during sunset.

On 3 July, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania handed over a verbal note to the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Vilnius in response to information that had appeared in the public domain regarding serious environmental violations on the D-6 offshore platform on the continental shelf of ...

An "unprecedented" amount of substance believed to be paraffin wax has been washed up on beaches in the Lithuanian part of the Curonian Spit, an official said on Wednesday.

Pieces of a substance similar to paraffin wax that were found washed up on Lithuania's beaches last week apparently came from Russia's Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad, the Environmental Protection Department said on Monday.

More and more tourists find Baltic countries appealing when they are choosing their new destinations. Lithuania sees the growing number of foreigners that are interested in seeing not only the capital of the country Vilnius but also the beauty of the rest of Lithuania.

The Lithuanian government decided on Wednesday to put an end to efforts to approve adjustments to the Curonian Spit National Park's maintenance plan, which means that illegal buildings on the sand dune peninsula, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will be pulled down.

A valuable collection of books has been handed over to the Thomas Mann Memorial Museum in Lithuania's Curonian Spit resort of Nida, LRT Television has reported.

Lithuanian airspace must be respected, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said on Monday after two Russian military aircraft last week entered the country's territory over its territorial waters.

The state forest service and forest officials have responded to more than 320 potential fires in forests this year, but the Ministry of Environment has said that the terrible Curonian spit forest fires of 2014 will not happen again. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking ...

Spending a night at a hotel in Lithuania's seaside or lakeside resorts has become as expensive as booking accommodation in Italy or Greece.

As Lithuania's Geological Service prepares to look for contractors to survey an amber deposit near the seaside resort of Juodkrantė, the local Neringa municipality is considering to ban amber extraction for commercial purposes.

France is considering to build a monument on Lithuania's Curonian Spit to commemorate French soldiers who perished here during nineteenth-century military conflicts.

This week, representatives from seven Baltic countries gathered in Vilnius to prepare a unified tourism project that would unite all of the UNESCO World Heritage sites found throughout these countries. This beautiful skyscape over the Baltic Sea near the Lithuanian town of Nida is just one of the si...

The representatives of seven Baltic countries have gathered in Vilnius to create a new unified tourism project to link all the UNESCO World Heritage sites across the Baltic.

Lithuania's resort Neringa will charge a fee of €20 per car entering the Curonian Spit during the summer peak season.

A Lithuanian MP recently suggested that Russian soldiers may have landed on Lithuanian soil during a military exercise two years ago.

MP Artūras Paulauskas says his statements several weeks ago about a possible landing of Russian forces on the Lithuanian coast were "hypothetical".

Russian OMRP Spetsnaz units may have landed on the coast of Juodkrantė two years ago. This suggestion by the chairman of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee Artūras Paulauskas, has caused considerable turmoil and concern.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė has refused to comment on reports that Russians could have landed on Lithuanian territory on the Curonian Spit, saying that no comments should be expected from officers either.