Holidays with Children in Palanga

Explore Palanga not only as a seaside holiday destination, but also as a beautiful resort with many places to visit.

Holidays with Children in Palanga – Palanga Tourism Information Center invites you to take a walk around Palanga together. Let’s visit the most beautiful squares, avenues and fountains, go to Šventoji, and, of course, let’s enjoy swimming in the Baltic Sea.

Holidays with Children in Palanga

Palanga Fairy Tale Park

Since the August of 2016, a park of Lithuanian fairy tales operates in Palanga. It is attracting visitors not only with a very cozy environment, playful sculptures, but also with unconventional solutions – fairy tales can not only be “touched” here, but also heard.

Each of them can be not only admired, but also “tested” – one can climb, turn individual parts of the sculptures or otherwise play with them. According to the curator of the artistic part of this project, A. Petkus, when creating the sculptures, great attention was paid not only to their attractiveness, but, most importantly, to their artistic expressions.

There is an information board near each sculpture. On the board, you can not only read the fairy tale, but also, by pressing a special button, hear it narrated by Inga Valinskienė’s voice. For now, stories of interest to children will be told only in Lithuanian and English, in the future the tales will be voiced in several other foreign languages.

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Children’s Park

In a quiet place surrounded by pine forests, next to a bicycle path and right next to the sea, an oasis of joy has been created for the little ones. This is the very popular Children’s Park. In the play park located at the intersection of Naglis Alley and Šermukšnių Street, the little ones can enjoy free entertainment for them. There’s the colorful sea-themed play equipment up to 7 meters high, various swings, swings and carousels for children of all ages.

To make it safe for the little ones to play, the entire area is fenced. Surveillance cameras are installed, and the park is lit. The structures of all facilities are made of glued wood and plastic. The playgrounds are filled with beach sand.

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Birute Park

Birute Park was established on the territory of the former sacred Birutė Forest and Birutė Mountain. The landscape plan park project was created by the famous French architect Eduardas François Andres at the end of the 19th century on the order of Tiškevičius. The talentedly designed park is characterized by a wide variety of views and moods. It has skillfully laid out paths and flower beds on the grounds. Here, on the land of the former Tiškevičiai estate, there were swamps covered with reeds until then. On the order of the counts, ponds were dug in this place, and the soil was used for the embankment of the future mansion.

In 1897, a Neo-Renaissance style palace was built on it, which currently houses the famous Amber Museum.

Birutė Park is a great place for quiet and cozy family recreation, so parents with babies, young people and older Palangi residents and guests enjoy spending their free time here.

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J. Basanavičius Street and the Sea Bridge

This is the central street of the city. Previously, this street was called Tiškevičius street or boulevard. in 1924 Palanga was visited by Dr. Jonas Basanavičius. In honor of the nation’s patriarch, the people of Palanga named Tiškevičius boulevard after J. Basanavičius.

It is hard to imagine Palanga without the sea bridge – it is a place that attracts everyone who comes to the country’s largest resort. The bridge offers a wonderful view of the dunes, the yellow beach and the endless sea. Here you can listen to the roar of the sea, the cry of seagulls, and in the evening you can sit comfortably on the benches and enjoy the last rays of the sun setting into the sea with your loved ones.

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Birute Mountain

When walking around one of the most beautiful places in Palanga – the Birute Park – make sure to visit the Birutė mountain. Here, on the land of the former Tiškevičiai manor, the hundred-year-old Birutė pine forest, considered sacred, has remained undisturbed, surrounding the legendary Birutė mountain, which rises 21 meters above sea level and offers a beautiful view of the roaring sea.

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The Alley of Tiskeviciai

More than 120 years ago, the authentic alley created by Count Juozaps Tiskevicius was Palanga’s first park and then the center of the resort. These days, the alley for walking stretches from Kurhaus to Kestutis street, and while walking along this path you can also visit the Palanga concert hall and participate in various events. The Alley of Tiskeviciai, popular with Palanga residents and city guests, has become a popular place for walks and dates.

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The Church of St. Mary and Observation Deck

The church was built more than a hundred years ago. The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary attracts the attention of almost every passer-by with its neo-Gothic beauty and grandeur. Once inside, there is also something to admire: the impressive pulpit and three artistic altars decorated with bas-reliefs are made of marble imported from France. In the central altar, there is a picture of the Mother of God mentioned already in the 17th century. The other two wooden altars in the side aisles are transferred from the earlier wooden church.

In the viewing area, the area of ​​which is about 18 sq. m., you can not only admire Palanga from a bird’s eye view, but also view the mechanisms of the church clock and bell. In order to admire the church bells, visitors just have to look up – since the observation deck is located in the bell zone, the curious will see the impressively large bells and their mechanism right above their heads.

Musical Fountain

The new fountain surprises entertainers in the warm season with a dance of music, light and water. You can choose a favorite melody to which the fountain will dance by sending an SMS message from a special playlist. Ordering a song performed by the dancing fountain costs 3 euros. Every day, entertainers are delighted with free hour-long shows. Depending on the selected piece of music, the height and direction of the water jets changes, as well as the lighting of the fountain. According to the work, the water jets are controlled by special computer equipment. According to the direction and strength of the wind, the computer equipment of the fountain automatically adjusts the height and angle of the water jets.

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Palanga Sculpture Park

Located in the center of the city, at the intersection of Vytautas and J. Simpsonas streets, the Sculpture Park not only catches the eye of passers-by – in the summer it becomes a place of attraction for those who like to relax with family, children or friends. In the sculpture park, visitors can admire as many as 28 sculptures, which were transferred to the care of the Palanga City Municipality by the Lithuanian Art Museum.

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Thumbnails Mini Gallery

This is a gallery of outdoor art – exceptional size, designed for exhibiting miniatures, admission is free, you can view the exhibition 24 hours a day, every day of the week. Currently, it exhibits the latest works of the artist V. Kusas, made in watercolor, pencil, oil or plastic.

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Sculpture Park of the Health Center “Energetikas” – “Stone Age”

The park is located in the harmonious and open territory of the “Energetikas” Health Center. Here, in a unique space created in 2005 by the efforts of doctors and artists, the health center fosters deep healing traditions. organized international stone sculpture symposium annually attracts more and more professional sculptors of various generations from Lithuania, Austria, France and other EU countries, as well as from the USA, Russia, and Belarus. The “Stone Age” sculpture park is currently delighting everyone with 50 stone sculptures that demonstrate the mastery of sculptors and reveal ancient traditions in a modern context.

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Running track “Labrytys”

Lovers of active exercise will find themselves at the wellness path “Labrytys” stretching through the pine forest near the seaside Children’s Park. Here you can run or go around the 6-kilometer-long forest path forming a large ring, and during your breaks you can exercise in the five active recreation areas on the “Labrytys” trail with outdoor exercise equipment and sports equipment. This innovation was soon tested and appreciated by the residents of Palanga, sports enthusiasts vacationing in the resort have already liked exercising in the forest.

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Zemaiciai alka

During your stay in Sventoji, be sure to visit the Zemaicai alka. The alka is located on a dune near the Energetikas health center, at the end of Jonpapartio Street. This is 1998 rebuilt pagan sanctuary with paleo-astronomical observatory. It’s all since 15th century standing on Birute mountain in Palanga. During the reconstruction of the pagan sanctuary, wooden pillars carved by folk artists were erected in Zemaiciai alka. Each of them corresponding to the names of white mythological gods and goddesses: Thunder, Ausrine, Zemyna, Austeja, Ondenis, Patrimpas, Patulas, Velnias (Devil), Leda, Saule (Sun) and Menulis (Moon).

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Sculpture “Fisherman’s Daughters”

In 1982, an impressive 4-meter-high sculptural composition “Fisherman’s Daughters” was erected in the dunes, at the gates of Šventoji port. These are three long-haired girls looking out to sea, waiting for their father to return from fishing.

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Monkey Bridge

It is a swinging, hanging bridge over the Šventoji river, often called the symbol of Šventoji. The bridge was built in 1973.

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