Archaeological objects and monuments
Mounds: Eketė (Ice Hole) (~2 km to the east from Kalotė, biggest in the seaside); Purmaliai; Antkalnis (Gribžiniai); Gerduvėnai;
Žvaginiai; Dovilai; Žardė; Laistai; Norgėlai; Veiviržėnai (Vilkės);
Vyskupiškiai; Mockaičiai (Šiuraičiai); Skomantai.
Architectural objects and monuments
Villages:
• Drevernos ethnographic village
• Agluonėnai ethnographic countryside house – museum Buildings:
• Veiviržėnai cemetery chapel (built in 1791, in the 1st half of C19 moved to the cemetery, a monument of art), cemetery gate
(built in 19C)
• Veiviržėnai Church (built in 1767, reconstructed in 1819, and presumed in 1882, a monument of art)
• Judrėnai Church (built in 1780, reconstructed in 1876, a monument of art)
• Vanagai Evangelical Lutheran Church (built in 1908, Gothic)
• Vėžaičiai manor (Vėžaičiai, built in 18C)
• St Casimir Confessor’s Church (built in 18C, author K. Volmeris)
• Evangelic Lutheran Church (Kretingalė, built in 1853, Gothic)
Urban objects and monuments
• In ethno cultural sense, Klaipėda District is as if a combination of two layers. Its one part historically consists of Samogithian
culture of the Great Lithuania, while the other – culture of Lithuanians of Lithuania Minor. These different features can be
observed when travelling in Klaipėda district.
• Karklė village founded in the end of 15C - beginning of 16C, on the coast of the Baltic Sea is one of the oldest and biggest historical
settlements in the seaside. Karklė village has sustained its ethnographic peculiarity through centuries.
• Today Priekulė is very valuable in architectural urban respect. The town centre formed in the 19C is characteristic to a bigger
town in Lithuania Minor.
Art objects and monuments
• Monument to Independence (Veiviržėnai, built in 1932)
• Monument of Columns of Gediminas – Altar (constructed in 1990, sculptor J. Mickevičius)
• Ablinga Memorial Ensemble of Sculptures (built in 1972)
• Monument to I. Simonaitytė (Priekulė, built in 1997, sculptor D. Matulaitė)
Historical objects and monuments
Buildings:
• House, in which writer I. Simonaitytė lived in 1960-1978 (Vingio g. 11, Priekulė). Writer I. Simonaitytė’s (1897-1978) place
of birth (Vanagai village, Agluonėnai Neighbourhood, Klaipėda District)
Famous people’s homes:
• Site of the countryside home of the state and public man, signatory of the Lithuanian Independence Act J. Šaulys (born in
1879) in Balsėnai
• Site of countryside house of the signatory of Lithuanian Independence
Restoration Act K. Antanavičius (born in 1937) in Balsėnai
• Site of the countryside house of pilot S. Darius (born in 1896) in Darius (former Rubiškės).
• Writer I. Simonaitytė’s countryside house – museum (Vanagai village)
• Place of birth of the poet and playwright Butkų Juzė (Pažvelsis village)
Natural objects and monuments
• 24 meter above the sea level Dutch Cap
• Seaside regional park |