Curonian Spit Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About Curonian Spit
About 4,000 years ago, the Baltic Sea's connection with the Atlantic was constricted, so it shrank and became brackish rather than saline, and its waves were less powerful. A line of sandbanks and spits developed along its south coast, enclosing lagoons. The largest of these is the Curonian Spit, 99 km of sandhills, some of them over 60 m high. It is still growing, as the lagoon to its east is silting up, but the forces are finely balanced and a small rise in sea level or more powerful storms through climate change could soon erode it. The region has long been German-speaking, conquered by the Teutonic Knights in the 13th century, becoming part of Prussia from 1700, and remaining predominantly German until 1945. The little fishing villages along the spit also had their own languages, of wh
Curonian Spit Travel Guide Sections
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