IN THE SPOTLIGHT

• Sculpture Garden

  
  Palanga » Sightseeing » Parks & Gardens

  Close to where Vytauto meets J. Simpsono, the often sadly overlooked little park packed with 28 contemporary statues representing several different styles from some of the top names in Lithuanian sculpture as well as a few pieces made by artists from Armenia, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine was first opened in 1982. Read on
  

• Amber Museum

  
  Palanga » Sightseeing » Museums

  Situated inside the fabulous 19th-century neo-Classical former mansion of Count Tiškevičius (Pol. Tyszkiewicz), this exemplary museum holds some 25,000 pieces of amber of which over half have animals and plants trapped inside. Read on
  

• Anaičiai Ethnographic Cemetery

  
  Palanga » Sightseeing » Places of interest

  Overlooked entirely, even by the local tourist information people, this extraordinary collection of 19th- and early 20th-century graves in the tiny hamlet of Anaičiai is truly remarkable and should be visited by anyone with even a passing interest in philology. Read on