Žemaitija ethnographic region.

Section 84. Plateliai – Salantai.

SEE Worth seeing

Gintališkė Church of St. Matthew, the Apostle and Evangelist

A wooden church that resembles a traditional residential house in shape.

Šateikiai ground missile base

At this location there was the Soviet Union's ground missile launch site. Operated until about 1978. 8 medium-range R-12 ballistic missiles were stored in the hangars. Missiles from 4 launchers were aimed at various targets in Western Europe. Not suitable for visiting.

Orvidas homestead – museum (Orvidų sodyba)

In the open-air museum you can find many works of its founder Vilius Orvidas and other artists, made of stone and wood. Tel.: +370 61328624

Salantai

A town with a unique, ancient and honourable history, located on both sides of the Salantas river. It was once called Skilandžiai and was an important crossroads of trade routes, as a result of which it quickly became a town.

Mindaugas Ivanauskas zoo

Here you can admire exotic animals and birds. Tel.: +370 65072453

Salantai Regional Park

It was created in order to preserve the landscape, natural ecosystem and cultural heritage values in the valleys of the Erla, Minija and Salantas rivers and their surroundings. In the park you can see a place with boulders and junipers, reminiscent of the tundra landscape.

H Salantai Regional Park Visitors Centre

Provides information about places to visit, tourism services. There is an exposition on the topic of glacier, introducing the uniqueness of this region. Tel.: +370 44558761

St. Virgin Mary's Assumption church in Salantai

The neo-Gothic church, built in 1911, that greets travellers from afar as they approach Salantai from anywhere. The church houses a valuable painting of the Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus on her hands.

Gargždelė St. Barbara's Chapel

Renaissance-style cemetery chapel with a front façade faces the town of Salantai.