Nida is a settlement on the Curonian Spit, on the southern
outskirts of the city of Neringa, near the national road 167
Smiltyne – Nida. Administrative center of Neringa municipality.
It is a resort village, which receives about 200-300 thousand
people every summer. (about 700 thousand visit Neringa per year)
tourists - a lot from Lithuania and Western Europe, especially
Germany. From Nida to Klaipėda (Smiltynė's new ferry) there is a
Neringa bicycle path. In Nida there are rest and hostels, hotels,
camping. There is a port, a boat dock and a yacht club by the
lagoon. There is an airport three km northeast of the village of
Nida.
A dozen side streets (mostly cul-de-sac type) converge
on the central street. Remaining old, 19th-20th century. junctions
of cottages and villas. History Museum (founded in 1966). Here you
can get acquainted with the life and culture of the local people,
traditional businesses - fishing, crow catching, etc. Fisherman's
Ethnographic Homestead (built in 1974), Tomas Manas Memorial Museum
(since 1995) V. K. Mizgiriai Amber Gallery-Museum (since 1995),
which exhibits works of contemporary artists made of amber, and
copies of archeological finds. Nida St. The Church of the Assumption
of the Blessed Virgin Mary (serves the whole of Neringa), the
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Nida (built in 1888), next to the
church - an ethnographic cemetery, where you can see
tombstones-baptisms made of wood. There is also a monument to G. D.
Kuvert, built in 1856 for the gardener of the Nida area. It stands
at the end of G. D. Kuverto Street. Later, dune caretakers and
foresters were buried in this place, in the old cemetery of the Nida
dune planters.
There is a secondary school in Nida, since
2005. There is a branch of Kaunas Service Business Employees
Vocational Training Center, Neringa Municipality Public Library,
Neringa Post Office (LT-93012), forest district.