It is hard to imagine Palanga without the Baltic Sea. The Sea is our past, present and future. Since the New Stone Age (IV – II c B. C.), the sea has influenced mental and material culture, trading relations of the peoples living here.
A lot of Lithuanian legends are related to the sea. From generation to generation, by the cradle, mothers would narrate their children about the love of the sea goddess JÅ«ratÄ— for the fisherman Kastytis, about the enchanted prince of the sea Žilvinas and EglÄ—, a fisherman’s daughter, about the giants Naglis and Neringa or priestess BirutÄ—, the wife of Grand Duke KÄ™stutis.
