Nida Lighthouse (Lithuanian: Nidos švyturys) is located in Nida, on the Curonian Spit in between the Curonian Lagoon (to the east) and the Baltic Sea (to the west).
Twenty-seven metres high and built of red brick, it had 200 steps, which have survived to this day.
It was planned to be 51.4 metres high, on raised ground, and built by prisoners.
In 1944, at the end of the Second World War, German soldiers blasted the lighthouse, destroying it.
The current lighthouse is built of reinforced concrete with horizontal red and white stripes.