Palanga Pier

Palanga Pier (Lithuanian: Palangos tiltas) is a wooden pier to the Baltic Sea located in Palanga, the most popular and biggest summer resort in Lithuania.

[1][2][3][4][5] In 1589 Grand Duke Sigismund III Vasa granted the right to expand the Port of Palanga to the English people, who built a bridge to the sea, installed a stone jetty and prepared the seabed for the development of maritime transport.

[1] In 1882 Juozapas Tiškevičius II [lt] supervised the construction of a new Palanga Pier with a length of 380 metres.

[1][2] It was primarily dedicated for exporting bricks, however, during summer time it was used for walks.

[1][3] It had an attic (Italian: altana) in the beginning of the pier for protecting pedestrians from rain and was connected to a tram line.

Palanga Pier in 1906 and in 2010