title: Palanga Pier
text: # 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.
  
  ## History
  
  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.
  
  In 1882 Juozapas Tiškevičius II [lt] supervised the construction of a new Palanga Pier with a length of 380 metres. It was primarily dedicated for exporting bricks, however, during summer time it was used for walks. It had an attic (Italian: altana) in the beginning of the pier for protecting pedestrians from rain and was connected to a tram line. Since 1892 it was dedicated for the use of pedestrians only and become a popular sea-side destination for walks.
  
  In 1998 the latest reconstruction of the Palanga Pier was completed, and the renewed pier's length become 470 metres.
  
  ## Gallery
  
  * Entrance to the pier from the central Jono Basanavičiaus Street
  * Pedestrians and bicycle drivers on the pier
  * Fishermen on the pier
  * Sunset near the pier
  * Pedestrians observing twilight on the pier
  * Under the pier
  