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Town in Lithuania
Photo: Petriukas at Lithuanian Wikipedia, GFDL via Wikimedia Commons
Šilutė is a town in Lithuania Minor, near the border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast. It's a quiet market town with a population of 16,000 in 2021. The main reason to visit is to see wildlife in the Nemunas river delta and Curonian lagoon.
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This was the manor house of Hugo Šojus or Scheu (1845-1937), a local landowner and great collector of Lithuanian culture. The manor was wrecked by the occupying Red Army in 1947 but restored in 2005 and the museum re-located here.
The lighthouse is a 13 m tall octagonal red brick tower, completed in 1876 and deactivated in 1986. In 1907 a pumping station was added to drain the fields.
Comfy clean hotel with restaurant.
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