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City in Samogitia, Lithuania
Photo: Plungė library, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Plungė is a town in the Samogitia region of Lithuania, with a population of 17,000 in 2022. The main reason to come this way is for Samogitia National Park.
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Žemaičių dailės muziejus
This is in a mansion built in the 1880s for the nobleman Michał Mikołaj Ogiński (1849-1902), who amassed a huge art collection. It became a museum in 1994. The interior is all repro as Soviet troops destroyed or looted the original features.
Šaltojo karo muziejus
Missile silos that in Soviet times housed four SS-4 medium-range ballistic missiles, packing 2 megaton apiece.
Clean modern place east edge of the royal park.
By road from Kaunas take A1 northwest towards Klaipėda and turn onto Hwy 164. From Klaipėda start out on A1 east and at Vėžaičiai turn onto Hwy 166.
Read in the guideThe town is walkable; local buses circulate through town. You need wheels to explore Žemaitijos National Park and the Cold War Museum to the north.
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