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Key . Žemaičių Kalvarija VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Minor road Churches and white
Chapels of the Cross give
Hiking trail this town a spiritual Practical Information
Park boundary atmosphere. The Church Road Map C4. n Didžioji 8,
Festival, held in July each Plateliai, (448) 49 231;
year, is its main attraction. to book, 86778 6576. 
∑ zemaitijosnp.lt
Mill-Gallery: Open 9am–6pm
daily. Plokštinė Former Soviet
Missile Base: 8 book at the
Barstyčiai park’s information centre.
Transport
@ from Plungė to
Žemaičių Kalvarija.

Mound of Šarnelė
Pūčkoriai Žemaičių
Kalvarija Excavations on this
hill, in Šarnelė village,
have revealed that it
Gegrenai was a small fortified
town in the third
century BC.
Virkšai

Skurvydai
Platakiai
Lake
Plateliai

Plokštine

. Plokštinė Former Soviet Missile Base
Between 1962 and 1978, this secret Soviet rocket site,
with its recently patched up silos, aimed missiles at cities
in Western Europe.

Folk Legends of Lake Plateliai
Lake Plateliai had tremendous significance to the
pagans of the historical regions of Samogitia and
Žemaitija. Drownings occasionally occur here and
according to one of the many legends associated
with the lake, a great white horse lives in the water
and takes the life of at least one swimmer every year.
Plunge The water level has risen in recent times and
archaeologists diving in the lake have excavated
standing stones with pagan symbols under the
surface. To this day, Plateliai, on the lake’s western
Yacht moored along the shore of shore, celebrates many colourful traditional
Lake Plateliai Samogitian festivals.

For keys to symbols see back flap

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