The Curonian Spit, which development took over 5000 years, is a 98 kilometres long strip of land spread between the Baltic Sea and the Curonian Lagoon. There meet the eternal rivals - sand, the sea and forest. From century to century this chequered struggle was wearing the local people greatly; however, it is only due to the successful combination of those three contrastive elements that, in the long run, there emerged a spit, conspicuous in its nature of unique beauty. The area is referred to as the Curonian Spit (neria curoniensis) in historical records. The origin of the name of the Curonian Spit is associated with the Curonians, a western tribe of Balts. In the 13th century they ruled the seacoast of present day Latvia and surroundings of present Klaip?da City. It was as early as the Stone Age (4000 BC) that man found this land suitable to settle down in. Approximately at the same time the Sambian Peninsula freed the layer of amber from the deep of the sea and since then this spectacular mineral has become an essential element of the mode of life of the inhabitants of the Curonian Spit, especially for the purpose of decoration.

NIDA - the biggest settlement in Neringa City, and is also the administrative centre of the city. Although the number of permanent inhabitants of Nida is about 1700, the settlement receives about 50,000 holidaymakers every summer. Nida was first mentioned in 1385, in the documents of the Order of the Crusaders under the names of "Noyken" and "Noyden". The three former villages - Nida, Skruzdyn? and Purvyn? - comprise the settlement of Nida. In former times, fishermen mostly inhabited the area. The reference to Nida as a resort town dates back to the end of the 19th century. Today it is an ideal place for recreation.

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