Juodkrantė
Juodkrantė | |
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Aerial view of Juodkrantė Evangelical Lutheran Church Traditional houses and bicycle path Coast of the Curonian Lagoon Resort house A view of the Baltic Sea near Juodkrantė | |
| Coordinates: 55°33′N 21°07′E / 55.550°N 21.117°E | |
| Country | Lithuania |
| County | Klaipėda County |
| Municipality | Neringa Municipality |
| First mentioned | 1429 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
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Juodkrantė (literally: Black Shore, Kursenieki: Šatnūrta or Šatnūrte, German: Schwarzort) is a Lithuanian seaside resort town located on the Curonian Spit with a permanent population of about 720 people. A part of Neringa municipality, Juodkrantė is the second largest settlement on Lithuania's part of the spit. For centuries it was a fishing village, which underwent a tourist boom in the late 19th–early 20th century.