2011.11: Klaipėda, Lithuania Minor, Lithuania
Location: Klaipėda, Lithuania Minor, Lithuania
Date: 2011.11
Photographer: Jesen
Camera: Nikon
Retouch: Adobe Photoshop
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There’s a distinctly German flavour to Klaipėda (klai-pey-da). Lithuania’s third-largest city, formerly known as Memel, was part of the Prussian Kingdom until the region wrestled to autonomy in 1923. Buildings in the compact, cobblestoned Old Town are constructed in the German fachwerk style – that is, with distinctive half-timbered facades. Beyond the orderly historic centre, the modern city sprawls into an industrial forest of cranes and shipyards, sliced in two by the Danė River as it meanders into the Baltic Sea.
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