Location: 1 km from Nida town centre

Nida nestles between two pine clad sand dunes. One of them, a vibrantly green, densely overgrown with high pines dune is referred to as Urbas Hill. The name Urbas derived from a rare Lithuanian word “urbti”, which refers to the action of screwing out holes for tree saplings. Urbas Hill signifies the historical beginning of the dune forestation process in the Curonian Spit. In the beginning of the 19th century, Gottlieb David Kuwert, the owner of Nida’s post station,  initiated a mammoth effort to reign in the sand and wind that buried Curonian villages year after year.

Urbas Hill is famous for one more highlight of Nida - the red and white striped Nida’s lighthouse. A brick tower that guided ships and boats of the Baltic Sea was first opened in 1874. Unfortunately, the lighthouse perished in a bomb attack during World War II. Reconstructed in 1953, the cylinder shaped lighthouse, built from reinforced concrete, rises to the height of 79 metres and offers a viewing balcony at the top - not for the faint hearted, mind!