Amber
Description:
Amber is an extremely attractive place.
for tourism and recreation in all its manifestations. Here is the cleanest sea and the cleanest and widest beaches for all. n The Kaliningrad coast. The width of which reaches places up to 300 meters. Every year more and more people come here and More tourists from Russia and Europe. The width reaches 300 meters of local beaches.
He became world famous.
due to the presence in this area of about 90% of the world's amber reserves and location of the enterprise for industrial production of "solar stone" open industrially. About 50 million years ago on Earth occurred
climate warming and, as a result, abundant resin flow of trees in conifers Scandinavian forests. The resin was oxidized by air oxygen and accumulated in the soil. "amber forests." Rivers and streams gradually washed away hardened comas They came out of the ground and threw them away. a large river flowing into the ancient sea on the territory of the modern Kaliningrad Peninsula. Thus formed the world's largest deposit of amber. It doesn't have it. equal, not only in explored reserves, but also in the concentration of gems. Here. amber occurs in the so-called blue earth-sand clay rock of marine origin.
In 2016, Amber Beach was awarded
Blue Flag Awards.
A visit to a private manufactory, where you can see how amber is processed and how various amber jewelry is made before your eyes.
Of course, a visit to the career itself. So that you can see at what depth it lies and how the extraction of amber occurs.
Surviving building from houses of the early XX centuries in the seaside architectural style create a cozy feeling of harmony between man and nature.
One The dominant is an Orthodox church in honor of the Kazan Icon. Mother of God, open in the building A former church built in 1892. The temple is an exact copy of the chapel. St. George in the garden of the Berlin Castle and is exceptionally picturesque and unusual: its walls are made of large boulders.
Spaces. The Baltics are best opened with observation deck at the amber mine "Anna", A wonderful park named after M. Becker from 130 - Summer history will amaze with the beauty of the landscape and rare breeds of plants. That The number and one of the symbols of Amber - tulip tree.
In World War II memorial erected The fallen Soviet soldiers and the memorial to the victims of the Holocaust execution of concentration camp prisoners.