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 Kreting a is a city in Lithuania. It is the capital of the Kretinga district municipality. It is located 12 km (7.5 mi) east of the popular Baltic Sea resort town of Palanga, and about 25 km (16 mi) north of Lithuania's 3rd largest city and principal seaport, Klaipėda. The population was listed as 21,423 in the 2001 census. It is the 6th largest city in the ethnographic region of Samogitia and the 18th largest city in Lithuania. Kretinga is one of the oldest cities in Lithuania. The first time it mentioned in 1253 as a castle Cretyn in the charter of bishop Heinrich of Courland. Since Lithuania's independence in 1990, the town has made a recovery - it has much to offer by way of history and art. Kretinga hosts folk music festivals, theatricals, the Kretinga Festival, celebrations on Midsummer Night's Eve (Joninės) and Mardi Gras (Užgavėnės), and a Manorial Feast. The manor is now a museum housing artistic and archeological collections and a restaurant in the adjacent greenhouse, called "The Winter Garden". A Cambrian geothermal reservoir underlies the area, and the Vydmantai powerplant exploiting this resource is being built nearby. |
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