Kartena: Hotels and Accommodation

Kartena is considered a town located near the coast. The wider region around Kartena contains evidence of the Curonian period, including heavily fortified wooden hill forts that were presumably built around the 8th to 10th centuries in Kartena and other nearby locations.

Culture and History

The Church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary is located in the wider region around Kartena. The area around Kartena also contains archaeological evidence of human settlement dating from the 3rd millennium BCE.

Archaeological investigations at the settlement below the hill fort of Kartena were connected with the planning and construction of new footpaths; these were intended to prevent damage to the cultural layer.

Landscape in the Surrounding Area

Šilo Kalnas is located in the area around Kartena. The wider region also includes Lapkalnis, Grambaviškių Kalnas and Birutės Kalnas.

More local pages: Darbėnai, Rūdaičiai, Šlaveitai, Dupulčiai, Laukžemė.

To the higher-level travel overview: Kretinga District Municipality.