Klaipeda. Summer route

Dreverna is the old fishermen’s village that was first mentioned in 1253. The village is located on the coast of the Curonian Lagoon near the mouth of Dreverna River. The rare monuments of Lithuania Minor, i.e. christenings (krikštai) still can be found in the cemetery of Dreverna. The surroundings of Dreverna village for nearly 300 years were known as the location of famous fishmarket Strykis. Many hundreds of fishermen and merchants used to come to this market. Fishermen from Dreverna, Svencele and even from Nida, Karvaiciai with live fish used to arrive on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Merchants from Samogitia and Königsberg used to arrive too. Since volume of trade was very high, it had provoked protests of the merchants of Klaipeda in 1721.

Thanks to skillful shipbuilder of Curonian Lagoon Jonas Gizas the fishermen of Dreverna became even more famous. He was a builder of smaller hoop-net boats, kurenkahns and vytine, i.e. the biggest Lithuanian merchant ships. The ethnographic fisherman's farmstead of J. Gizas was reconstructed in 2010 and was turned into a museum.

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