Villa „Baltoji“

Villa Baltoji was built in 1900-1914 and is one of the few stone villas in the resort. After the death of Count Joseph Tiškevičius (1891), the building was inherited by his daughter, Countess Marija Tiškevikevičiūtė.

From 1938 the villa belonged to Vladas Stashinskas (1874-1944), a lawyer and public and state figure of the Republic of Lithuania. In the 1940s, the first President of Lithuania, Antanas Smetona, stayed with his family for four weeks every year during the high season. The President was accompanied by the permanent staff of the President’s Office. During the summer, the villa became the summer residence of the President of Lithuania.

In inter-war Lithuania, this villa, located at the intersection of Birutės Avenue and J. Basanavičiaus Street, was a unique place in the Palanga resort. The most important representatives of the political and cultural elite used to come here in the summer. During the Soviet era, the facades of the villa were severely damaged and the interior layout was changed. In 2006 the building was declared a cultural monument of regional importance.

Birutės al. 33, Palanga