On this leg of our journey, we\u2019ll pass by a 5.3-hectare development featuring apartments, townhouses, and detached houses. It will take us about seven minutes to get to our next stop, so for now, we\u2019ll discuss what was here before the construction of the new apartment blocks and why collective gardens play an important role in the transformation of this neighbourhood.<\/p>\n
The area is bordered by the Klaip\u0117da University Botanical Garden, Kretingos Street, and the Dang\u0117 River. During the Soviet era, it was the site of the Klaip\u0117da Planting Trust, the administrative building of the greenhouses, and a flower shop. To this day, the locals fondly remember how they’d come here to buy flowers. Perhaps we have some people with us today who have bought flowers here for 1st<\/sup>\u00a0September, 8th<\/sup>\u00a0March, or simply to surprise their loved one, just because. After all, it’s nice when a district is known for its flowers and not its troubles, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n A horse farm was established next to the Planting Trust, in the picturesque valley of the Dang\u0117 River, and operated until the end of 2017. The construction of the new \u017dolynai neighbourhood began in 2004, with the development of Senvag\u0117s and \u017dolyn\u0173 Streets running through the neighbourhood. In 2016, a new modern school was planned in the northern part of Klaip\u0117da, on Senvag\u0117s Street, due to the growth in population.<\/p>\n Further on, between the Dang\u0117 River and Kretingos Street, on the site of the former collective gardens, new gardening communities have been established. Collective gardens weren\u2019t only a phenomenon in the Soviet Union, but also in Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Germany. They were created for pragmatic reasons: after World War II, cities faced food shortages, so the governments decided to distribute plots of land to residents, allowing them to grow their own food. Of course, the would-be gardeners used the space in different ways \u2013 some would come here to relax, while others tended to their gardens through hard labour. This six-acre plot gave people the opportunity to express their creativity, ingenuity, love for agriculture, and passion for nature. The gardens became an extension of their home villages for the new city dwellers, an oasis of peace, and often a necessity for the survival of whole families. As times have changed, gardens on the outskirts of towns and cities have become a desirable, even prestigious, place to settle. Modern houses with neatly landscaped surroundings and luxury fences have replaced small summer houses, greenhouses have given way to beautiful pergolas, storage sheds have been replaced by garages, and gardens have been transformed into manicured lawns resembling golf courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20320,"menu_order":30,"template":"","format":"standard","place-category":[625],"restoranu-kategorija":[],"class_list":["post-30428","place","type-place","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","place-category-klaipeda-water-bus-tour-along-the-dane-river"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place\/30428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/place"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place\/30428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"place-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place-category?post=30428"},{"taxonomy":"restoranu-kategorija","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/restoranu-kategorija?post=30428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}