Lithuania is the country of amber — Baltic gold, the fossilised tree resin that washes up on the shores of the Curonian Spit in quantities unmatched anywhere else on Earth, which has been traded along the Amber Road from the Baltic to the Mediterranean since the Roman Empire and remains the defining symbol of this […]
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