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      Zelenogradsk: cats, pies and the sea

      ⏱ 5 h 30 min🚶 2.5 km + 🚆🍽 2📍 5 stops
      🐢 A little — under 3 km

      Half a day in the former resort of Cranz: a cat museum in a water tower, Lithuanian cepelinai, a promenade above the beach and Prussian pies to take away.

      🍽 Food tour🌳 Parks and nature🚆 Out of town
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      Getting there
      🏛 Kaliningrad North Station
      Советский пр., 2
      Buy a Lastochka ticket at the ticket office or in the app; the train takes 23–38 minutes.
      🚆 by suburban train to Murarium — the Cat Museum
      Lastochka from North Station to Zelenogradsk-Novy: 10:24, 11:21, 12:25…, 23–38 min
      1. 1
        🖼 Murarium — the Cat Museum
        Зеленоградск, ул. Саратовская, 2а
        🎟 ticket
        A cat museum in Zelenogradsk’s old water tower: cat figurines, paintings and toys from all over the world.
        5 minutes from the station. The cat museum opens at 12:00 and on weekdays is open until 18:00.
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        Murarium — the Cat Museum
        © Александр Сигачёв · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Murarium — the Cat Museum
        © Kemal KOZBAEV · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Murarium — the Cat Museum
        © Avsolov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The cat museum is housed in Zelenogradsk’s old water tower.
        • The Murarium’s success gave the town its “cat” image: since 2018 Zelenogradsk has had an official cat keeper.
        • The cat keeper feeds the cats in the town square, where heated little houses have been put up for them.
      2. 🚶 on foot
      3. 2
        🚶 Kurortny Prospekt, Zelenogradsk
        Зеленоградск, Курортный пр.
        The pedestrian street of the former resort of Cranz: cafés, early 20th-century guest houses and a way down to the sea.
        Along pedestrian Kurortny Prospekt to the sea, past old guest houses and cafés.
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        Kurortny Prospekt, Zelenogradsk
        © Avsolov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        Kurortny Prospekt, Zelenogradsk
        © Alexander Grebenkov · CC BY 3.0
        Kurortny Prospekt, Zelenogradsk
        © Avsolov · CC BY-SA 4.0
        • The resort in Cranz opened in 1816 — 35 guests came in the first season.
        • In 1844 Cranz was given the status of a royal resort.
        • The railway from Königsberg reached the town in 1885.
        • Zelenogradsk was recognised as a resort of federal importance on 29 March 1999.
      4. 🚶 on foot
      5. 3
        ☕️ Tsepeliny Lithuanian café
        Зеленоградск, Курортный пр., 19
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        A Lithuanian lunch: cepelinai (large potato dumplings), kibinai (meat pasties) and šakotis (“tree cake”).
        🍴 An inexpensive Lithuanian café on Kurortny Prospekt. What to order: cepelinai (large potato dumplings), kibinai (meat pasties), Lithuanian borshch, šakotis (spit-baked “tree cake”), mulled wine.
      6. 🚶 on foot
      7. 4
        🚶 Zelenogradsk Promenade
        Зеленоградск, Променад
        🆓 free entry
        A seafront promenade above a wide sandy beach with breakwaters — windy and almost deserted out of season.
        The promenade above the beach — windy in October, but this is exactly when it’s empty and beautiful.
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        Zelenogradsk Promenade
        © Alexander Grebenkov · CC BY 3.0
        Zelenogradsk Promenade
        © Avsolov · CC BY-SA 4.0
      8. 🚶 on foot
      9. 5
        ☕️ Syostry Shutts café
        Зеленоградск, Курортный пр., 23
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        Before the train — a Prussian pie with zander or marzipan, which you can take with you.
        🍴 A café of Prussian pies — handy to take with you to the spit. What to order: pie with marinated zander, flounder or sprats, marzipan pie.

      ↩️ Getting back: Lastochka trains from Zelenogradsk-Novy to North Station: 15:17, 15:51, 17:18, 18:56, 20:03, 21:03 — 25–37 min; check times in Yandex Schedules

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