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The 53-meter-high Parnidis Dune is adorned with a sundial calendar. It consists of a circular platform with small semi-circular steps marking the hours. In the center of the platform stands a 13.8-meter-high polished stone obelisk, whose shadow acts as the clock's hand. The obelisk is inscribed with calendar runes and holiday pictograms taken from a 17th-century wooden calendar. Four sculptural figures on the platform's sides represent the spring and autumn equinoxes and the summer and winter solstices. The Parnidis Dune is the only place in Lithuania where one can observe the sun rising from and setting into the water, from the Curonian Lagoon to the Baltic Sea.
The sundial calendar was erected in 1995, created by architect Ričardas Krištopavičius, sculptor Klaudijus Pūdymas, and ethnocosmologist Libertas Klimka. In 1999, the hurricane "Anatolijus" partially destroyed the sundial, but in November 2011, the broken stele was reconstructed.
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