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Museums
Gdańsk
The European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk (Europejskie Centrum Solidarności, ECS; sometimes spelled European Solidarity Center) is a museum and cultural centre dedicated to Solidarity – the trade union born in the Gdańsk Shipyard in 1980 th…
Churches & monasteries
Gdańsk
Locals call it the "Crown of Gdańsk". St Mary's Basilica, built in stages over more than 150 years (1346–1502), is the third-largest brick church in the world by volume, and its massive 82-metre tower rises above the rooftops of the Main T…
Hidden gemLandmarks
Gdańsk
Ołowianka Island (pronounced roughly "oh-woh-VYAN-kah") is a small island on the Motława River in the center of Gdańsk, directly across from the medieval Crane and the Long Embankment. In a compact area it packs the rebuilt granaries of th…
Hidden gemOld towns & squares
Gdańsk
Mariacka Street (St Mary's Street) in Gdańsk is the most atmospheric lane in the Main Town: cobbled, car-free and lined with stone terraces, gargoyle drainpipes and amber workshops. It runs about 185 m from St Mary's Basilica down to St Ma…
Churches & monasteries
Gdańsk
Oliwa Cathedral in Gdańsk (Archikatedra Oliwska, pronounced roughly "oh-LEE-vah") is a former Cistercian abbey church, the longest church in Poland and home to a famous Rococo organ whose carved angels and stars actually move as it plays.…
Churches & monasteries
Gdańsk
St Bridget's Basilica in Gdańsk is a Gothic church in the Old Town known as the "church of Solidarity". In the 1980s it was one of the key centers of anti-communist opposition in Poland, and today it also draws visitors with its monumental…
Museums
Gdańsk
Uphagen House in Gdańsk is a small museum of burgher interiors at 12 Long Street (ulica Długa), and the only place on the Royal Route where you can walk through a furnished 18th-century merchant's home. Instead of display cases you get a s…
Landmarks
Gdańsk
Artus Court in Gdańsk is one of the grandest civic interiors in Poland: a Gothic hall where the city's wealthy merchants once met, feasted and did business. It stands on Long Market (Długi Targ), right behind the Neptune Fountain, in the h…
Technical monuments
Gdańsk
A red-brick building with a 50-metre clock tower is the first thing most people see when they arrive in Gdańsk by train. Gdańsk Główny station, built in 1894–1900, is one of the city's best-known landmarks, and in front of its entrance sta…
Monuments & mounds
Gdańsk
The Hewelion lion figures in Gdańsk are a free city trail of small bronze lions hidden around the Baltic port city, from the historic Main Town to the beach, the zoo and even the airport. Each lion wears a different costume – sailor, pilot…
Landmarks
Gdańsk
The Neptune Fountain (Fontanna Neptuna) in Gdańsk is the city's best-known landmark: a bronze statue of the Roman sea god, trident raised, standing on Long Market (Długi Targ) in front of the Artus Court since the 1630s. It sums up the sto…
Zoos
Gdańsk
Gdańsk Zoo in Oliwa (Gdański Ogród Zoologiczny, roughly "guh-DAHN-skee OH-groot zoh-oh-loh-GEECH-nee") is the largest zoo in Poland by area, set in the forested Leśny Młyn valley inside the Tricity Landscape Park on the edge of Gdańsk. You…
Fortifications
Gdańsk
Gradowa Hill in Gdańsk (pronounced roughly "grah-DOH-vah") is a 46-meter (151 ft) hill right behind Gdańsk's main train station, and one of the best free viewpoints over the historic Main Town. Its slopes hide a 19th-century brick fortress…
Museums
Gdańsk
Hevelianum (pronounced "heh-veh-LYAH-noom") is a hands-on science center in Gdańsk, set inside 19th-century fort buildings on Gradowa Hill (Góra Gradowa), just a short walk from the main train station. With interactive exhibitions on energ…
Other
Gdańsk
St. Dominic's Fair in Gdańsk (Jarmark św. Dominika) is Poland's largest open-air trade and cultural festival: every summer, for more than three weeks, the streets of Gdańsk's historic Main Town fill with stalls, stages and food stands. Wit…
Churches & monasteries
Gdańsk
St Catherine's Church in Gdańsk is the oldest parish church of the city's Old Town: a Gothic brick building with a Baroque spire, standing opposite the Great Mill. The great 17th-century astronomer Johannes Hevelius is commemorated here, a…
Coast
Gdańsk
Brzeźno Pier is 136 m long and 7.2 m wide – modest next to Sopot's, but much quieter, and from the end you can watch ships heading into the port of Gdańsk. This wooden pier at the end of al. Jana Pawła II is one of the easiest ways to stan…
Museums
Gdańsk
The Amber Museum in Gdańsk is the city's showcase for Baltic amber – "Baltic gold" – from drops of resin formed millions of years ago to contemporary jewelry. A branch of the Museum of Gdańsk, it has occupied the Great Mill, a medieval mil…
Museums
Gdańsk
The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk is one of the largest and most ambitious history museums in Europe, telling the story of the war in the very city where it began. Its tilted red tower beside the Radunia Canal marks an exhibitio…
Museums
Gdańsk
The National Museum in Gdańsk – Department of Early Art is the city's most important art museum, housed in a late-Gothic Franciscan monastery on Toruńska Street, a few minutes' walk from the Main Town. It is famous as the home of Hans Meml…
Museums
Gdańsk
The National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk (Narodowe Muzeum Morskie, roughly "nah-ro-DOH-veh MOO-zeh-oom MOR-skyeh") is Poland's leading museum of seafaring, shipbuilding and life at sea. Its headquarters fill three rebuilt granaries on Ołowia…
Monuments & mounds
Gdańsk
The Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970 in Gdańsk – three soaring steel crosses with anchors on Solidarity Square, outside Gate No. 2 of the former shipyard – honors workers killed when the communist authorities crushed protest…
Landmarks
Gdańsk
The Main Town Hall in Gdańsk is the city's most recognizable landmark: a Gothic and Renaissance brick building whose slender tower, crowned by a gilded statue of King Sigismund Augustus, rises above Long Street and Long Market. Inside is t…
Historic sites
Gdańsk
The BHP Hall of the Gdańsk Shipyard (Sala BHP, pronounced "SAH-lah beh-hah-PEH") is a modest brick building inside the former shipyard where, on August 31, 1980, striking workers and the communist government signed the August Agreements –…