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Hel
Hel Lighthouse is a slim, octagonal red-brick tower standing in the pine forest at the very end of the Hel Peninsula (say it like "hell"), a 35 km sand spit on Poland's Baltic coast north of Gdańsk. At 41.5 m, it still guides ships into Gd…
Zoos
Hel
The Hel Seal Sanctuary (Fokarium, roughly "foh-KAH-ryoom") is a small seal center at the tip of the Hel Peninsula on Poland's Baltic coast, run by the University of Gdańsk Marine Station. Here you can watch Baltic grey seals up close and l…
Museums
Hel
The Fisheries Museum in Hel is a branch of Poland's National Maritime Museum, set in the oldest building in town: a Gothic brick church from the 15th century right by the harbor on the Hel Peninsula, north of Gdańsk. Inside are traditional…
Fortifications
Hel
The Heliodor Laskowski Battery in Hel is a pre-war Polish coastal artillery battery hidden in the pine forest at the very tip of the Hel Peninsula, a few hundred meters from Hel Lighthouse. In September 1939 its four Swedish-made Bofors gu…
Coast
Hel
The Hel Headland is the sandy tip of the Hel Peninsula (say it like "hell"), the spot where a 35 km sand spit north of Gdańsk finally runs out and the open Baltic meets the Bay of Gdańsk. Since 2013 a stone cairn called the Kashubian Mound…
Museums
Hel
The Museum of Coastal Defence in Hel occupies the concrete bunkers of a former German coastal battery, "Schleswig-Holstein," hidden in the pine forest at the entrance to Hel, the town at the tip of Poland's Hel Peninsula, north of Gdańsk.…