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Fortifications
Ustka
The Blücher Bunkers in Ustka are a surviving German coastal and anti-aircraft battery from the late 1930s, hidden among pine trees on a dune just west of the harbor in this Polish Baltic resort. Today the underground shelters house a moder…
Technical monuments
Ustka
Ustka Lighthouse is a red-brick tower from 1892 guarding the harbor entrance of Ustka (say "OOST-kah"), a seaside resort on Poland's central Baltic coast. Attached to a handsome red-brick pilot station with stepped gables, it is the town's…
Coast
Ustka
Ustka began with its harbour: it was the medieval town of Słupsk that founded a landing place at the mouth of the Słupia, giving itself a window on the Baltic. Today fishing boats, yachts and excursion ships moor along the harbour canal, a…
Coast
Ustka
The Ustka seaside promenade is the walk that defines this small Polish Baltic resort: a raised boardwalk-style path running along the dunes from the lighthouse and harbor mouth eastward above a wide sandy beach. Ustka (say "OOST-kah"), onc…
Monuments & mounds
Ustka
In the design she had a graceful tail and a slender figure, but once cast in bronze – as the sculptor himself complained – she was holding not a salmon but "a dead carp". Despite its stormy beginnings, the Ustka Mermaid (Syrenka Ustecka) s…