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Kołobrzeg
Kołobrzeg Harbor (roughly "ko-WOB-zheg") is the lively heart of this Baltic spa town: at the mouth of the Parsęta River, fishing boats, excursion ships and yachts share the quays, while a lighthouse on an 18th-century fort watches over the…
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Mrzeżyno
Mrzeżyno harbour was founded — as its own port authority puts it — "for the sake of peace and quiet". In 1457 the townspeople of Trzebiatów, tired of disputes with Gryfice over navigation on the Rega and of an armed clash with Kołobrzeg, w…
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Frombork
Frombork harbour is at once a fishing, yacht and passenger harbour, and the cathedral helps with navigation: a red light in a tower window on Cathedral Hill serves as the rear leading mark. From the quay you therefore see the same towers t…
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Frombork
The walk along the pier in Frombork leads about 300 metres out into the Vistula Lagoon, and since 2020 it begins on a new promenade with a renovated town beach. The pier was built in 1973, and after dark rows of lamps light up along its ra…
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Ustronie Morskie
The Ustronie Morskie promenade and beach (say oo-STRO-nyeh MOR-skyeh) are the heart of a laid-back Baltic resort about 10–12 km (6–7 miles) east of Kołobrzeg, on Poland's northwest coast. A wide sandy beach lined with wooden groynes, a sea…
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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…
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Dziwnów
Dziwnów Promenade (pronounced roughly "JEEV-noof") is a seaside walkway of about 2.5 km in the small Baltic resort of Dziwnów in northwestern Poland. Its newest stretch, the Western Promenade, runs along the very top of a white sand dune,…
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Międzyzdroje
The seafront promenade is Międzyzdroje's drawing room: it runs along the beach, links the pier, the Avenue of Stars and the Spa Park, and since 1996 its main section has been called Promenada Gwiazd (Promenade of Stars). Resort villas bega…
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Świnoujście
The Świnoujście promenade (say "shvee-no-OOYSH-cheh") is the seafront walkway of this Polish spa town on the island of Usedom, running parallel to the beach from the harbor breakwater to the German border. Its big selling point: it continu…
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Dębki
At the western end of the beach in Dębki the Piaśnica river cuts through the sand and flows into the Baltic. A wooden footbridge and cycle bridge crosses the river mouth, and all around there is nothing but dunes, forest and a wide beach.…
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Gdańsk
Sobieszewo Island was created in a single night and given its final shape by workers with shovels and barges of stone. Gdańsk's largest and easternmost district is a strip of coastal forest and dunes between two mouths of the Vistula, with…