51 Sights in Gdansk, Poland (with Map and Images)
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The Artus Court is a building in the centre of Gdańsk, Poland at Długi Targ 44, which used to be the meeting place of merchants and a centre of social life. Today it is a point of interest of numerous visitors and a branch of the Gdańsk History Museum.
St. Mary's Gate – a historic water gate of the Main Town in Gdańsk. It is located on the Motława River at the Long Embankment, at the end of Mariacka Street and next to the House of the Nature Society.
Neptune's Fountain is a historic fountain in Gdańsk, a mannerist-rococo masterpiece, and one of the most distinctive landmarks of the city. The fountain is located at the Długi Targ, in front of the entrance to the Artus Court. It was constructed in the early 17th century. Kashubians use a nickname Krësztof for the sculpture.
Wikipedia: Neptune's Fountain, Gdańsk (EN), Heritage Website
4. SS Sołdek
SS Sołdek is a retired Polish coal and ore freighter. She was the first ship built in Gdańsk (Poland) after World War II and the first seagoing ship completed in Poland. She was the first of 29 ships classed as Project B30, built between 1949 and 1954 in the Gdańsk Shipyard. The name was given in honour of Stanisław Sołdek, one of the shipyard's shock workers.
5. Golden gate
The Golden Gate is a historic Renaissance city gate in Gdańsk, Poland. It is located within the Royal Route, the most prominent part of the historic city center and is one of its most notable tourist attractions.
6. Pomnik Poległych Stoczniowców 1970
The Monument to the fallen Shipyard Workers 1970 was unveiled on 16 December 1980 near the entrance to what was then the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. It commemorates the 42 or more people killed during the Coastal cities events in December 1970. It was created in the aftermath of the Gdańsk Agreement and is the first monument to the victims of communist oppression to be erected in a communist country. It was designed by: Bogdan Pietruszka, Wiesław Szyślak, Wojciech Mokwiński and Jacek Krenz.
Wikipedia: Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970 (EN), Website
7. St Mary’s Church
St. Mary's Church, or formally the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is a Brick Gothic Catholic church located in central Gdańsk, Poland. With its volume between 185,000 m3 and 190,000 m3 it is currently one of the two or three largest brick churches in the world. Only San Petronio Basilica in Bologna, comprising 258,000 m3 is larger, Munich Frauenkirche and Ulm Minster also comprise 185,000 to 190,000 m3.
Wikipedia: St. Mary's Church, Gdańsk (EN), Website, Heritage Website
8. Brama Żuraw
The Crane Gate – a historic port crane and one of the water gates of Gdańsk, which is located on the Motława River, at the end of Szeroka Street. It is one of the branches of the National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk and the largest and oldest of the preserved port cranes of medieval Europe.
9. Park Oruński im. Emilii Hoene
Emilia Hoene Oruński Park – a historic, third largest city park in Gdańsk, the largest of the historical parks. It is located on the Oruński Stream, on the border of the districts: Orunia-St. Wojciech-Lipce and Orunia Górna-Gdańsk South.
10. Gdansk main train station
Gdańsk Główny is the chief railway station serving the city of Gdańsk, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. The station opened in 1900 and is located on the Warsaw–Gdańsk railway, Gdańsk–Stargard railway, the parallel Gdańsk Śródmieście–Rumia railway, Gdańsk Główny–Gdańsk Zaspa Towarowa railway and Gdańsk Główny–Gdańsk Nowy Port railway. The train services are operated by PKP, Polregio and SKM Tricity. Koleje Mazowieckie trains operate here during the summer.
Wikipedia: Gdańsk Główny railway station (EN), Heritage Website
11. Sanktuarium Matki Bożej Brzemiennej w Gdańsku Matemblewie
The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Pregnancy in Gdańsk Matemblewo – a Roman Catholic Marian sanctuary. It is located in the Matemblewo housing estate in the Gdańsk district of Brętowo, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the Gdańsk Oliwa deanery in the archdiocese of Gdańsk.
Wikipedia: Sanktuarium Matki Bożej Brzemiennej w Gdańsku Matemblewie (PL)
12. Cerkiew Świętego Mikołaja
The Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas is an Orthodox co-cathedral and parish church in Gdańsk. It belongs to the Gdańsk deanery of the Białystok-Gdańsk diocese of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church. It was also used by the Gdańsk military parish of St. George the Victor.
13. Brama Wyżynna
The Upland Gate, formerly also the "High Gate" – a Renaissance city gate in Gdańsk, currently on the main car route. Until 1895, it was located in the line of sixteenth-century fortifications, between the Bastion of St. Elizabeth and the Karowy Bastion, and was the main entrance gate to the city, opening the so-called Royal Route.
14. St. Peter and Paul Church
The Church of St. Peter and Paul is a church in Gdańsk, Poland, on Żabi Kruk Street. It is the historic parish church of the Old Suburb. It belongs to the group of the largest Gothic churches in Gdańsk. In the years 1590–1945, it was the main church of the Gdańsk Reformed Evangelicals. Divine services were held here in Polish, English, French and German. In 1958, by the decision of the authorities of the Polish People's Republic, it was handed over to Roman and Armenian Catholics.
Wikipedia: Kościół św. Piotra i Pawła w Gdańsku (PL), Website
15. Cerkiew Świętego Bartłomieja i Opieki Najświętszej Bogurodzicy
The Co-Cathedral of St. Bartholomew and the Protection of the Most Holy Mother of God in Gdańsk – a Greek Catholic church. It is located in the Old Town district of Gdańsk, at St. Bartholomew's Alley.
Wikipedia: Konkatedra św. Bartłomieja i Opieki Najświętszej Bogurodzicy w Gdańsku (PL)
16. Kościół pw. Świętej Trójcy
Church of the Holy Trinity in Gdańsk – a late Gothic temple erected for the Franciscans settled in 1419 in the Old Suburb (Lastadia), the southern part of historic Gdańsk. The church is part of the former monastery complex of the Friars Minor Conventual, which includes the chapel of St. Anne, a half-timbered house and monastery buildings with a patio adjacent to the church on the south side. After the Reformation in 1522, the Gdańsk Academic Gymnasium and a library were established here. After 1872, it was the seat of the City Museum, currently a branch of the National Museum. A valuable work of late Gothic brick architecture, with characteristic stepped gables of the façade of the nave and chancel and small turrets contrasting with the massive body of the church.
17. Kościół pw. Świętego Ignacego Loyoli
The Old Scots Collegiate Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola is a historic, post-Jesuit church in Gdańsk in the Orunia–St. Adalbert–Lipce housing estate, in the historical region of Stare Szkoty. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic parish of St. Ignatius and the seat of the Old Scottish chapter.
Wikipedia: Kolegiata św. Ignacego Loyoli w Gdańsku (PL), Website
18. Kościół pw. Świętego Józefa
St. Joseph's Church in Gdańsk – the rector's church belonging to the parish of St. Bridget in the Archdiocese of Gdańsk. Adjacent to the church is a chapel where adoration of the Blessed Sacrament takes place throughout the day, during which you can also use the sacrament of reconciliation. During the Reformation, it was one of the few Roman Catholic churches operating in Gdańsk. In the time of the Carmelites, the church was dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows and the Holy Founders Elijah and Elisha.
19. Abbot's Palace
The Abbots' Palace in Oliwa is a rococo palace in Oliwa, a quarter of Gdańsk. It houses the Department of Modern Art of the National Museum in Gdańsk, and along with the Cistercian-Cathedral complex in Oliwa it is listed as a Historic Monument of Poland.
20. Wzgórze Pachołek
Pachołek Hill – a hill in the Gdańsk district of Oliwa. Also called the Servant Mountain, and in German initially Pacholkenberg, and from 1797 to 1945. Carlsberg or Karlsberg. It is located in the Oliwa Forests complex on the edge of the Tri-City Landscape Park and on the Kartuzy tourist trail and the Skarszewski trail.
21. St Elizabeth Church
St. Elizabeth's Church in Gdańsk – a historic rector's church, located within the boundaries of the parish of St. Bridget in the Archdiocese of Gdańsk. In the years 1622-1820 it was the second temple of the Gdańsk Calvinists.
22. Meczet imienia Dżamala ad-Dina Al-afganiego
Jamarudin Al-Afghani Mosque in Gdańsk – is currently one of the four active mosques in Poland, with a minaret and the only one in Gdańsk. It operates within the Muslim Religious Community in Gdańsk, which is one of eight communities in the country. The mosque is located in the VII Dwór housing estate at 17a Abrahama Street.
23. Kościół pw. Świętego Jana Bosko
Church of St. John Bosco – a historic parish church in Gdańsk Orunia, of the Roman Catholic faith. Originally, it was an Evangelical temple and was named after St. George. Since 1945, the church has been managed by the Salesians.
24. Baszta Jacek
Jacek Tower – a historic tower in the line of medieval fortifications of the Main Town in Gdańsk, built around 1400. The highest of the medieval Gdańsk towers. It is located at Pańska Street, near Podwale Staromiejskie and the Wood Market. The neighboring tower is the Tower on the Wall.
25. Szaniec Jezuicki
The Jesuit Rampart, less often known as the "Jesuit Fort", is a historic trapezoidal fort in Gdańsk. It was founded by the Prussians on the edge of the plateau, in a place towering over Old Scots, at Kolonia Anielinki Street. Since 1968, the rampart has been entered into the register of monuments.
26. Baszta Pod Zrębem
The Tower under the Framework, also known as the Trump Tower, is a historic late-Gothic tower located in the Old Suburb in Gdańsk, near the Motława River, preserved in ruins. The neighboring tower is the White Tower.
27. Katownia
Torture Chamber – built in the second half of the fourteenth century, as a medieval fortification of the Main Town in Gdańsk. Together with the Prison Tower, it formed the foregate (barbican) of Długa Street.
28. Bastion św. Gertrudy
St. Gertrude's Bastion – a bastion of the neo-Italian type, built in the years 1607–1638 in Gdańsk, the only one preserved in its original shape and the last of the western line of fortifications. One of the fourteen similar bastions with which the city was fortified in the 17th century, located in the Old Suburb near the Lower Town.
29. Jan III Sobieski
The King John III Sobieski Monument in Gdańsk is an equestrian statue of the King of Poland John III Sobieski (1629-1696). Originally built in Lviv in 1898, the monument was transferred to Gdańsk in 1965.
30. Twierdza Wisłoujście
Wisłoujście Fortress is a historic fortress located in Gdańsk by the Martwa Wisła river, by an old estuary of the river Vistula, flowing into the Bay of Gdańsk. The fortress is located close to the Wisłoujście borough, Westerplatte and the Port Północny. It is listed as a Historic Monument of Poland.
31. Pomnik Obrońców Poczty Polskiej
The Monument to the Defenders of the Polish Post Office – a monument in honour of the participants of the defence of the Polish Post Office in Gdańsk on 1 September 1939, designed by Krystyna Hajdo-Kućma and Wincenty Kućma, unveiled on 1 September 1979 at the Defenders of the Polish Post Office Square in the centre of Gdańsk. It was funded by the Polish Post. The monument depicts a dying postman, to whom the goddess of victory Nike hands a rifle, and letters spill out of an open mailbag. The figures are composed into stylized sea waves topped with doves of peace.
32. Dom Uphagena
The Uphagen House is a reconstructed 18th-century merchant house in Gdańsk, Poland, located at the Ulica Długa within the Royal Route in the historic Main City. It houses a museum, which is a branch of the local historical museum.
33. St. Catherine’s Church
St Catherine's Church is the oldest church in Gdańsk, Poland. Though building began in the 1220s, it experienced many renovations and additions to reach its full size. The Gothic-style design includes chappels, a high gable roof, a square floor plan, vaults, and more.
34. Wieża Więzienna
Prison Tower – was built as part of the medieval fortifications of the Main Town in Gdańsk. Together with the Torture Chamber and the so-called Neck connecting them, it forms the foregate (barbican) complex of Długa Street.
35. The Romanesque Cellar
Refectory of the Dominican monastery in Gdańsk - a Romanesque refectory (dining room), which was once part of the Dominican monastery, discovered in 2005. It is the oldest preserved cubature interior in Gdańsk, with an area of 52 m². It is located in the main city, under the Dominican Square, between the church of St. Mikołaj and Hala Targowa. It was created in the middle or in the third quarter of the 13th century. Most of the room survived in good condition, despite the fact that the building was rebuilt several times. The facility was located on a very low ground floor, about 1 meter caught in the ground. The refectory has a unique design of the vault with four fields of elliptical vaults supported on pendentives and the central pillar. He was hidden entirely underground. Initially, it was planned to fill the facility again, but due to the opposition of conservation environments and lovers of monuments, as well as the intervention of the Ministry of Culture, the refectory went under the management of the Archaeological Museum, which at the cost of PLN 5 million made its renovation.
Wikipedia: Refektarz klasztoru dominikanów w Gdańsku (PL), Website
36. Latarnia morska Gdańsk Port Północny
Gdańsk Port Północny Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Gdańsk, located on the Polish coast of the Baltic Sea, by the Bay of Gdańsk. It is the youngest lighthouse in Poland; located between the lighthouse in Hel, and the lighthouse in Krynica Morska.
37. Kościół Bożego Ciała
The Church of Corpus Christi in Gdańsk is a Polish Catholic parish church located in the city centre of Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the Pomeranian-Greater Poland deanery of the Warsaw diocese.
Wikipedia: Kościół Bożego Ciała w Gdańsku (polskokatolicki) (PL)
38. Tym co za polskość Gdańska
The Monument to Those for the Polishness of Gdańsk – a monument commemorating those who died for the Polishness of Gdańsk in the period from the Gdańsk massacre in 1308 to the end of World War II, unveiled on December 28, 1969 on the square at Podwale Staromiejskie Street. The monument in the shape of concrete blocks decorated with reliefs, symbolizing an axe stuck in the ground, was built according to the vision of Wawrzyniec Samp and Wiesław Pietroń.
39. Pomnik Kindertransportów
The Kindertransports Monument is a contemporary monument in the city centre of Gdańsk, near the Gdańsk Główny railway station, commemorating the participants of the Kindertransports of Jewish children from Gdańsk to London on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. In the period September 2019 – June 2023, the monument was dismantled to prevent damage to it during the general renovation of the station.
40. Ratusz Głównego Miasta
Gdańsk Main Town Hall is a historic Ratusz located in the Gdańsk Main City borough of Śródmieście. It is one of the finest examples of the Gothic-Renaissance historic buildings in the city, built at the intersection of Ulica Długa and Długi Targ, in the most popular part of Gdańsk. The Main Town Hall in Gdańsk houses the History Museum of the City of Gdańsk.
41. Narodowe Muzeum Morskie
The National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk is a maritime museum in Gdańsk, Poland, established on 1 January 1962. It is dedicated to gathering, researching and preserving artifacts and documents concerning ship transport, international trade, fishing and culture of people working at sea, rivers and those ashore as well as the dissemination of knowledge on maritime history of Poland and its economy through the ages.
42. Morski Kościół Misyjny Niepokalanego Serca Maryi
The Maritime Missionary Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Gdańsk is a church belonging to the Province of St. Francis of Assisi of the Order of Friars Minor in Poznań. It is located in Gdańsk, in the Nowy Port district.
Wikipedia: Morski Kościół Misyjny Niepokalanego Serca Maryi w Gdańsku (PL)
43. Historyczna brama nr 2 Stoczni Gdańskiej
The Gate No 2 of the Gdańsk Shipyard is one of the gates leading into Gdańsk Shipyard. Because of the gate's proximity to the Shipyard's management buildings as well as its good access to Gdańsk Main City and Gdańsk Główny railway station, the Gate is commonly considered to be the main entrance to the Shipyard.
44. Gdański Ogród Zoologiczny
The Gdańsk Zoo is a zoological garden located in Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodship, Poland. It was opened in the district of Oliwa in 1954 and covers 123,76 hectares, which makes it the largest zoological garden in Poland in terms of area.
45. Monument at Westerplatte
The Westerplatte Monument, also known as the Monument to the Defenders of the Coast is a war memorial located in Gdańsk, Poland, on the Westerplatte Peninsula in the Gdańsk harbour channel constructed between 1964–1966 to commemorate the Polish defenders of the Military Transit Depot in the Battle of Westerplatte, one of the first battles in Germany's invasion of Poland, which marked the outbreak of World War II in Europe.
46. Pomnik Świętopełka Wielkiego
Monument to Świętopełk the Great in Gdańsk – a bronze monument depicting Świętopełk II the Great, Duke of Gdańsk in the years 1227–1266. It is located in Gdańsk, on the square between Szeroka Street, Grobla II, Świętojańska Street and Złotników Street.
47. Muzeum Archidiecezjalne w Gdańsku
The Archdiocesan Museum in Gdańsk – a museum in Gdańsk–Oliwa, existing since 1975. It is located inside the former Cistercian monastery, since 1957 used by the Gdańsk Theological Seminary. In the summer season, the most valuable historic part of the monastery is open to the public, dating from the late 13th, 14th and 15th centuries, once completely enclosed.
48. Solidarity Museum (European Solidarity Centre)
The European Solidarity Centre is a museum and library in Gdańsk, Poland, devoted to the history of Solidarity, the Polish trade union and civil resistance movement, and other opposition movements of Communist Eastern Europe. It opened on 31 August 2014.
49. Kościół pw. Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny
The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a Roman Catholic parish church belonging to the parish of the same name. It is located in the Gdańsk district of Śródmieście, in the Lower Town.
Wikipedia: Kościół Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Gdańsku (PL), Website
50. Molo w Brzeźnie
Brzeźno Pier - a pier located in Brzeźno, one of the resort boroughs of Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship; in Poland. The pier was built in the second half of the nineteenth century, with a length of 100 metres. The pier was later expanded after World War II and currently has a length of 136 metres and a width of 7.2 metres.
51. Pomnik Ofiarom Stanu Wojennego
The Monument to the Victims of Martial Law – a monument in Gdańsk at the Cancer Market in the form of a lying figure, in memory of Antoni Browarczyk, the first fatal victim of martial law in Poland. The author of the monument is the Gdańsk sculptor Gennadij Yershov, the initiator of the monument is the president of the Association of the Federation of Fighting Youth, photojournalist Robert Kwiatek.
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