11 Sights in Sopot, Poland (with Map and Images)

The Sopot Pier is the pier in the city of Sopot, Poland on the Gdańsk Bay, built as a pleasure pier and as a mooring point for cruise boats. It first opened in 1827, and at 511.5 metres (1,678 ft), the pier is the longest wooden pier in Europe. It stretches into the sea from the middle of Sopot beach which is a popular venue for recreation and health walks or public entertainment events, and it also serves as a mooring point for cruise boats and water taxis. It is also an excellent point for observing the World Sailing Championship, the Baltic Windsurfing Cup and the Sopot Triathlon taking place on the bay. Sopot pier consists of 2 parts: the famous wooden walking jetty and the Spa Square on land, where concerts and festivities are organised.

Wikipedia: Sopot Pier (EN), Website

St. George's Garrison Church in Sopot – a neo-Gothic building from 1901, originally a Protestant temple, and since 1945 a Catholic one. It is located at Kościuszki Street in Sopot, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the Sopot deanery in the Archdiocese of Gdańsk and the Navy deanery of the Military Ordinariate of the Polish Army.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Jerzego w Sopocie (PL), Website

The Church of the Saviour in Sopot – the church of the Evangelical-Augsburg parish in Gdańsk with its seat in Sopot and the bishop of the Pomeranian-Greater Poland diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in the Republic of Poland – but it does not bear the title of cathedral, which is not provided for by the official pragmatics of the KEA.

Wikipedia: Kościół Zbawiciela w Sopocie (PL)

The Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Star of the Sea in Sopot – a Roman Catholic parish church, located at Kościuszki Street in Sopot, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the deanery of Sopot in the archdiocese of Gdańsk.

Wikipedia: Kościół Najświętszej Maryi Panny Wniebowziętej – Gwiazda Morza w Sopocie (PL)

Claaszen's Villa – one of the three most characteristic residences located in Sopot on the seashore, at 8 Poniatowskiego Street, corner of Wojska Polskiego Avenue, also called "Prominentów Avenue" by the inhabitants in the post-war period, belonging to the sugar and machinery merchant, insurance broker, American consul and art collector Ernst August Claaszen (1853-1924). After 1945, it was also called "bierutówka".

Wikipedia: Willa Claaszena w Sopocie (PL), Website

The Church of St. Andrew Bobola and the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sopot is a Roman Catholic parish church located in Sopot, Pomeranian Voivodeship. It belongs to the deanery of Sopot in the archdiocese of Gdańsk. It is located in the Dolny Sopot district.

Wikipedia: Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny i św. Andrzeja Boboli w Sopocie (PL)

The Home Army Monument in Sopot is a monument in the Inka Nurse Park in Sopot, dedicated to the fallen and murdered soldiers of the Home Army. Sculpture of Tadeusz Markiewicz on a pedestal made by Leon Czerwiński.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Armii Krajowej w Sopocie (PL)

Hillfort in Sopot – an early medieval hillfort, dating back to the eighth century, within the city of Sopot, surrounded by an embankment and a moat, overgrown with beech forest. It functions as an archaeological open-air museum which is a branch of the Archaeological Museum in Gdańsk.

Wikipedia: Grodzisko w Sopocie (PL)

The municipal cemetery in Sopot is a municipal necropolis located in Sopot at Jacka Malczewski Street. It was established in 1878 and was originally an Evangelical cemetery. In its vicinity there is a Catholic cemetery and a Jewish cemetery.

Wikipedia: Cmentarz komunalny w Sopocie (PL)

Wielka Gwiazda – a crossroads of forest walking routes in Sopot, in the forest complex of the Oliwa Forests in the area of the Tri-City Landscape Park. Wielka Gwiazda is surrounded by a multi-species forest with a predominance of beeches and pines; is located on the Kartuzy tourist trail. It is also the northern limit of Douglas fir occurrence.

Wikipedia: Wielka Gwiazda (PL)

The Sierakowski Mansion (Dworek Sierakowskich), one of the oldest buildings in Sopot, Poland, is the seat of the Society of the Friends of Sopot (Towarzystwo Przyjaciół Sopotu). There is an art gallery which holds exhibitions all over the year, the Mansion provides a venue for meetings organized under a "Theatre at the Table" world dramaturgy series ("Teatr przy stole") and musical evenings on Thursdays ("Czwartkowe Wieczory Muzyczne") - meetings that feature chamber music, organized without a break since 1974.

Wikipedia: Dworek Sierakowskich (EN)