Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #4 in Gdansk, Poland

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.

Wikipedia: National Maritime Museum, Gdańsk (EN), Website

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.

Wikipedia: Brama Żuraw w Gdańsku (PL)

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.

Wikipedia: Brama Mariacka (PL)

Chlebnicka Gate - one of the historic water gates in Gdańsk, over Motława. It is located at Długa Zabrze, at the outlet of Chlebnicka Street in the main city.

Wikipedia: Brama Chlebnicka w Gdańsku (PL)

The Steffens House – a historic tenement house located on the Royal Route in Gdańsk in the Main Town. It is sometimes called Speymann's house or the Golden Tenement House.

Wikipedia: Dom Steffensów w Gdańsku (PL), Heritage Website

The Old House of the Jury – a historic tenement house in Gdańsk. It is located at Długi Targ.

Wikipedia: Stary Dom Ławy w Gdańsku (PL)

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.

Wikipedia: Artus Court (EN), Heritage Website

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.

Wikipedia: Gdańsk Town Hall (EN), Heritage Website

The Lion's Castle is a tenement house in Gdańsk, at 35 Długa Street.

Wikipedia: Lwi Zamek w Gdańsku (PL)

The Frog Gate – a medieval city gate existing in a rudimentary ruin, located in the Main Town of Gdańsk, along the defensive wall of the city. Initially, it was only a wicket in the wall.

Wikipedia: Brama Żabia (PL)

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

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.

Wikipedia: Kościół Świętej Trójcy w Gdańsku (PL)

The National Museum in Gdańsk, established in 1972 in Gdańsk, is one of the main branches of Poland's national museum system.

Wikipedia: National Museum, Gdańsk (EN), Website

The Corner Tower – one of the towers of the medieval fortification system of Gdańsk, the oldest of the preserved ones. The neighboring tower is the Schultz Tower.

Wikipedia: Baszta Narożna (PL)

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.

Wikipedia: Pomnik Ofiarom Stanu Wojennego (PL)

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.

Wikipedia: Brama Wyżynna w Gdańsku (PL)

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.

Wikipedia: Katownia w Gdańsku (PL)

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.

Wikipedia: Wieża Więzienna w Gdańsku (PL)

The Straw Tower – a historic, octagonal fortified tower in the Main Town of Gdańsk.

Wikipedia: Baszta Słomiana (PL)

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.

Wikipedia: Golden Gate (Gdańsk) (EN)

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.

Wikipedia: Uphagen's House (EN), Website

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

The Royal Chapel is a Baroque Catholic chapel in the Main Town of Gdańsk.

Wikipedia: Kaplica Królewska w Gdańsku (PL), Heritage Website