Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Gdansk, Poland

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 8 sights
Distance 3.6 km
Ascend 75 m
Descend 24 m

Explore Gdansk in Poland with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Activities in GdanskIndividual Sights in Gdansk

Sight 1: Pomnik Ofiar Pożaru w Hali Widowiskowej Stoczni Gdańskiej

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The fire in the Gdansk Shipyard hall took place on 24 November 1994 during a concert by the band Golden Life in the Gdansk Shipyard Hall in Gdańsk. As a result of the injuries 7 people died.

Wikipedia: Fire in the Gdansk Shipyard hall (EN), Website

822 meters / 10 minutes

Sight 2: Solidarity Museum (European Solidarity Centre)

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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.

Wikipedia: European Solidarity Centre (EN), Website

162 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 3: Pomnik Poległych Stoczniowców 1970

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Pomnik Poległych Stoczniowców 1970Avi1111 dr. avishai teicher / CC BY-SA 3.0

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

183 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 4: Historyczna brama nr 2 Stoczni Gdańskiej

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Historyczna brama nr 2 Stoczni Gdańskiej Krzysztof Korczyński / CC BY-SA 3.0 pl

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.

Wikipedia: Gate No 2 of the Gdańsk Shipyard (EN)

440 meters / 5 minutes

Sight 5: Kościół pw. Świętego Jakuba

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St. Jakub in Gdańsk - Rector's Church in Gdańsk, belonging to the parish of St. Brygidy of the Archdiocese of Gdańsk.

Wikipedia: Kościół św. Jakuba w Gdańsku (PL)

138 meters / 2 minutes

Sight 6: Cerkiew Świętego Bartłomieja i Opieki Najświętszej Bogurodzicy

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The Co-Cathedral of St. Bartholomew and the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos in Gdańsk is a Greek Catholic church. It is located in the Old Town district of Gdansk, at St. Bartholomew's Alley.

Wikipedia: Konkatedra św. Bartłomieja i Opieki Najświętszej Bogurodzicy w Gdańsku (PL)

883 meters / 11 minutes

Sight 7: Kościół Bożego Ciała

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Kościół Bożego Ciała

The Church of Corpus Christi in Gdańsk is a Polish Catholic parish church located in the centre of Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland. It belongs to the Pomeranian-Greater Poland deanery of the Diocese of Warsaw.

Wikipedia: Kościół Bożego Ciała w Gdańsku (polskokatolicki) (PL)

1015 meters / 12 minutes

Sight 8: Wronia Górka

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Wronia Górka – a forest moraine hill with a height of about 55 m above sea level in Gdańsk within the boundaries of the Aniołki housing estate. On pre-war maps, the hill is not marked with a name.

Wikipedia: Wronia Górka (PL)

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