GDAŃSK (DANZIG)
Gdańsk is one of the oldest and one of the most beautiful cities of Poland. It is worth to start sightseeing from the Main City. The most important monuments are situated along the so called "Royal Route", representative street of Gdańsk - Długa (Long Street). You may find there: the Hall of the Main City in gothic-renaissance style, the remarkable fourteenth-century meeting house of knights and patricians Arthur's Court, eighteenth-century apartment Uphagen's House, and also St. Mary's Basilica - the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary - the largest medieval brick church in the world (length of 105 meters and width of 66 meters at the transept and its tower is 77 meters high).
While walking in the Old Town worth to notice are: the Grand Mill, the Hall of the Old City and St. Catherine's Church. An absolute of excursions in Gdańsk is a walk through the Long Market up to the Neptune's Fountain and later on by the wharf of Motława to see the Crane Gate and the Central Maritime Museum located there.
During stay in Gdańsk also worth seeing is one of its symbols - the Monument of the Fallen Shipyard Workers - a memorial in form of three crosses with anchors, commemorating the victims of December 1970 events.
On the eastern-north part of the city, on the Port Island the Westerplatte and the famous Guar Post No. 1 are situated - a linchpin of Polish defence in September 1939, the place where the Second World War started. On the South of Westerplatte, you may found Wisłoujście (with a must see Wisłoujście Fortress ) and also the North Port.
The other place of interest is the Oliwa Cathedral - the longest (107 meter length) Cistercian church in the world. It gathers the masterpieces of religious art of the Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo and classicist, and moreover, one of the biggest in Poland - famous organs.
In the Oliwa district you may also find the Municipal Zoological Garden of the Sea Coast. It occupies 136 hectares of Tricity Landscape Park, what makes it the biggest facility of that kind across the whole country, considering the surface.
