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Tourist Information Office

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About the city, What to see & do

From year to year, Poland is becoming a more attractive destination for foreign tourists. The development of low cost airlines has played a major role in this.
Tourists interested in history and monuments should visit the wonderful Old Town of Gdansk; it is one of the oldest cities and one of the most important in the building of Poland. Its captivating centre was almost completely destroyed during World War II, and its monuments were rebuilt piece by piece.

The Royal Way (Trakt Krolewski) is fascinating with the facades of tenement houses and the characteristic building of Brama Wyzynna (Upland Gate), Ratusz Glownomiejski (Main Town Hall), Dwor Artusa (Artus Court), and the famous Neptune Fountain.
The Town Hall - Its origins are from the XIII century. Its interiors are decorated in Holland style. The Great Council Room (Wielka Sala Rady), called Red Room (Sala Czerwona), its the most beautiful with 25 paintings of Izaak van den Blocke.

Gold Door

This magnificent arch with its two-level columns, built at the beginning of the XVII century, its open on the representative street of Dluga. Through this door the royal families entered in Gdansk. Two statues in stone are symbol of peace, liberty, richness, fame, agreement, justice, pity and the cautious.

Neptune Fountain
Dated from the XVII century, situated along the Dlugi Targ, it's the symbol of the opening from the city to the sea. According to a legend, it's Neptune whom contributed for the construction of the Goldwasser, the famous liqueur of Gdansk.

Gdansk is famous as the capital of amber goods. Amber has many names and comes in many different shades and forms. The variety of its products is enormous, almost infinite, and the differences in prices are also huge. The oldest traces of amber workshops in Gdansk date back to the end of the 10th century: beads, rings, pendants, dice and counters for board games, amulets, and after the city was christened by St. Wojciech, also crosses.

The quiet and tiny Mariacka Street, for ages the magnet attracting artists and artistic crafts, amber and other jewellers, captures your soul with its romantic air.

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