Gdansk Things to Do Tips by Landad

Bandy house In Sopot

It is a new building which stands on the most famous street in Sopot - Bohaterów Monte Cassino, and charms with its architecture. It looks like a house from fairy tale. Inside you will find some bars and stores.

I like to look on it very much.

Address: Sopot, Bohaterów Monte Cassino street

Directions: On the way to the beach in Sopot.

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St. Dominica Fair in Gdansk - every year

Biggest and oldest Gdansk performance. History of fair reaches st. Dominica XIII century. On the last Saturday of July for Gdansk pulled off the numerous German crowd, French, English, even Spanish and Portuguese tradesmen. It curled for harbor over 400 ships with French and Spanish wine, silk, jams, Portuguese spicy seasonings, tin and English material. The circus actor from all the world, acrobats, magicians and theatrical corpses where not missing either.

Today the fair is highlight for tourists and also for inhabitants, it connects the business fair with rich program of cultural performance and sports. Calendar of event includes wide fan of gala, concerts and competitions.

The city is possessed for 3 weeks by three indivisibly: Neptune, Hermes and Muses of Apollo. There are a lot of mercantile stalls and theatrical corpse in the streets. Can be heard old marine music and gypsy romance, old Gdansk music and charming old instruments. The smell of overseas sweets is implicated with local bread. Everyone will dig out nice reminder into an artist stall or on valuable old things trade. Swing of Gdansk fair is compared with so loud European performances as Munich Oktoberfest or Hamburg Weinachtsmarkt. Cheerful, culturally and tasty.
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Address: Gdansk Old Town - 27 July 2007 - 20 August 2007

Gdansk-Sopot-Gdynia-Hel ship trip

If you have one spare day in Gdansk, you could take a nice trip by ship on the Baltic Bay. You can buy return or one way ticket by boat from Gdansk to Hel ( or only to Gdynia, or to Westerplatte). In the summer time the trips are hold several times a day, the whole week round, in winter I don't know...:-( ( I will check :-) ). There are two kinds of ships, quicker and slower.

If you decide to start your trip in Sopot, then you will get to Hel in about 2 hours. It is a pleasent trip, during which you can observe how looks the Baltic Bay like. When you get to Hel you have about 2 hours on visiting the Fishermans city. They have sealhouse (feeding every day at 3 p.m.) , some nice, very traditional restaurants where you can eat mostly Fish ;-) and also after few minutes walk you can get on the open Baltic sea beach.

If you decide to take just one way ticket, you can also come back to the 3city by train !
When you take the return ticket, starting from Sopot, going to Hel and back, you can end in Gdansk (see picture), which is more to the south then Sopot.

Even I like to take the trip from time to time...:-)

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Address: Starting from Gdansk , Sopot or Gdynia

Directions: Gdansk - the Old Town (Dlugie Pobrzeze street)ships go to Sopot, Gdynia, Hel or Westerplatte, Sopot - seaside (Molo) - ships go to Gdansk, Gdynia, Hel and probably Westerplatte. Gdynia - skwer Kosciuszki (seaside)ships go to Gdansk, Gdynia, Hel.

Unique Old Town

Gdansk is the second most beautiful city in Poland, just after Krakow. This is why you should not miss the walk around the Old Town (over 1000 year old). The Old Town was very much destroyed during the II WW but later had been rebuilded.

What makes the place different comparing to other cities in Poland is a lack of big market square in the middle of Old Town. Gdansk Old Town these are several small streets with one big and very famous called Dluga street (trs. Long Street). In all of them are standing old but beautiful houses.
The Dluga street begins with Golden Gate and ends with Green Gate, in the middle you will find the City Hall, the Neptune Fountain, Artus Court, cinemas, cafes, restauarnts. The street is accessible only for pedestrians.

My favorite street is Mariacka Street – the name comes from St. Maria name. It begins at the channel (Dlugie Pobrzeze) and ends with St. Maria church (the biggest church in the Old Town). What I love about the place is the atmosphere, does not matter in winter or summer... you walk there and you feel like you are ages ago... all the old houses, beautiful stairs at the front of them, little shops with jewelers in the basement, small cafes and in the summer musicians sitting on the stairs and playing old music...
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Address: The Old Town of Gdansk

Directions: Most of the streets in the Old Town.