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   St. Mary's Basilica in Gdańsk

   One of the largest brick churches in the world, begun in 1379 and finished in 1502, known to the city as the Crown of Gdansk. It can hold some 25,000 people; Catholics and Lutherans used it side by side from 1536 to 1572, and a stair of over 400 steps climbs the tower.

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   Museum of World War II in Gdańsk

   A museum of the Second World War opened in 2017, largely underground, built around the argument that the war has to be told from the civilian experience up. The government replaced its director and altered the exhibition within months of opening, which became an international dispute.

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   Gdańsk Main Town Hall

   The main city hall, built between 1379 and 1492, whose Red Chamber has a painted ceiling of twenty-five panels and Flemish tapestries. It was burnt out in 1945 and reconstructed; the tower carries a carillon and a gilded figure of the Polish king.

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   Oliwa Cathedral

   The longest church in Poland at a hundred and seven metres, finished in brick Gothic in the late fourteenth century. Its organ of 1788 has moving figures that ring bells and blow trumpets when it plays, which the abbey used to demonstrate to visitors and still does.

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   European Solidarity Centre

   A museum opened in 2014 beside the shipyard gate, its walls clad in weathering steel like ship's plating. The plywood board on which the strikers' twenty-one demands were written in August 1980 is displayed in it and is a UNESCO Memory of the World document.

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   Żuraw in Gdańsk

   A fifteenth-century harbour crane housed in a timber gate over the water — the largest lifting device in medieval Europe, worked by men walking inside two treadwheels, capable of raising four tonnes. It burned in 1945 and was rebuilt from measured drawings.

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   Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970

   Three steel crosses forty-two metres high with anchors hung from them, put up in December 1980 outside the shipyard gate to the workers shot in the strikes of 1970 — the first monument to victims of communism erected in a communist state, and a condition of the Gdańsk agreement.

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   National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk

   A maritime museum along both banks of the Motława, whose ships include the Sołdek, the first vessel built in Poland after the war and now moored as a museum. The granaries opposite hold the cargo and shipbuilding collections.

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   Neptune's Fountain

   A bronze Neptune of 1615 in front of the Artus Court, made when Gdańsk was the richest port on the Baltic and wanted to say so. Legend holds that the god struck the water with his trident in disgust at the coins thrown in, which is why Goldwasser liqueur has gold flakes.

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    Golden Gate

    A Renaissance gate of 1614 at the head of the main street, carrying eight allegorical figures on its parapet and an inscription about the concord that makes small states great. It stands on the royal route that Polish kings used to enter the city.

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   Artus Court

   The merchants' hall of the medieval city, where the guilds and brotherhoods met, named after King Arthur as such halls were all round the Baltic. Its tiled stove of 1546 is over ten metres high and made of five hundred and twenty painted tiles.

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   Westerplatte Monument

   A monument of 1966, twenty-five metres of granite on the peninsula where the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein opened fire on a Polish garrison at a quarter to five on 1 September 1939 — the first shots of the Second World War in Europe. The ruined barracks are left as they were.

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   Biskupia Górka

   A hill and district in the central borough of Gdańsk in Poland. As high ground immediately beside the old city it has long been of military importance.

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   Grand Hotel

   A historic five-star hotel on the beach at Sopot, facing the Bay of Gdańsk. It opened in 1927 and its terrace stands at the head of the wooden pier.

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   Long Market

   The wide street running from the town hall to the Green Gate, lined with the tall narrow houses of Gdańsk merchants — each rebuilt after 1945 from photographs and drawings, on the original plots. It was the city's showpiece and is again.

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   National Museum in Gdańsk

   The national museum's Gdańsk branch, whose great picture is Memling's Last Judgment of about 1470 — taken by privateers in 1473, carried off by Napoleon, returned, taken to the Soviet Union in 1945 and returned again in 1956.

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   Green Gate

   A gate of 1568 built not as a defence but as a royal residence for visiting monarchs, in Flemish Renaissance brick — though almost no king ever stayed in it. Lech Wałęsa kept his office in it after his presidency.

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   Wisłoujście Fortress

   A fortress at the mouth of the Vistula built around a fifteenth-century brick lighthouse tower, which is still inside the later Renaissance earthworks. It controlled all shipping into the richest port on the Baltic and is a Polish national monument.

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   Sołdek

   A Polish steam collier built to carry coal and ore. She was the first ship built at Gdańsk after the Second World War and the first seagoing vessel completed in Poland, the first of twenty-nine of the B30 type built by the Gdańsk yard between 1949 and 1954.

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    St Catherine's Church

    The oldest church in Gdańsk, begun in the 1220s, and the parish church of the old town. Johannes Hevelius, the astronomer who mapped the moon from a rooftop observatory here, is buried in it, and its tower carries a carillon of fifty bells.

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