Tri-City Highlights (5 days)

Itinerary

Day 1

Arrival. Greeting at the airport by our guide. Bus transfer to the hotel/hostel. Dinner.
Day 2
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Breakfast. 4 h Old Town sightseeing with entrance to St. Mary’s Basilica. 1 h cruise on board of Lew Galleon or Black Pearl Galleon. Free time in the Old Town or optional trip in the afternoon. Dinner.

Gdańsk sightseeing 4 h

Gdańsk is located in the north of Poland, at The Baltic Sea coast, at The Motlawa and The Vistula river estuary and the Bay of Gdańsk. It is popular with tourists, both from Poland and abroad. During the four hours tour you will be able to see the most important monuments of Gdańsk – the Old Town, Neptune Fountain, Long Market, Main Town Hall, Golden Gate, Highland Gate and the Motława River banks with “the Crane”. You must also visit St. Mary’s Basilica - one of the largest brick churches in the world, called the Cr...

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St. Mary’s Church

St. Mary's Basilica (Polish: Bazylika Mariacka w Gdańsku) is one of the most recognisable buildings in Gdańsk. With its sheer size it is towering over the old town. Its full name reads Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Basilica was built between 1346 and 1506 in Gothic form. In its history, it was both catholic and protestant church. Today the visitors may marvel on the Middle-age décor of the interior.

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Lion Galeon cruise

Lion Galleon is a ship which is stylized on Polish galleons from the 17th century. During cruises on board of the ship, according to cruise trail choice, tourists can admire Gdańk Shipyard, a repair shipyard, docks, a harbor, Wisłoujście Stronghold, Westerplatte or Gdańsk Bay. During the trip tourists also listen to a guide talking about Gdańsk history and its monuments. The cruises are available from April till October. Standard cruise takes about 1 h. Groups can also order longer charter cruises with catering and ...

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Day 3
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Breakfast. Bus transfer to Sopot. 3 h sightseeing of the town with entrance to Sopot Pier. Free time for relaxation and shopping in Sopot in the afternoon. Return bus transfer to Gdańsk. Dinner.

Sopot

It is one of the best well known Polish seaside resorts and also famous place for its festivals which are organized in the Forest Opera (Opera Leśna). Every year in summer season big number of Polish and international tourists visit the town to enjoy Tri-city attractions and 4.5 km of white sandy beach. The main street of Sopot and the most well known promenade is Heroes of Monte Cassino Street (Bohaterów Monte Cassino) often called Monciak by natives. It is closed for cars and totally tourist-friendly. Here visitors...

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Sopot Pier

Sopot Pier (Polish: Sopot Molo) is the longest building of this type at Baltic Sea as its length is about 0.5 km. The first pier in Sopot was constructed in 1827 so, the building has long tradition in Sopot. Recreational areas not only include the pier itself but also 20 000 m2 square. In winter the square offers skating rink. At the square there are also other attractions such as a fountain, a light house with a view point, a band shell and souvenir shops and bars. In 2011 at side of the pier the new marina was open...

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Crooked House, Sopot

Krzywy Domek (English: crooked house) is situated by the main Sopot promenade 53 Bohaterów Monte Cassino Street and is a part of shopping centre Rezydent. We can find here offices of various companies, beautician’s, medical surgeries, shops, restaurants, clubs and pubs. Still, the biggest magnet of crooked house is its strange dreamlike architecture. Tourists also usually visit a wall of fame with autographs of famous people who has been in the building. The idea of the crooked house appeared in 2001 to architect cou...

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Day 4
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Breakfast. Bus transfer to Gdynia. Kościuszki Square sightseeing with Gdynia Aquarium about 3 h visit. Transfer to the airport. Departure.

Museum Ship The Gift of Pomerania

In Gdynia city centre there are museum ships moored to Pomeranian Sea Shore (Nadbrzeże Pomorskie). The first object of this type is long sailing ship Dar Pomorza (The Gift of Pomerania) which was built in 1909 and was a gift to Marine School in Gdynia. It made 102 training cruises and made distance of half a million sea miles (the distance that allows to sail around the globe 25 times), 13 384 students were trained aboard this ship. An average crew of it consisted of 189 people. Since 1983 it has been a museum. Curre...

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Gdynia Aquarium

Gdynia Aquarium (Polish: Akwarium Gdyńskie) is located at the South Pier in the very heart of Gdynia. A Modernistic building of the Aquarium offers an amazing view over the Kościuszki Square, Gdynia’s beach and Gdańsk Bay. The Aquarium is also a museum operated by National Marine Fisheries Research Institute as well as a zoo. It was opened as a museum in 1971. Visitors may see extraordinary species of fish, reptiles and amphibians from all over the world. The Aquarium exhibits four main habitats: coral reef, oceanic ...

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Optional Excursions

Museum of the Second World War

World War II began with Germany’s attack on Poland at the Polish military base at Westerplatte on September 1, 1939 and it’s therefore, appropriate that the remarkable WWII museum (Polish: Muzeum II Wojny Światowej), opened in March 2017, should have been built in Gdańsk. A conflict that claimed the lives of an estimated 55 million people is a both a huge and complicated story to tell. The museum grounds cover almost 2.5 acres, while the build...

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European Solidarity Centre

The exhibition and the newly built museum of European Solidarity Center (Polish: Europejskie Centrum Solidarności) are really impressive. The museum chambers are filled in with historic exhibits, modern multimedia equipment and artistic installations all about Polish aspirations to be a free country at the end of the 20th century. It is not a quiet place as while walking from exhibit to exhibit we can hear real historic recordings. The museum ...

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Westerplatte

Westerplatte is a peninsula in the delta of Wisła Martwa and Gulf of Gdańsk. It is a symbol of the Second World War as the war started here. The peninsula has width from 200 to 500 meters and it was a strategic point in Polish defence lines of Baltic coast region, this was the reason why it was attacked by Nazi-German battleship Schleswig-Holstein. The heroic defense of the peninsula lasted from the 1st till the 7th of September 1939. Currentl...

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Hevelianum Centre

Hevelianum Centre (Polish: Centrum Hevelianum) is a modern science centre based in historic military buildings. The main feature that differs this museum from other similar institutions in the country is the fact that it is located in the 19th century military forts with spectacular viewing point to the Old Town in Gdańsk. Interactive and multimedia exhibitions allow visitors to understand better various phenomena from physics, astronomy, hist...

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SS Sołdek

At present it is a ship-museum. It is the first ship built entirely in Poland after World War II. Up until December 1980, when it finished its duty, it went on 1478 cruises and reached 60 different ports. Currently, it is docked opposite Żuraw port crane and is one of the divisions of National Maritime Museum. Tourists may reach SS Sołdek by ferry that takes passengers between Żuraw and Ołowianka island.

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Crane

The Crane (Polish: Żuraw) is located in the very centre of Gdańsk on the river Motława. This wooden port crane is part of National Maritime Museum in Gdańsk. The crane is first mentioned in documents as old as 1367. This one, however, was built between 1442 and 1444 and was used to load goods, beer mainly, on ships cruising Vistula river. Tourists may visit three exhibitions, one on each floor, as well as admire the lifting mechanism.

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Amber Museum

Amber Museum (Polish: Muzeum Bursztynu) is one of the newest museum in the Tricity. It was opened in 2000 and covers a few-centuries-long tradition of extracting and processing of amber in the area of Żuławy Wiślane. The museum is located in a unique Medieval Mill. Amber museum exhibits the way amber is made, its properties as well the methods of extraction and processing and how they changed along the years.

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Artus Court

Artus Court (Polish: Dwór Artusa) is one of the most recognisable buildings on Długi Targ street, where the first tenement houses date back to Middle Ages. It is situated by 44 Długi Targ Street and in front of this building we will also find one of the best well known Gdańsk’s landmarks Neptune Fountain. Originally the building was erected in 1348-1350 and its golden age was in the 16th and 17th century. During its history it was a place of g...

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Uphagen’s House

Uphagen's House (Polish: Dom Uphagena) is located at the very heart of Gdańsk, at Długa 12 street. It is one of few 18th century tenement house open to the public. The building is named after one of the owners, Johann Uphagen, who purchased the building in 1775. Today visitors can see living and utility rooms. On the first floor from the street there is a living room, the most representative interior of the house. The large dining room is loca...

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Old Town Hall

Gdansk Old Town Hall (Polish: Ratusz Głównego Miasta) is a Gothic-Renaissance historic landmark built in 14th century in Dlugi Targ – the very centre of Gdansk. Over the years the town hall was largely extended to accommodate a growing number of clerks and reflected rapidly growing local economy and wealth. The building saw two major reconstructions – after a 16th century fire and due to heavy warfare during WWII when the building suffered ma...

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National Maritime Museum

The National Maritime Museum (Polish: Narodowe Muzeum Morskie w Gdańsku) is located in Gdańsk at 9 - 13 Ołowianka Street. The aim of the museum is to collect and protect monuments related to shipping, boatbuilding, shipbuilding and fishing, and to disseminate knowledge about them, as well as about the maritime history of Poland and its economy. The museum has a number of divisions in Gdańsk. They are Granaries on Ołowianka island, S.S. Sołdek...

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Maritime Culture Centre exhibition "Boats of Peoples of the World"

A permanent exhibition “Boats of Peoples of the World” is located on the second floor of the Maritime Culture Center. Visitors can see 41 boats from around the world. There are boats from Norway, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Tanzania, Panama, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ghana, Vietnam and Samoa. Most of them have been donated by seamen. Sailing the seas and oceans from the mid-1960s till late 1980s, they collected these valuable artefacts and brought the...

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Maritime Culture Centre "People-Ships-Ports"

The interactive exhibition “People – Ship –Ports” is located in the Maritime Cultural Center. The exposition consists of five parts. The first one, “The Sea – environment and technology" shows how a whirlpool and tsunami are born, how solar cells work, as well as see the northern sky constellations. On the second exhibition, “Ship structure”, the visitors can feel like a real captain. By visiting the part "Working in a port" guests learn the...

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EXPERYMENT Science Centre

Experiment Science Center (Polish: Centrum Nauki Experyment) is still fairly new as it was opened in 2013 and it is located at 96/98 Zwycięztwa Avenue. It is an unusual place as all the exhibitions there are fully interactive. They present science topics in a funny, interesting and enjoyable way. The center area is 3 500 m2 and you will find here about 120 interactive exhibits. The main exhibitions include: a water world, a tree of life, human...

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Gdynia Emigration Museum

The Museum of Emigration in Gdynia (Polish: Muzeum Emigracji w Gdynii) was just opened on 16.05.2015. It is located in the historic maritime station at 1 Polska Street. Since 1933 the building was used to serve the emigrant movement and it was the place from where hundreds of thousands people started their journey into the wide world. The museum exhibition tells the story of emigration from Polish lands since 19th century until current times. ...

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Gdynia Automotive Museum

Gdynia Automotive Museum (Polish: Gdyńskie Muzeum Motoryzacji) was created by a single collector Witold Ciążkowski. The museum not only presents vintage cars and motorcycles, but also it lends them. The museum is located in Gdynia Chylonia at 2c Żwirowa street. The exhibition includes about 150 motorcycles and 50 cars of such makes as Mercedes, Ford or for example Fiat. Most of the exhibits was produced before the end of the Second World War. ...

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Tri-City Highlights (5 days)

Tri-City Highlights (5 days)

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