Gdańsk’s Old Town, rebuilt after wartime destruction along its original Hanseatic street plan, is one of Poland’s most distinctive city centres — narrow merchant houses, the Long Market, and a working shipyard that made the city famous as the birthplace of the Solidarity movement in 1980. Guided tours typically combine the historic centre with maritime and shipyard history along the waterfront.
Gdańsk’s Old Town, rebuilt after wartime destruction along its original Hanseatic street plan, is one of Poland’s most distinctive city centres — narrow merchant houses, the Long Market, and a working shipyard that made the city famous as the birthplace of the Solidarity movement in 1980. Guided tours typically combine the historic centre with maritime and shipyard history along the waterfront.
Gdańsk anchors the Tri-City area alongside Sopot and Gdynia on the Baltic coast, and tours can extend to a beach day or a look at Poland’s amber trade, historically centred on the city.
