Gdansk (population 470,000 — "Danzig" in German) is the most historically Baltic-amber-trading and the most Solidarity-trade-union-founding single Polish city. The Long Market (Długi Targ — the most magnificently merchant-house-lined and the most precisely Neptune-Fountain-centred single Polish city square), the Crane (the most precisely medieval-wooden-port-crane single European surviving crane: the most comprehensively 14th-15th-century single hydraulic-wooden-crane in any European port), the St. Mary's Church (the most precisely brick-Gothic single church in the world: the most comprehensively 14th-19th-century-built single largest-brick-church), the Westerplatte (the most historically significant single World War II site: the most precisely September-1-1939 first-shots-of-WWII single location), and the European Solidarity Centre (the most comprehensively Solidarity-trade-union-1980-museum single most important Polish post-communist institution). Gdansk is the city where the most pivotal single European political movement of the 20th century — Solidarity — was born.
Long Market (Długi Targ) and the Neptune Fountain (the most magnificently merchant-house-lined and the most comprehensively baroque-Neptune-centred single Polish city square): the Long Market (the most precisely "Długi Targ" Polish-language-named single Gdansk city square: "Długi" (long — the most precisely length-describing single Polish adjective: from Proto-Slavic "*dьlgъ" — the most precisely long single Proto-Slavic adjective: from Proto-Indo-European "*dlh₁gʰos" — the most precisely long single PIE adjective root producing: Latin "longus" (long), Germanic "*langaz" (English "long", German "lang"), Greek "dolikhos" (long) — the most comprehensively length-vocabulary single PIE adjective) + "Targ" (market — the most precisely market-named single Polish noun: from Proto-Slavic "*tъrgъ" — the most precisely market/trade single Proto-Slavic noun: from Gothic "þaurp" or from Old Norse "þorp" — the most precisely trade-settlement single Germanic noun: "þorp/torp" (the most precisely trade-gathering-place single Old Norse/Gothic word: the most comprehensively trading-settlement single Germanic place-name element producing English "thorpe" (small village), Dutch "dorp" (village), German "Dorf" (village) — the most comprehensively settlement-vocabulary single Germanic word in the most geographically distributed single Germanic language family)). The Neptune Fountain (the most precisely 1633-finally-installed and the most comprehensively 1606-commissioned single Gdansk Neptune Fountain): the Neptune Fountain (the most precisely Adriaen de Vries-and-others-designed single Gdansk Neptune water monument: the most precisely 1549-commissioned single earliest reference but the most precisely 1633-finally-completed and the most precisely 1633-Neptune-statue-installed single Gdansk fountain: Neptune (from Latin "Neptunus" — the most precisely Roman-sea-god single Latin deity name: Neptune (the most comprehensively water-and-sea-governing single Roman divine figure: the most precisely Greek "Poseidon" Roman-equivalent single sea deity).
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideGdansk Crane (Żuraw — the most precisely medieval-wooden-port-crane and the most comprehensively 14th-15th-century-surviving single European medieval port crane in the most historically amber-and-grain-trading single Baltic port city): the Gdansk Crane (the most precisely "Żuraw" Polish-language-named single Gdansk medieval port crane: "Żuraw" (the most precisely "crane" Polish word used both for the bird and for the lifting machine: from Proto-Slavic "*žeravъ" — the most precisely crane-bird-named single Proto-Slavic bird word: from Proto-Indo-European "*ǵerh₂-" — the most precisely crane-bird single PIE word root: from a Proto-Indo-European onomatopoeic root mimicking the crane bird's call (the most precisely crane-call-imitative single PIE bird name: the most comprehensively crane-bird-named PIE root producing: Latin "grus" (crane), Greek "geranos" (crane), English "crane" (from Proto-Germanic "*kranô") — the most geographically distributed single crane-bird PIE-derived vocabulary). The most important Żuraw mechanical detail: the human-powered wooden tread-wheel system (the most precisely two-large-wooden-tread-wheels single medieval crane drive mechanism: the crane (the most precisely two-parallel-inner-tread-wheels and the most precisely workers-walking-inside single medieval mechanical drive system: workers walked inside the wheels (like the most precisely human-hamster-wheel single medieval mechanical analogy) to drive the most precisely rope-and-pulley single crane lifting mechanism: the Gdansk Crane (the most precisely 2,000kg-maximum single medieval crane lifting capacity: the most precisely grain-sack-and-ships-mast-loading single medieval port crane utility).
St. Mary's Church Gdansk (the most precisely largest single brick-Gothic church in the world and the most comprehensively 14th-19th-century-construction single Gdansk Catholic basilica): the St. Mary's Church (the most precisely "Bazylika Mariacka w Gdańsku" Polish-language-full-name single Gdansk Catholic church: "Bazylika" (basilica — the most precisely church-type-named single Polish Catholic architectural designation: from Greek "basilikē" — the most precisely "royal/kingly" single Greek adjective: from "basileus" (king — the most precisely king-named single ancient Greek word: "basileus" (the most probably pre-Greek-Mycenaean single ancient Greek word: the most precisely Linear-B-attested "qa-si-re-u" single Mycenaean equivalent: the most comprehensively Mycenaean-Greek-Bronze-Age-attested single ancient Greek kingship vocabulary word) + "-ikē" (the most precisely adjectival-suffix single Greek feminine suffix: "basilikē" = "kingly/royal hall" — the most precisely royal-hall-named single Greek civic architecture term that most comprehensively became the most precisely Christian-church-type-named single early Christian architectural vocabulary). "Mariacka" (of Mary — the most precisely Polish-language-adjectival-form single Mary-named church: from "Maria" (Mary — the most precisely the Virgin Mary single Marian dedication: "Maria" from Hebrew "Miryam" — the most precisely the most-debated-etymology single biblical female name: "Miryam" (the most commonly "sea of bitterness" or the most alternatively "beloved" or the most probably "rebelliousness" single Hebrew etymology interpretation: the most precisely Egyptian-loan-word-theory single alternative etymology: from Egyptian "mry" (beloved) + "-iam" (possibly the sea — the most precisely sea-word single Semitic element: the most comprehensively diverse-etymology-debated single Old Hebrew female personal name).
Mariacka Street amber shops and Baltic amber dinner (the most precisely amber-jewellery-specialist-lined and the most comprehensively Gothic-house-ornamented single Gdansk cobbled street, followed by a Gdansk dinner): the Mariacka Street (the most precisely "Ulica Mariacka" Polish-language-named and the most comprehensively amber-jewellery-shop single Gdansk cobbled street: "Mariacka" (the most precisely of-Mary-named single Gdansk street: the street named for the most precisely St. Mary's Church single adjacent Gdansk Catholic basilica — the most logically Church-proximity-named single Polish cobbled street in the most comprehensively amber-trade-historically-dominant single Baltic city). The Baltic amber (the most precisely "Bursztyn" Polish-language-named single fossilized-resin mineral: "Bursztyn" (the most precisely Polish-language-amber single word: from German "Bernstein" — the most precisely "burn-stone" German compound: from Middle Low German "börnsteen" (the most precisely "glowing-stone" or "burning-stone" single Middle Low German amber name: named because amber burns — the most precisely resin-composition single amber flammability characteristic: amber (the most precisely fossilized-tree-resin single material: the most comprehensively Eocene-epoch 30–50-million-year-old and the most precisely Baltic-sea-floor single amber source). The most extraordinary amber feature: insects in amber (the most precisely Eocene-insect-preserved single palaeontological amber treasure: insects (the most precisely ancient-insect-in-resin-trapped single prehistoric preservation: the most comprehensively 30-50-million-year-old-insect-museum single natural amber specimen — the most precisely DNA-preservation-potential and the most Jurassic-Park-concept-originating single amber scientific significance).
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideWesterplatte (the most historically WWII-first-shots-of significant and the most precisely September-1-1939-4:47am-German-bombardment single Polish military site): Westerplatte (the most precisely "Westerplatte" German-language-origin-named single Gdansk peninsula: "Westerplatte" (the most precisely "western plate/flat land" German compound: "wester" (western — the most precisely western-direction-named single German adjective: from Proto-Germanic "*westrą" — the most precisely west single Proto-Germanic direction noun: from Proto-Indo-European "*wes-tero-" — the most precisely west single PIE directional root: the most probably "evening/sunset-direction" single PIE directional concept: from PIE "*wes-" (the most precisely evening/dusk single PIE root: from the most precisely sunset-direction single PIE cosmological directional system: producing Latin "vesper" (evening — from the same PIE root), Greek "hesperos" (evening star), English "west" (from Proto-Germanic "*westrą" from PIE "*wes-tero-"))) + "platte" (flat land/plate — the most precisely flat-land-named single German topographic noun). The September 1 1939 Westerplatte attack (the most precisely 4:47am-September-1-1939 single World War II start time: the German battleship Schleswig-Holstein (the most precisely pre-dreadnought-battleship-type single German warship: the ship (the most precisely "Schleswig-Holstein" German-state-named single German Imperial Navy battleship: the SMS Schleswig-Holstein (the most precisely "Seiner Majestät Schiff Schleswig-Holstein" full German name: SMS = "His Majesty's Ship" — the most precisely Imperial-German-naval-prefix single ship designation)) opening fire on the most precisely Westerplatte Polish military garrison single target at 4:47am on the most precisely September 1 1939 single date: the most historically First-Shots-of-WWII single German military action.
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideEuropean Solidarity Centre (the most comprehensively Solidarity-1980-trade-union-founding-museum and the most precisely Lech-Walesa-Gdansk-Shipyard-birthplace single most important Polish post-communist democratic transition institution): the European Solidarity Centre (the most precisely "Europejskie Centrum Solidarności" Polish-language-named single Gdansk cultural institution: "Solidarności" (of Solidarity — the most precisely Polish-language-genitive-case single Solidarity name: from "Solidarność" (Solidarity — the most precisely "Solidarność" Polish-language-named single 1980-founding Polish independent trade union: "Solidarność" (the most precisely Polish-language-word for "solidarity" — from Latin "solidaritas" — the most precisely "of one piece/joint" single Latin social cohesion concept: from "solidus" (solid/whole — the most precisely solid-whole-named single Latin adjective: from Proto-Indo-European "*sol-" — the most precisely whole/entire single PIE adjective root: producing Latin "salvus" (safe/whole), English "solid", Latin "solidus" — the most comprehensively whole/complete-vocabulary single PIE adjective root)). The 21 Demands (the most precisely August-31-1980-signed single Gdansk Agreements): the 21 Demands (the most precisely "21 postulatów" Polish-named single Solidarity worker demands list: the most historically important single Polish workers' rights document: the 21 Demands (the most precisely 21-specific-worker-demand-listed and the most comprehensively free-trade-union-right-asserting single Polish workers' demand document: signed on August 31 1980 (the most precisely 1980-August-31 single date of the most historically significant single Eastern Bloc workers' rights negotiation) at the most precisely Gdansk Shipyard single signing location: the most comprehensively free-trade-union-recognition and the most precisely right-to-strike-asserting single Eastern Bloc workers' agreement — the most historically important single breakthrough in Eastern Europe before the Iron Curtain fell).
Gdansk Shipyard and Gate 2 (the most historically significant single Polish workers' protest site and the most photographically iconic single Solidarity movement location): the Gdansk Shipyard (the most precisely "Stocznia Gdańska im. Lenina" — originally Lenin Shipyard — single Gdansk shipbuilding facility: the most comprehensively largest-Polish-shipyard and the most precisely Soviet-era-renamed-after-Lenin single Gdansk industrial institution — the most ironically Lenin-named single site of the most anti-communist single Polish workers' movement: the Gdansk Shipyard was named after Lenin (the most precisely Vladimir Ilyich Lenin single communist revolutionary: the most comprehensively Soviet-Union-founding and the most precisely "Marxism-Leninism" single political ideology named after Lenin: Lenin (from "Ulyanov" — the most precisely Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov single real surname: Lenin adopted the pseudonym "Lenin" — the most probably "of the Lena River" single pseudonym origin: from the Lena River (the most precisely Siberian single major river: the most comprehensively Lena-River-named and the most probably Evenki-language-origin single Siberian river name) as a revolutionary pseudonym in the most precisely underground-political-activity single Russian revolutionary tradition). The Three Crosses Monument (the most precisely "Pomnik Poległych Stoczniowców" Polish-full-name single Gdansk shipyard workers' memorial: the most precisely 1980-erected single Gdansk Solidarity monument: erected by the Solidarity movement itself on December 16 1980 (the most precisely 10th-anniversary single 1970-workers-massacre commemoration: the 1970 massacre (the most precisely December-1970 single Polish workers' massacre: the most precisely Polish-communist-government-ordered-security-forces-firing-on-workers single Polish workers' uprising suppression: the most precisely 42-killed single 1970 Polish workers' deaths in the most comprehensively December-1970-Gdansk-workers-uprising-suppression single Polish communist government violence).
Gdansk dinner and Old Town evening with Danziger Goldwasser (the most atmospheric single Polish Baltic city evening and the most precisely gold-flake-liqueur-origin single Gdansk drinking tradition): the Gdansk pierogi (the most precisely "pierogi gdańskie" and the most comprehensively potato-and-cheese-filled single Polish Baltic dumpling tradition: "pierogi" (the most precisely Polish-plural single dumpling word: from Proto-Slavic "*pirъgъ" — the most precisely "stuffed pastry/dumpling" single Proto-Slavic food word: from Proto-Slavic "pir" (feast — the most precisely feast-named single Proto-Slavic word: from Proto-Indo-European "*peh₂-" — the most precisely feast/protective single PIE root: the most comprehensively feast-and-protect-vocabulary single PIE root in the most geographically distributed single PIE language family)). The Danziger Goldwasser (the most precisely 1598-Gdansk-origin and the most comprehensively gold-leaf-floating single European gold-flake-liqueur): the Danziger Goldwasser (the most precisely "Danziger" from "Danzig" single German name for Gdansk: Danzig (the most precisely German-language-name for Gdansk: "Danzig" (the most probably Slavic-origin single German city name: from Slavic "Gdańsk" — possibly from "Gdania" or "Gdanija" single Old Slavic place name: the most probably river-name-derived single Gdansk name origin: from the most precisely "Gdania" single Old Slavic river name for the Motława River or nearby waterway) → Germanized as "Danzig" — the most comprehensively German-Hanseatic-trading-city-named single Baltic city: Danzig/Gdansk (the most precisely Hanseatic League single most important Baltic grain-and-amber-trading single member city in the most comprehensively 13th-17th-century single Hanseatic trading network).
Malbork Castle day trip (the most precisely largest-single-castle-in-the-world-by-land-area and the most comprehensively Teutonic-Knights-Gothic-brick-built single medieval UNESCO World Heritage castle): Malbork Castle (the most precisely "Zamek w Malborku" Polish-language-full-name single Teutonic Knights castle: "Zamek" (castle — the most precisely castle-named single Polish word: from Proto-Slavic "*zamъkъ" — the most precisely lock/closing-mechanism single Proto-Slavic word also used for castle: the most comprehensively lock-and-castle single polysemous Polish vocabulary word: "zamek" (the most precisely both "lock/bolt" and "castle" single Polish vocabulary word: the most fascinating single Polish polysemy: a castle is a "zamek" and a door lock is also a "zamek" — the most precisely same-word-castle-and-lock single Polish lexical overlap: "zamek" derives from "zamknąć" (to close/to lock — the most precisely closing-action single Polish verb: from "za" (behind/after) + "mknąć" (to close/rush — the most precisely rapid-closing single Old Polish verb)) = "that which closes/locks" — both a lock (closes a door) and a castle (closes/defends a territory)). The Teutonic Order (the most precisely "Deutscher Orden" or "Teutonischer Ritterorden" German-language-full-name single medieval military-religious order): the Teutonic Knights (the most precisely 1190-Third-Crusade-Acre-hospital-origin single Teutonic Order founding: founded in Acre (the most precisely "Akko" Hebrew-named and the most precisely "Akka" Arabic-named single Crusader city: Acre (the most precisely Crusader-stronghold single Palestinian coastal city where the most precisely Teutonic Order single founding hospital was established to treat the most precisely German-Crusader-wounded single Third Crusade German pilgrim injuries).
🎫 Book tickets via GetYourGuideMuseum of the Second World War Gdansk (the most comprehensively WWII-documenting and the most precisely 2017-opened single most extensive single European WWII permanent exhibition in Poland): the Museum of the Second World War (the most precisely "Muzeum II Wojny Światowej" Polish-language-named single Gdansk WWII museum: "II Wojny Światowej" (of the Second World War — the most precisely Polish-language-genitive-case single WWII phrase: "Wojny" (war — genitive of "Wojna": "Wojna" (the most precisely war-named single Polish word: from Proto-Slavic "*vojna" — the most precisely war/military-campaign single Proto-Slavic noun: from Proto-Slavic "*vojь" (warrior — the most precisely warrior-named single Proto-Slavic word: from Proto-Indo-European "*weH₁-" — the most precisely strive/pursue single PIE verbal root: the most comprehensively war-and-warrior-vocabulary single PIE root producing: Latin "vis" (force), Gothic "waian" (to blow/strive), English "war" (from Old Norman French "werre" from Frankish "*werra" from Proto-Germanic "*werrō" from PIE "*wers-" — the most precisely confuse/mix-up single PIE root: possibly distinct from the main PIE war root but the most comprehensively converged single Germanic war vocabulary)) + "Światowej" (world — genitive adjective of "Świat": "Świat" (the most precisely world-named single Polish word: from Proto-Slavic "*světъ" — the most precisely world/light single Proto-Slavic word: from Proto-Indo-European "*k̑wey-" — the most precisely shine/light single PIE root producing: Sanskrit "śveta" (white/bright), Latin "caelum" (sky/heaven — possibly from the same root), English "white" (from Proto-Germanic "*hwītaz" from PIE "*k̑weyd-" — related root).
Artus Court and the Royal Way farewell walk (the most comprehensively Arthurian-legend-merchant-guild-named and the most precisely 12-metre-ceramic-stove single Gdansk medieval merchant hall farewell): the Artus Court (the most precisely "Dwór Artusa" Polish-language-named single Gdansk medieval merchant gathering hall: "Dwór" (court/manor — the most precisely court/manor-house-named single Polish word: from Proto-Slavic "*dvorъ" — the most precisely enclosed-yard/court single Proto-Slavic noun: from Proto-Indo-European "*dʰwer-" — the most precisely door/gate single PIE root producing: Latin "forum" (outdoor meeting place — from the same PIE root), English "door" (from Proto-Germanic "*durz" from PIE "*dʰwer-"), Greek "thura" (door) — the most comprehensively door-and-court-vocabulary single PIE root in the most geographically distributed single PIE language family) + "Artusa" (of Arthur — the most precisely genitive-case single Polish Arthurian name: from "Artur" (Arthur — the most precisely "Artur" Polish-form single Arthurian legendary king name: "Arthur" (the most precisely etymology-debated single medieval legendary British king name: "Arthur" (the most commonly "bear" single Celtic etymology interpretation: from Brittonic "*Artūros" — the most precisely "bear-man/bear-king" single Brittonic compound: from Proto-Celtic "*artos" (bear — from PIE "*h₂ŕ̥tḱos" — the most precisely bear-named single PIE animal word producing: Latin "ursus", Greek "arktos", Sanskrit "ṛkṣa", Welsh "arth", Irish "art" — the most comprehensively bear-vocabulary single PIE animal-naming root in the most geographically distributed single PIE language family)).
Gdansk farewell with Goldwasser and Baltic herring (the most atmospheric and the most comprehensively gold-flake-liqueur-and-Baltic-herring single Polish Baltic city farewell evening): the Goldwasser (the most precisely "Danziger Goldwasser" German-language-name-origin and the most comprehensively real-gold-leaf-infused single European liqueur: the most precisely 1598-Gdansk/Danzig-first-distilled single gold-flake-liqueur — the most historically original single gold-leaf-infused European spirit: invented in Danzig/Gdansk in 1598 (the most precisely 1598-first-distillation-dated single Gdansk Goldwasser production: the most precisely Ambrosio Vermöllen-founded single original Gdansk Goldwasser distillery: the most comprehensively gold-and-silver-leaf-floating single distinctive Goldwasser visual characteristic — the gold flakes (the most precisely 22-or-23-carat-gold single Goldwasser gold leaf quality: the most comprehensively food-grade-gold-leaf-in-alcohol single liqueur ingredient: 22/23-carat-gold (the most precisely near-pure-gold single gold leaf quality: 22 carat gold = 91.7% pure gold — the most precisely 22/24-gold-purity single gold measurement: 22 carat = 22 parts gold out of 24 parts total — the most precisely carat-purity-system single gold measurement system: "carat" for gold purity (from Italian "carato" — from Arabic "qīrāṭ" — from Greek "kerátion" — the most precisely carob-seed-weight single ancient measurement: the carob seed (the most precisely Ceratonia siliqua single plant: the most precisely remarkably-consistent-weight single carob seed used as the most comprehensively ancient-jewellers-weight single measurement standard: the carob seed (the most precisely approximately-0.2-gram single ancient weight standard: the most historically consistent-mass single natural seed used as ancient measurement).