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⭐ Highlights

3 Days in Gdansk

Where WWII began and Solidarity was born: the Long Market (most magnificent merchant-house-lined Polish city square — Neptune Fountain 1633, Artus Court with 12m ceramic stove), the Gdansk Crane (largest surviving medieval European port crane — human tread-wheel powered, 2,000kg capacity 1442-1444), Westerplatte (first shots of WWII September 1 1939 at 4:47am) and the European Solidarity Centre (August 31 1980 21 Demands signed — Lech Walesa)

📍 Gdansk, Poland 📅 3-day itinerary

Gdansk in 3 days: Long Market Długi Targ (most magnificently gabled single Polish merchant-house square — Neptune Fountain 1633 — Golden Gate 1612 — Green Gate 1568), Gdansk Crane Żuraw (most precisely 14th-15th century wooden-tread-wheel-powered single European medieval port crane — 2,000kg lifting capacity — tread-wheel workers like human hamster wheels), St. Mary's Church (world's largest brick Gothic church — 27,000 capacity — astronomical clock 1464-1470), Mariacka Street amber shops (Baltic amber 30-50 million year old Eocene fossilized resin — insects in amber), Goldwasser gold-flake liqueur (invented Gdansk/Danzig 1598 — world's original gold-leaf-infused spirit), Westerplatte (September 1 1939 4:47am first shots of WWII — 182 Polish defenders held 7 days), European Solidarity Centre 2014 (August 31 1980 21 Demands Solidarity agreement — Lech Walesa — most important single Eastern Bloc workers' document), Gdansk Shipyard Gate 2 (Three Crosses Monument 1980), Museum of WWII 2017 (largest Polish WWII museum — partially underground), Malbork Castle (50km — world's largest castle by land area 52 hectares — Teutonic Knights 13th-14th century — UNESCO 1997), farewell Goldwasser + Baltic herring.

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Also explore Gdansk for:

Long Market (Neptune Fountain 1633 + Golden Gate 1612 + Artus Court 12m stove), Gdansk Crane 1442 (human tread-wheel 2,000kg medieval port crane), St. Mary's Church (world's largest brick Gothic), Mariacka Street amber + Goldwasser 1598

Westerplatte (September 1 1939 4:47am first WWII shots — 182 defenders, 7 days), European Solidarity Centre 2014 (August 31 1980 21 Demands + Lech Walesa), Gdansk Shipyard Gate 2 + Three Crosses Monument, Old Town pierogi + Goldwasser

Malbork Castle day trip (world's largest castle — Teutonic Knights — UNESCO 1997 — 50km 1h train), Museum of WWII 2017, Artus Court farewell, Goldwasser + Baltic herring farewell on Long Market

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