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Until recently, the church had been in a state of ruin due to war destruction. Fortunately, it was renovated thanks to the efforts of the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre, which has restored its former glory. The church was built in the fourteenth century as the parish church of the new district of Gdańsk called ‘New

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In Gdańsk, it is worth seeing the tenement house covered with purple plaster at the corner of Mariacka and Mokra Streets. It has a non-typical crown. The building was originally erected in 1553. It is a unique example of the phenomenon of transitional form in architecture. A sign of the twilight of the old era

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Ołowianka, next to the Granaries Island, is one of the two main islands, which is worth visiting as part of a walk around Gdańsk. This place situated in the Gdanśk downtown has had strategic importance since the dawn of history. Here, in front of the Teutonic castle, were the buildings of the Monastic Szafarnia. The

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Gabriel Fahrenheit is one of the most famous citizens of Gdańsk. Every American knows the name of the Gdańsk inventor of the temperature scale, as to this day the United States has remained a country where the atmospheric temperature is measured in Fahrenheit degrees. And although the famous scientist had spent most of his life

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Neptune is not the only antique god whose artistic figurative representation decorates the area of Long Market. Mercury is the second of them. He is the Roman equivalent of the Greek Hermes, the deity of caring traders, profits, merchants, customs officers. . . as well as thieves. And it cannot be hidden that in a

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At the rear of the School of Communication and the Polish Post Office building in Gdańsk there is a high brick wall, clearly bitten by the tooth of time. Its history dates back to the seventeenth century. It was built in 1629 as a wall surrounding the building of the so-called ‘House of Correction’. In

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At the cross-section of Gnilna and Łagiewniki Streets in the Old Town, hidden in the shadow of the ‘Organika’ skyscraper, in the back of the ‘Madison’ shopping centre, there is an interesting historic church, one of the Gothic temples of Gdańsk. It is the Church of St Bartholomew, built in the second half of the

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Artur Schopenhauer, alongside Kant, Hegel and Marx, is one of the most important German philosophers. His thought is also popular in Poland, but few people associate that this genius philosopher was a Gdańsk citizen by birth. He was born in a tenement house at św. Ducha 47 Street, where today a relevant memorial board can

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When visiting the 1000-year-old city, you can easily come across discover monuments that are, for example, 600 or 800 years old. So, when coming to Gdańsk, be sure to visit the area around the Market Hall. In 2001 there was an unusual discovery made at the Market Hall in Gdańsk during archaeological excavations. The foundations

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Johannes Hevelius was a man of many talents and interests. He has written himself in the history of Gdańsk not only as a genius astronomer. He was above all a famous brewer from a family with long brewing traditions which produced delicious Jopen’s beer. As a wealthy entrepreneur, he was also the owner of a

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