PRIVATE GUIDE IN GDANSK



GDAŃSK OLIWA SOPOT GDYNIA WESTERPLATTE	KARTUZY MALBORK FROMBORK ŻUŁAWY


The Prison Tower and the Torture House. At present housing the Amber Museum. Among the exhibits – there is an inclusion – a lizard trapped in amber. In the Torture House cells and medieval torture tools can be seen. www.mhmg.gda.pl	Great Armoury – the most beautiful European example of the Dutch Mannerism	The Golden Gate – opening the Royal Route


Teh Royal Route – the icon of Gdansk	The Gdansk Main Town Hall www.mhmg.gda.pl	The Red Room – the most splendid room of the Main Town Hall, where on the ceiling a 17th century plafond cocomposed of 25 paintings can be admired www.mhmg.gda.pl


The Main Town Hall Carillon chiming lovely every hour www.mhmg.gda.pl	Arthur's Court – a meeting place of the Gdansk's guilds, where the wealthiest town's patricians were outdoing the others in founding the marvelous pieces of art, paintings, sculptures and the stove. At the same time it was the most renowned tavern in Europe, with wine cellars filled with over 200 kinds of wine from whole Europe. Gdansk's Arthur's Court was the first informal museum in Europe. www.mhmg.gda.pl	The King of Tiled Stoves in Arthur's Court www.mhmg.gda.pl


Neptune Fountain – the king of the seas and oceans, another icon of the Hanseatic city of Gdansk, a meeting place for tourists	One of Gdansk's façades - with the image of William Shakespeare	The Green Gate – which never was green, closes the Royal Route


The Monument of Fallen Shipyard Workers	The Great Crane – The biggest wooden port crane in the 15th century Europe, driven with the power of workers' muscles	Mariacka Street – where wonderfully restored porches can be admired. Till today the street has the unique climate of the hanseatic town. Here also numerous amber aglleries are situated Gdansk's gargoil.


Gdańsk gargoyle	Dominican Fair – the biggest event – after October Fest in Germany and one of the oldest. For 3 weeks Gdansk's streets fill with stalls and stands. Nearly everything can be bought then – form a lollipop to a piece of art.	The Gold of the Baltic – amber. This petrified resin, being over 40 million years old, makes us admire its beauty and uniqueness. Every piece of amber is different. There is more than 200 different colours and shades of amber from yellow through brown, bluish, greenish, to white. It always attracted and fascinated people. The biggest „stone” in the Pharaoh's crown was „our” amber. Once for a medium size lump of amber a slave could be bought…. Today amber is mainly beautiful jewellery which is said to have some healing properties.


Inclusion – A lizard trapped in Baltic amber	St. Mary's Church – world's biggest brick church, where 25 thousand people can be inside at one time. The church dominates the view of Gdansk www.bazylikamariacka.pl	A copy of Hans Memling's painting „The Last Judgement” - one of the most interesting presentations of the medieval vision of the last judgement


„Medieval computer”, Astronomical clock	„Medieval comics”, i.e. The board with the Ten Commandments. A very interesting presentation of the „bible pauperum” - bible addressed to the poorest – who in medieval times were illiterate. On the ten sections we can also see the medieval fashion.	The High Altar


St. Catherine's church – the oldest church in Gdansk, where the famous gdansk brewer and astronomer, Johann Hevelius was burried




Oliwa Pak - established by the cistercians. Consists of two parts: English and French.	Abbots Palace	Oliwa Cathedral


Organ in the Oliwa Cathedral – the most renowned in Poland baroque/rococco organ. During touristic season short 20 minutes presentations can be heard everyday.The instrument consists of 7876 pipes and 110 voices. It has 5 keyboards. The biggest pipe is abt. 10 m high and 46 cm width. Since 1956 International Organ Music Festivals are being organized annualy here.	The High Altar – with 150 heads of cherubs in the upper part	Medieval brick with traces of man's fingers, placed in the ambulatory




Wooden pier – an ikon of Sopot and its symbol. 511m long – enables to admire beautiful views of the Gdansk Bay as well as Redłowo Cliff.	Grand Hotel – the most famous hotel in th north Poland, having a specific climate.The participants of the International Summer Sopot Song Festival stay here. Within the 40 years tradition of the festival, the greatest stars have given concerts in the Forest Opera. Among them was Whitney Houston, and Elton John.	Art Nouveau house in Sopot


„Crooked House” in Sopot	Bicycle path along the coast




South Pier – from here is the best view into the sea nature of this town, which before the 2nd world War grew up to become the biggest and most modern sea port on the Baltic	Błyskawica, one of the 3 destroyers, most modern in the Polish pre-war Navy. During the 2nd World War served in the British Royal Navy	Dar Pomorza, an honoured sail ship, which was in service of the Maritime Academy




Guardhouse No 1.Ruins of the Barracks www.mhmg.gda.pl	Ruins of the headquarter	Symbolic graveyard – commemorating the 15 fallen Polish soldiers


A monument commemorating Poilsh soldiers in the 2nd World War




Former Carthusian church in Kartuzy	Beautiful cordovans in the chancel	Stalls for monks


A clock pendulum – reminding of inevitability of death




The view from the Nogat side	Fasade of medieval Infirmery, hospital	The Grand Masters' palace


Medieval door-knocker	High Castle tower	The convent kitchen.the well in the High Castle


Cloister in the High Castle	High Castle vestibule	The most famous Grand Masters




The view on the cathedral Hill	Western view on the Cathedral in Frombork	Frombork organ – a set of rare pipes - „Spanish Trumpets”. Frombork is one of the two places in the


NMP	Western Entrance	Holes in the walls – being the remainings of the medieval scaffolding Former Bishops' Palace, now Nikolaus Copernicus Museum


Frombork Creature	Medieval Holy Spirit Hospital housing and interesting mdeical museum and a herbal garden	Storks' nest on the Hospital's gable




An arcaded house	A footprint of a dog on a medieval brick on the church wall in Jeziernik	Wisła, the Queen of Polish rivers

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