Gdansk - City of Freedom!

Gdansk

Gdansk's unique location and over a thousand years of history make it distinct, decisive, with a strong and established position on the map of Europe. Called the city of freedom because of the events of August 1980, Gdańsk is a modern, European metropolis, a knowledge-based economy, a thriving center of culture, science, entertainment and sport, an attractive tourist destination and the world capital of amber. Numerous monuments, interesting history and convenient location on the Baltic Sea make not only the citizens of Gdansk think that it is the most beautiful and interesting city in Poland. 

What is worth seeing in Gdansk? Here are some suggestions:

- Amber Museum 

Gdansk is called the Amber Capital of the World. The world's largest amber fair, Amberif, attracts thousands of buyers from all over the world to the city every year. To learn about the history of amber, its processing methods and applications, you should visit the Amber Museum. There you can see prehistoric fauna and flora enclosed in amber, as well as amazing objects made of this material. 

- Uphagen House - Museum of Burgher Interiors

 Uphagen House is the former residence of the Gdańsk councillor Jan Uphagen, where you will learn how wealthy Danzigers lived in the late 18th century. Merit in this owner, who was very keen that after his death nothing was changed here. 

- Neptune's Fountain - this 650-kilogram statue can be considered the most distinctive landmark of Gdansk. It was created in 1633 and stands in front of the Artus Court and for many is certainly a symbol of the city. The figure of Neptune refers to the relationship of Gdansk with the sea. 

- Artus Court - for many years was one of the finest buildings of its kind in northern Europe. Artus Court was built in large numbers throughout Europe and especially in Hanseatic cities as a meeting place for wealthy patricians, merchants and craftsmen following the example of the legendary Round Table of King Arthur's knights. Gdansk Artus Court was an important center of social and commercial life of Gdansk and the most democratic place in the country. The representative interior of the Court houses a huge, 12 m high Renaissance tiled stove, the work of Georg Stelzener from the mid-sixteenth century, decorated with tiles painted by the master Jost, which depict portraits of prominent European rulers of the time, coats of arms and personifications of virtues and planets. Artus Court is part of the Historical Museum of the City of Gdansk.

- Main Town Hall

The most magnificent and most valuable secular building of ancient Gdansk, the seat of city government. It was built from 1379 to 1492. Helmet of the tower with a height of 80 m, created by master Dirk Daniels from Zealand, is crowned with a metal, gilded statue of King Sigismund Augustus. Completely burned down in 1945 was rebuilt until 1970, is now the headquarters of the Gdańsk History Museum.

- Long Street and Long Market forming the Royal Route are among the most beautiful streets in Gdansk. They run perpendicular to the Motlawa River from the Golden Gate to the Green Gate. Long Market in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries served as the stock market. The wealthiest Gdansk patricians, mayors, rich merchants lived here and almost every tenement house has its own interesting history. The oldest preserved houses were built already in the Middle Ages, but most of the buildings come from the modern times. The tenement houses at Dluga Street are typical Gdańsk houses with narrow facades crowned with gables or attics, richly decorated with coats of arms, allegorical figures and figures of ancient heroes. At Długi Targ Street rise the most important secular buildings of the Main Town: Main Town Hall and Artus Court.

- Golden House

It is one of the most beautiful buildings in Gdansk. It was built for Mayor Jan Speymann, a rich merchant and enlightened patron of the arts, and his wife Judith of Bahr. It was built before 1609, according to the design of Abraham van den Blocke, who was also the author of some of the sculptural decorations, completed by 1618. The tenement owes its fame to its rich façade.                     - Golden Gate

Built between 1612-1614 to a design by Abraham van den Blocke in the Renaissance style. The stone sculptures of the attic from 1648 were made by Peter Ringering. They are allegorical representations of civic virtues: Prudence, Justice, Piety and Concord. Adjacent to the Golden Gate is the Court of the Brotherhood of St. George, built by J.Glotau between 1487 and 1494 in the late Gothic style. 

- Crane

This is the largest port crane in medieval Europe, one of the most distinctive buildings in Gdansk. Located on the Motlawa River, it was used for reloading goods and placing masts on ships. It also served as the city gate. Its present form was given to it in the years 1442-1444. Inside there is a reconstructed and working drive mechanism - a huge wooden wheel, once moved by the power of human legs. The crane is one of the branches of the National Maritime Museum. 

- St. Mary's Basilica - called the "crown of the city of Gdansk" is the Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the largest brick Gothic church in Europe, was built for 159 years in several stages between 1343 and 1502. The interior contains many excellent works of medieval and Baroque art, including a stone Pieta from about 1410, A copy of The Last Judgement painted by Hans Memling in 1472, an astronomical clock made between 1464-1470 by Hans Düringer or the main altar created between 1510-1517 by master Michael of Augsburg.

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