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Gdańsk Gates, Churches and Civic Landmarks

Gdańsk Gates, Churches and Civic Landmarks

Gdansk · Poland

14 stops
  • 4 languages
  • Offline

Walk through Gdańsk’s historic centre to see a ceremonial market street, decorated gates, civic buildings, churches, and the city’s riverside crane. Along the way, notice the contrast between richly ornamented façades, brick ecclesiastical interiors, defensive entrances, and the industrial character of the former power plant. This walk is worthwhile for the way its stops bring together public ceremony, religious life, trade, transport, and music in a compact route.

The walk

Stops 1–6 of 14. The rest are in the app.

  1. Long Market

    Long Market

    Long Market is an attraction in Gdańsk, Poland.

  2. Green Gate

    Green Gate

    A royal residence that never hosted a Polish king, built with Dutch ship-ballast bricks.

  3. Neptune's Fountain

    Neptune's Fountain

    A sea god, a royal gesture, and four centuries of engineering trouble in one fountain.

  4. 8 more stops on this walk, in the app
  5. Artus Court

    Artus Court

    A merchant elite’s meeting house that became Gdańsk’s grandest social room and later a museum.

  6. Museum of Gdansk

    Museum of Gdansk

    A city hall rebuilt again and again, where Gdańsk’s power became architecture.

  7. St. Mary's Church, Gdańsk

    St. Mary's Church, Gdańsk

    A vast Brick Gothic church whose history runs from medieval builders to Lutheran Gdańsk and royal compromise.

  8. Stop 7

  9. Stop 8

  10. Stop 9

  11. 8 more stops in the app

Data: OpenStreetMap contributors and Google Places

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How a walk works

8 more stops in the app

This page shows the first 6 of 14 stops. The rest of the walk, and the guide who narrates it, are in the app.

  1. Pick a walk

    Every stop is a real place, already in walking order.

  2. Pocket your phone

    Follow the line on the live map, or download the walk before you lose signal.

  3. Listen as you arrive

    On a narrated walk the story starts on its own at each stop, so your eyes stay on the place.

See the whole walk in the app

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  • The route, followed

    A live map with the turns called out, and a way back whenever you wander off it.

  • In four languages

    English, French, Spanish and Arabic — the words and the voice, not just the labels.

  • Or build your own

    Pick the places you actually want and the app works out the order to walk them in.

  • The unglamorous things

    Toilets, pharmacies, cash points and water, without leaving the walk.

  • No signal needed

    Download a walk before you go and it works under a souk roof or on a plane.

  • Picks up where you left off

    Stop for lunch, come back tomorrow, and the walk is exactly where you left it.