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- Bishop Edward O'Rourke
- An Irishman Remembered
- Scottish Gdańsk
- Christmas in Poland
- Gateaways of Gdańsk
- Local Beer
- Hotelcalculator with IYP
- The Return of the Resort House
- Copernicus in Gdansk
- Gdansk In Your Pocket in iPaper
- EURO 2012
- Where to find Gdansk In Your Pocket
- Pirat Andrzej
- Phoenix from the flames
- Local Gifts
- Local Nutter
- Wałęsa's old home
- The Pope in Gdansk
- Pole to Pole
- Pomerania
- Gunter Grass
- Goldwasser
- Know Gdansk
- August Accords
- Disaster at sea
More features:
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Wałęsa's old home
Before Lech Walesa was thrust into the limelight and into the history books from the beginning of the 1980s, he lived like most of his co-workers in one of the huge housing developments which were built up around the city.... -
Gdansk In Your Pocket in iPaper
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Scottish Gdańsk
If you’ve been reading our reviews and using our maps you may have noticed that the Tri-City is the home of two suburbs named Nowe and Stare Szkoty (New and Old Scots).... -
The Return of the Resort House
For most foreign visitors Gdansk is the region’s calling card, and Walesa, Hitler and Hevelius have done much over the years to put it on the international map.... -
Bishop Edward O'Rourke
One curious connection between Gdansk/Danzig and Ireland is the fact that the city’s first Roman Catholic bishop was Count Edward O’Rourke.... -
Goldwasser
No visit to Gdańsk is complete without sampling the local fire water, Goldwasser vodka. Created by Ambrose Vermollen, a Dutch migrant living in Gdańsk, the first recorded mention of it dates to 1598, though it would be years later that Vermollen would open the first recorded distillery, Der Lachs (The Salmon) on ul .... -
Christmas in Poland
Holiday season officially kicks off on December 6th, Dzien Świętego Mikołaja to some, the feast day of St Nicholas to the rest.... -
Gateaways of Gdańsk
If Prague is the City of Spires, then that surely makes Gdańsk the City of Gateways. There are, simply speaking, a fair few, and while some stand out like neon toadstools others can be missed with the blink of an eye.... -
Copernicus in Gdansk
Nicolaus Copernicus, better known as the lad who shocked the world with his theory the world revolved around the sun, has had plenty of words written about him – not least in our Frombork section.... -
Gunter Grass
Often cited as ‘Germany’s collective conscience’, and commonly regarded as the country’s greatest living poet, novelist and playwright, Gunter Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig on October 16, 1927 and was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1999.... -
Disaster at sea
The sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff on January 30, 1945 rates as one of the worst maritime disasters in history.... -
The Pope in Gdansk
June 2007 saw the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul’s visit to Gdansk. During his visit, the Pope celebrated an open-air mass at Zaspa, the huge residential area 5km to the north of Gdansk city centre.... -
Local Nutter
Technically German, but born in Sopot, Klaus Kinski is arguably the town’s most famous son. Born into poverty, Kinski found himself flirting with adventure from an early age when he was forced to steal to feed his family.... -
Local Beer
Polish vodka, great, Polish beer, not so great. That’s not a rare opinion, and one frequently espoused by the staff of In Your Pocket....
Where to find Gdansk In Your Pocket
EMPiK bookstore (CITY FORUM, ul. Podwale, Gdansk)
EMPiK bookstore (ul. Bohaterow Monte Cassino, Sopot)
RELAY newsstand (Gdansk Airport)
RELAY newsstand (Sopot Railway station - platform)
RELAY newsstand (Galeria Baltycka, ul. Grunwaldzka, Gdansk)
PTTK Information Office (ul. Dluga 45, Gdansk)
Gdansk Tourist Organisation Point (ul. Heweliusza 29, Gdansk)
Gdansk Tourist Organisation Point (Gdansk Airport)
Gdansk Tourist Organisation Point (Gdansk Glowny Railway Station)
Tourist Information Office (ul. Dworcowa, Sopot)
Tourist Information Office (Gdynia Glowna Railway Station)
Guides are also available as a complimentary copy for the guests of the following hotels:
Gdansk Apartments (Gdansk)
Hotel lalala (Sopot)
Hotel Amber (Sopot)
Hotel Antares (Gdynia)
Hotel Antracyt (Gdynia)
Hotel Aureus (Gdansk)
Hotel Bartan (Gdansk – Sobieszewo)
Hotel Blick (Gdynia)
Hotel Cztery Pory Roku (Gdansk - Straszyn)
Hotel Dom Aktora (Gdansk)
Hotel Dom Muzyka (Gdansk)
Hotel Dwór Oliwski (Gdansk – Oliwa)
Hotel Dworek Admiral (Sopot)
Hotel Europa (Sopot)
Hotel Faltom (Gdynia)
Hotel Gdańsk (Gdansk)
Hotel Gdynia Orbis (Gdynia)
Hotel Gryf (Gdansk)
Hotel Haffner (Sopot)
Hotel Hanza (Gdansk)
Hotel Holiday Inn (Gdansk)
Hotel Hotton (Gdynia)
Hotel Królewski (Gdansk)
Hotel Kuracyjny (Sopot)
Hotel Lival (Gdansk - Brzezno)
Hotel Mercure Hevelius (Gdansk)
Hotel Miramar (Sopot)
Hotel Moris (Gdansk – Jelitkowo)
Hotel Nadmorski (Gdynia)
Hotel Novotel Centrum (Gdansk)
Hotel Novotel Marina (Gdansk – Jelitkowo)
Hotel Oliwski (Gdansk – Oliwa)
Hotel Opera (Sopot)
Hotel Palac w Leźnie (Gdansk)
Hotel Pica Paca (Gdansk)
Hotel Podewils (Gdansk)
Hotel Posejdon Orbis (Gdansk – Jelitkowo)
Hotel Rezydent (Sopot)
Hotel Sheraton Sopot (Sopot)
Hotel Sofitel Grand Sopot (Sopot)
Hotel Szydłowski (Gdansk – Wrzeszcz)
Hotel Villa Aqua (Sopot)
Hotel Villa Baltica (Sopot)
Hotel Villa Eva (Gdansk – Wrzeszcz)
Hotel Villa Gdynia (Gdynia)
Hotel Villa Karat II (Sopot)
Hotel Villa Sedan (Sopot)
Hotel Willa Biała Lilia (Gdansk)
Hotel Willa Litarion (Gdansk)
Hotel Willa Lubicz (Gdynia – Orlowo)
Hotel Wolne Miasto (Gdansk)
Hotel Zhong Hua (Sopot)
Kamienica Goldwasser (Gdansk)
Kamienica Gotyk (Gdansk)
Pensojnat Stara Karczma (Gdansk – Oliwa)
Villa Admirał (Sopot)
Villa Angela (Gdansk)
Zajazd Pod Olivką (Gdansk – Oliwa)
And guides are also available as complimentary copies for the customers/passengers of the following:
AVIS car-rental
Hertz car-rental
Passenger Information Points on Stena Line ferries from Sweden