Gdansk 1 Hour Guided Tour through the Heart of the Old Town
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Gdansk, Poland
60 to 75 minutes (approx.)
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Overview
This is not a boring history lesson, but a journey full of passion, energy and extraordinary stories! You'll be comfortably seated, feeling the refreshing breeze, and I'll show you Gdańsk like you've never seen it before. No walking, no rush – just you, the city, and memories that'll last a lifetime.
What's Included
- Entrance to St. Bridget's Church
- Tea and coffee Coffee and/or Tea
- Meals
- Carbonated beverages Soda/Pop
Meeting Location
Meeting point
Długi Targ
80-828 Gdańsk, Poland
Detailed check-in instructions, including the exact address, are provided with your booking confirmation.
End point
This activity ends back at the meeting point.
What To Expect
The Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre
The Gdansk Shakespeare Theatre is a Shakespearean theatre in Gdansk, Poland. It is built on the site of a 17th-century theatre, known as the Fencing School, where English travelling players performed works of English Renaissance theatre.It was built by architect Renato Rizzi in the light of Limon's research which suggests that the Fencing School was modelled on the Fortune Playhouse in London. Though not an attempt at an exact reproduction, the new theatre combines elements from the design of these earlier theatres with modern technology. It opened in September 2014.
1 minute • Admission Ticket Free
Brama Wyzynna
The Highland Gate, formerly also known as the "High Gate" was once the main entrance to Gdansk, while being a defensive object. It was within its walls that Polish kings were solemnly welcomed and keys to the city were handed to them. The gate was built in the years 1574 - 1576 according to the design of Jan Kramer. It was located in the western part of modern Gdańsk fortifications, which in the past also included a high earth rampart, reinforced with powerful bastions.
2 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Prison Tower
The Torture Chamber was built in the second half of the 14th century as a medieval fortification of the Main Town in Gdańsk. Together with the Prison Tower, it formed a gatehouse on Długa Street.
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Gdansk Katownia
The Torture Chamber in Gdańsk was built in the second half of the 14th century as part of the medieval defence system of the Main Town, serving as the gatehouse of Długa Street together with the Prison Tower. In the 16th century, after the modernisation of the city fortifications, the building was converted into a court, prison and place of execution, hence its name. Between 1593 and 1604, the Torture Chamber was rebuilt according to a design by Antoni van Obberghen, with rich sculptural decoration by Willem van der Meer. The interiors housed, among other things, an interrogation room, cells for the most dangerous criminals and apartments for prison staff. For over two and a half centuries, the Torture Chamber and Prison Tower were places of courts, torture and executions, mainly of people from the lower social classes. After the prison was closed in the mid-19th century, the building was used as a military warehouse and then handed over to the city.
3 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Golden Gate (Zlota Brama)
The Golden Gate is a historic Renaissance city gate in Gdańsk, Poland. It is located within the Royal Route, the most prominent part of the Old Town and is one of its most notable tourist attractions. It was created in 1612–14 in place of a 13th-century Gothic gate, the Brama Długouliczna (Long Street Gate). It is located at one end of Ulica Długa (Long Lane), where, together with Brama Wyżynna (Highland Gate) and Wieża Więzienna (Prison Tower), it forms a part of the old city fortifications.
3 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Millenium Tree
The Millennium Tree is a contemporary monument in the form of a polished stainless steel tree commemorating the 1000th anniversary of Gdańsk. The tree features branches with leaves from maple, oak, linden and other trees, as well as birds, butterflies, a lizard, a spider, the Warsaw mermaid, a beetle from Great Britain and a sprig of eucalyptus from blacksmiths in Australia.
1 minute • Admission Ticket Free
Wybrzeze Theatre (Teatr Wybrzeze)
The Coal Market Square is a square in the Main City, Gdansk, Poland and a part of Royal Road. The site where Coal Market is located today was granted to the city by privilege in 1342. From the 15th century, the square was used for coal trading. The area directly in front of the armoury was called Pea Market, and on its western side there was a flea market called Tandeta.
2 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Baszta Slomiana (Strohturm)
Strohturm – a historic, octagonal fortified tower in Gdańsk's Main Town. The tower was built of brick in the second half of the 14th century to provide additional protection for the western fortifications of medieval Gdańsk. Its name may come from the original thatched roof, which was later replaced with tiles. The tower got its current shape in the first half of the 15th century.
2 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Great Armoury (Wielka Zbrojownia)
Great Armory also known as the arsenal, it is the most impressive secular Mannerist building in the city. It was inspired by the Meat Market in Haarlem. The growing threat from Sweden at the end of the 16th century prompted Gdańsk townspeople to prepare for war. Feeling the lack of warehouses for the war equipment produced in the city and around, they decided to build a special arsenal. However, the project was not limited to erecting a warehouse with a strictly functional function. The armory was built in the years 1602 - 1605.
2 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Jan III Sobieski Monument
Jan III Sobieski Monument was unveiled on November 20, 1898 (founded by the city of Lviv). It is the work of Lviv sculptor Tadeusz Barącz, cast in bronze at Artur Krupp's Viennese workshop. The king was depicted in a traditional national dress - a zupping and robe, when he jumps over a destroyed Turkish cannon on a battle steed with a mace in his hand.
1 minute • Admission Ticket Free
St. Mary's Church
oyal Chapel the baroque Catholic chapel in the Main Town of Gdańsk was built in the years 1678 - 1681 on the initiative of Gdańsk Catholics with the help of King Jan III Sobieski. It was built as a temporary Catholic chapel for the faithful at a time when St. Mary's Church was in the hands of Protestants.
2 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Zuraw miniatura
The Crane it consisted of of two brick towers, between which a wooden hoisting mechanism was installed. The crane was used to erect masts and reload goods, it was also a city gate. In 1945, during the war, the crane was destroyed (the wooden structure burned down completely). After the war, it was rebuilt and handed over to the Central Maritime Museum. Currently, there are organized thematically exhibitions related to the life of the Gdansk port. Tourists can also enter the lifting mechanism since 2003.
2 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Karuzela Gdanska
The Fish Market is a market square in Gdańsk. It is located in the north-western corner of the Main Town, on the Motława River, near the former Teutonic castle. It was established by virtue of a privilege granted by Grand Master Ludolf König in 1343, whereby the Teutonic Knights secured priority in the purchase of fish. Initially, the Fish Market was open from the Motława River side, but in 1448 it was separated from the river by a wall with a single gate. In 1482, a new gate was built, known today as Straganiarska Gate.
1 minute • Admission Ticket Free
Museum Of The Second World War
The Museum of the Second World War is a state cultural institution and museum established in 2008 in Gdańsk, Poland, which is devoted to the Second World War. Its exhibits opened in 2017. The museum is supervised by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.
2 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Motlawa River Embankment (Dlugie Pobrzeze)
Long Coast is a waterfront promenade in Gdańsk's Main Town, stretching along the western bank of the Motława River. Along the street are water gates characteristic of Gdańsk's architecture. The street was once called Długi Most (Long Bridge). The first mentions of a harbour on this bank of the Motława River date back to the 14th century. For centuries, the site of today's promenade was occupied by unconnected wooden platforms of various heights, used for loading and unloading ships. In the 17th century, they were connected into a single pier.
2 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Wyspa Olowianka (Pass By)
Ołowianka is an island in Gdańsk on the Motława River and the Stępka Canal, located in the Śródmieście district. Between 1343 and 1454, it was owned by the Teutonic Knights.
During the Teutonic Knights' era, it was an area of great strategic importance, as evidenced by the fact that it was here that the buildings of the order's steward were erected. It was connected to Zamczysko, located on the other side of the Motława River, first by a bridge and then, from 1417, by a ferry. Ołowianka was not yet an island at that time. It only became one after the Stępka Canal was dug in 1576.
Gdansk Shipyard
Gate No. 2 of the Gdańsk Shipyard was considered the main entrance to the plant due to its proximity to the management buildings and convenient connection to Gdańsk city centre and the Gdańsk Główny railway station. On 16 December 1970, striking shipyard workers leaving the shipyard through Gate No. 2 were fired upon by army troops. Two people were killed and eleven were wounded. Before the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers was erected, the gate was the first place of remembrance for the victims of December.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Museum of the Polish Post Office - Museum of Gdansk
The Polish Post Office in the Free City of Danzig was established in Danzig under the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, and its buildings were considered extraterritorial Polish property. The Polish Post Office in Danzig comprised several buildings, originally built as a German military hospital. In 1930 the "Gdańsk 1" building on Hevelius Platz (square) in the Danziger Altstadt (Old Town) became the primary Polish post office, with a direct telephone line to Poland. In 1939 it employed slightly over 100 people.
3 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Bunkier
Luftschutz Hochbunker, a multi-storey above-ground air-raid shelter on Olejarna Street, was built between 1942 and 1943. Olejarna Street, was built between 1942 and 1943. The six-storey structure (one storey is underground) is covered with a double roof with a layer of sand between reinforced concrete slabs, and the whole building has an area of approximately 1,000 square metres. The external walls are 120 cm thick, while the internal walls are up to 60 cm thick. All walls are reinforced with steel, and the concrete used in the construction is as hard as granite.
1 minute • Admission Ticket Free
St. Catherine's Church (Kosciol Sw. Katarzyny)
The construction of the St. Catherine’s Church began in 1227. The church was expanded during the 14th and 15th Centuries. The church tower was erected in 1450, but it was not completed until 1634, when it was elevated and crowned with a Baroque copula made by Jacob van den Blocke after the Teutonic Knights were driven out of the town. The most important date in the tower’s history is the year of 1738, when its interior was equipped with a carillon. In 1555, the church was occupied by the Protestants, who remained in charge of it until 1945, when the building was handed over to the Carmelite order.
2 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
St. Bridget's Church (Kosciol sw. Brygidy)
St. Bridget's Church in Gdańsk was built in the 14th century on the site of an earlier penitential chapel dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene, which had existed since around 1350. The construction of the monastery church began after 1394, when the Order of St. Bridget was brought to Gdańsk on the wave of the cult of St. Bridget of Sweden. The first, single-nave temple was completed in 1396–1397, and then expanded until the 16th century. The church has been rebuilt and renovated many times, especially after fires and war damage. St. Bridget's Church played an important role in the recent history of Poland – in August 1980, it became one of the symbols of Solida.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Gdansk
The hermit's house on Katarzynki Street in Gdańsk is actually a Mannerist tenement house known as the House of Three Preachers (Dom Kaznodziejów), located at Katarzynki 1-3, in the immediate vicinity of St. Catherine's Church in the Old Town. It was built between 1599 and 1602 and from the beginning served as a residential house for the pastors of St. Catherine's Church. In the 19th century, it housed a church secondary school, and at the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th century, a new tenement house was added on the west side. During World War II, the building was severely damaged, but its façade survived. The reconstruction was completed in 1970. Since 2008, the building has been owned by the Carmelite Order, but it has not been developed by them in accordance with the original plans.
2 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Most Chlebowy - "Most MiloSci"
The Bread Bridge in Gdańsk is one of the oldest and most distinctive bridges in the city, built between 1338 and 1356 over the Radunia Canal. It connects Kowalska and Korzenna Streets, and its name comes from the bakers who sold bread here in special stalls called bread benches from the 14th century onwards. Over the centuries, the bridge has been rebuilt many times – among other things, at the beginning of the 20th century, it was widened and a tram line was built across it. After World War II, trams no longer ran, and in 2002–2003, the bridge underwent a thorough renovation, during which its historical appearance was restored with a cobbled surface, stylised railings and lanterns.
1 minute • Admission Ticket Free
Gdansk (Pass By)
The Millers' Guild Hall in Gdańsk is a building erected in 1831 as the seat of the millers' guild and a facility for the nearby Great Mill. The building represents half-timbered architecture and was originally located on a small island formed by the arms of the Radunia Canal.
Heweliusz Monument
The monument to Johannes Hevelius in the square on Korzenna Street in Gdańsk, opposite the Old Town Hall, commemorates this outstanding citizen of Gdańsk – astronomer, mathematician, inventor and brewer, author of the first atlas of the Moon, Selenographia, and discoverer of many comets and constellations. It stands on the site where Hevelius ran his astronomical observatory in the 17th century. It was unveiled on 28 January 2006 during the celebrations of the 395th anniversary of the astronomer's birth.
2 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Neptune's Fountain (Fontanna Neptuna)
The Neptune Fountain in Gdańsk is one of the city's most recognisable symbols, emphasising its connection with the sea. It was erected on the initiative of Mayor Bartłomiej Schachmann and the city council, and was designed by Abraham van den Blocke. Work on the fountain began in the early 17th century, and the sculpture of Neptune itself was cast in bronze by Piotr Husena in 1612. The fountain was not installed and put into operation until 1633, after numerous delays related to, among other things, the reconstruction of Artus Court and technical problems.
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Additional Info
- Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Frequently Asked Questions
(6)Q: What is the cancellation policy for the Gdansk 1 Hour Guided Tour through the Heart of the Old Town?
Cancellation Policy
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the tour for a full refund.
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Activity code: C-5563012P1
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Frequently Asked Questions (6)
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What is the cancellation policy for the Gdansk 1 Hour Guided Tour through the Heart of the Old Town?
A:Apr 2025
You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the tour for a full refund.
- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the tour start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the tour start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the tour start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the tour local time (CEST).
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What's included in the price?
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Apr 2025
The following is included:
- Entrance to St. Bridget's Church.
The following is NOT included:
- Tea and coffee. Coffee and/or Tea.
- Meals.
- Carbonated beverages. Soda/Pop.
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What is the minimum age for this tour?
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There is no minimum age for this tour, so bring your wee one along for an adventure. This tour requires at least one adult to accompany children..
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My date is not available in the calendar, I am just checking to see if it is available?
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If a date or time is not listed on the calendar, it’s sold out or unavailable for another reason. Support cannot assist further if a date or time is not on the calendar.
If you find a date and time that works for you, book it NOW because things always sell out at this time of year.
Apr 2025
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Is this an accessible tour?
A:Apr 2025
Accessibility information for the Gdansk 1 Hour Guided Tour through the Heart of the Old Town is as follows:
- Wheelchair accessible
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
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Where is the meeting point for this activity?
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Detailed check-in instructions – including meeting point address, Google map, and parking information – for Gdansk 1 Hour Guided Tour through the Heart of the Old Town will be included in your confirmation email from City Boat Tours. Please be sure to double and triple check your email address is correct at checkout so this important email makes its way to you!
Mar 2024What's Included
- Entrance to St. Bridget's Church
- Tea and coffeeCoffee and/or Tea
- Meals
- Carbonated beveragesSoda/Pop
Additional Info
- Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
- Wheelchair accessible
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
