Gdańsk - Danzig, the lost pearl of the Baltic

Danzig (Gdańsk) pre-war was considered to be one of the most beautiful and best preserved historic cities in Europe.



Nicknamed the "Venice of the North" (Venedig des nordes), it was one of the most powerful port-cities in Europe in the 16th and 17th century, and the by no doubt largest city in the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth with nearly 90 000 inhabitants at its peak in the turn of the 18th century.

The pre-war city consisted of the best preserved examples of dutch manneristic and renaissance architecture in this part of Europe.


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