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 Gdansk it is a well-known town on the Baltic Sea, with a long story and color. Gdansk it is the sixth town of the Poland for dimensions, is the main port, and is the capital of the voivodeship of Pomerania (from 1945 to 1998 Danzig it was capital of the Voivodeship of Gdansk, now doing not more exist).
 Its saying is Nec to fear, shy nec (Né rashly, né shily).
 The town lies on the south coast of the gulf of Gdansk (on the Baltic Sea), and with its population of about 460,000 residents, it is the main town of the historical province of the Eastern Pomerania.
 Since the medieval age, Gdansk was an important maritime port, divenne later on an important center for the naval shipbuilding industry and limb of the Hanseatic League. The town is renowned all over the world like cradle of the motion Solidarnosc that, under the leadership of Lech Walesa, played an important role for the fall of the regime communist in Poland. Today Gdansk it remains an important industrial center together to the neighbor port of Gdynia.

 The population was culturally and ethnically different, given from German, Poles, Flemish, Jews, Scots but Dutch above all, that left the most significant imprint archittettonica in the historic city center. To long well-known with the name German (official tongue) of Gdansk, was the most important port of the Prussia. With the passage in 1945 to the Poland the name is become Gdansk.
 Gdansk it is situated to the mouth of the river, a branching of the delta of the Vistula, whose system river colleague 60% of the Polish territory, giving to the town a sole advantage like center of the maritime commerce of the Poland. In the past, Gdansk knew to exploit excellently this advantage, maintaining the position of larger Polish town until 1770.
 One of the main ports of the region since the XIV century and subsequently an important shipbuilding center naval, the Gdansk of today remains an important industrial center, although the development in the years '20 of the neighbor port of Gdynia. The two town, together with the thermal locality of Sopot, constitute an urban area called Triple Town.