EURO CITY BREAK

Gdansk is a city that breathes freedom. Standing on the shores of the Baltic Sea it has been a wealthy merchant port, a free city state and the flashpoint for the two most significant events in 20th-century Polish history. It is where World War II began and where the collapse of communism started. Yet despite this heavy history Gdansk is not a sombre place. It is arguably the most beautiful city in Poland with a skyline of red brick spires and narrow Hanseatic townhouses that