Westerplatte

Pomeranian Voivodeship · Poland

Westerplatte, Poland
Photo: Osmar Valdebenito from Santiago, Chile, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
Late spring to summer
Budget
$
Accessibility
limited
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A peninsula at the mouth of Gdańsk harbor where the first shots of the Second World War were fired in 1939. Ruins of the Polish military depot and a towering memorial mark the site of its defenders' stand.

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