Self-guided walking tour

Gdańsk Walking Tour: Solidarity and the Shipyard (4 hours, 7 stops)

7 stops in walking order through Gdańsk, from Europejskie Centrum Solidarności to SS Sołdek: 3.5 km on foot, about 42 min of walking, 4 h in total with the story and a look around at each stop. Walking times come from the routed walking path, not a straight line. It is the route of “Solidarity and the Shipyard”, a ready-made tour in the Guided Tours app.

Total: 4 h
Distance: 3.5 km
Walking: 42 min
Stops: 7

The stops, in walking order

Europejskie Centrum Solidarności
The European Solidarity Centre in Gdańsk is a museum and library exploring Solidarity and opposition to Communist rule across Eastern Europe.
5 min walk · 420 m
Sala BHP
A historic hall in the Gdańsk Shipyard where the August Agreements were signed in nineteen eighty.
3 min walk · 230 m
Historyczna brama nr 2 Stoczni Gdańskiej
Historic Gate Number Two is the Gdańsk Shipyard’s main entrance and a key site in the story of the shipyard strikes.
1 min walk · 50 m
Pomnik Poległych Stoczniowców 1970
The Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of nineteen seventy stands beside Gate Number Two of Gdańsk Shipyard.
15 min walk · 1.3 km
Pomnik Ofiarom Stanu Wojennego
A reclining-figure memorial on Targ Rakowy, commemorating Antoni Browarczyk, Poland’s first person killed under martial law.
11 min walk · 920 m
Tym co za polskość Gdańska
A memorial built from concrete blocks that evoke an axe driven into the earth.
7 min walk · 590 m
SS Sołdek
A preserved steam cargo ship in the National Maritime Museum collection.