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is more than one thousand years old,

in 1650 already had 70 thousands inhabitants,

has the biggest church made of brick in the world,

is known as “the world’s capital of amber”,

has many famous citizens like: Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit – a physicist , Johannes Hevelius – an astronomer and a brewer, Arthur Schopenhauer – a philosopher, Guenter Grass – a Nobel Prize winner in Literature and finally Lech Walesa – a former Polish President,a Solidarity leader and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

has the longest wooden pier in Europe (511,5 meters),

is mostly covered by forest,

has famous Forest Opera, which was opened more than 100 years ago,

is known as Polish Monte Carlo. It is because of many hotels, clubs and a casino.

is one of the youngest and fastest developing Polish city,

one hundred years ago had only one thousand inhabitants,

is known as “the city built of the sea and dreams”,

became the biggest port on the Baltic Sea just 13 years after building,

has on its official website information that “the best thing is to be a Gdynia resident, but this is the privilege enjoyed by few (ca. 250 thousand inhabitants). What we suggest to the remaining 6 billion inhabitants of the globe is that they at least visit our city - it is beautiful, comfortable and, according to scientists, the sunniest Polish city (1,671 hours of sunshine annually)”.