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Sopot is a unique destination, and so is its accommodation offer. For demanding clients, there are high-standard hotels and apartments, while fully functional apartments and rooms are available for those with simpler needs.
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nature

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They occur mainly in Central Europe. It occurs naturally only in beech. Grown several alien species and numerous varieties of ornamental beech. Initially intensely green leaves then gently dull green. Fruit is bukiew, after ripening four flaps open releasing one or two peanuts brownish color. The tree reaches a maximum of 40 meters. It prefers shady places. Used in the manufacture of flooring and furniture. Beech is ideal for hedges because it tolerates pruning.
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The front garden is growing 120-year-old specimen of black pine, declared a natural monument.
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monuments

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Was built around 1880 on the wooded southern slope of the Babi Down in front of the Protestant cemetery. It houses several thousand graves, among others: marine painter Marian Mokwa, historian and ethnographer Wladyslaw Łęg, the mother of the writer Nobel Prize winner Czeslaw Milosz, Franz Splett.
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Plaque unveiled in 1973. Inscription: In this house in 1913-1914 housed the Museum of Kashubian-Pomeranian founded by Aleksadra Majkowski.
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Early, upland settlement Sopot is located on the border of Upper and Lower Sopot, in the northern part of the city. The hill towns, situated very defensively limited to the north and south by two valleys. They are deeply indented in the terrace level and have steep slopes difficult to travel. the bottom of the valleys to the swift flowing streams today. From the east, the hill descends steeply to the platform area podmokłemu abrasive. The area formerly occupied by the sea, and then through the swamps defended the city. Sopot settlement, nearly square shape, measuring about 50 to 45 meters of a well-preserved structures embankments. The highest, best preserved shaft and deep moat from the west indicate a particularly strong appreciation of the natural devoid of defense. Earthworks also preserved in the north and the south are much smaller. The entrance gate was also from the south. Almost square fortified interior is flat and sandy. The steep slopes of the hills and embankments covered with beech forest. In the years 1961-1963 the fortified settlement in Sopot, Gdansk Archaeological Museum conducted excavations. Unveiled two dugouts and two furnaces. The center held an empty town square called the square. Excavations have provided a rich historical material. Discovered numerous ceramic fragments made manually, which reproduces the entire vessel. Ornamentation and shape of the blood indicate a product Slavic. Found bone needles and awls, glass and amber beads, horn comb fragments and bits to the harness horse. Particularly abundant material is amber, raw material and material and amber products. Archaeological research has shown conclusively that Sopot city, erected and burned three times, was founded in the seventh century and was used until the mid tenth century. Sopot is a business culture settlement polish period. He was a tribal stronghold coastal guards acting roles. These roles mid tenth century took preferably located, stronger, growing Gdańsk, which is an expression of political changes on the Polish Pomerania during the formation of the state. Currently, the settlement shows are held jousting, archery, crafts demonstrations and lessons are conducted for the living history school.
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The building of the early twentieth century, designed by one of the most distinguished architects Sopot - Paul Puchmuller. The house is covered with ceramic roof, with extensive scenic balconies and turrets. A characteristic feature of the building there are two three-storey bay windows falling living rooms.
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The villa was built at the request of August Karpiński, following the design of Gdańsk architect Paul Renzel. It was a two-story, neoclassical house featuring distinctive architectural elements such as a viewing loggia on the upper floor, a two-winged risalit, and a side tower crowned with a pointed spire and lantern. In 1909, an annex was constructed next to the villa, also designed by Renzel. In 1912, Karpiński sold the villa, then known as Villa Martha, to Ignatz Paul Schröder from Sopot. The new owner commissioned architect Fr. Jödicke to renovate the annex, transforming it into the Ipsiana Cigarette Factory. In 1919, the estate was purchased by Witold Kukowski, a lawyer and economist. Kukowski oversaw the renovation of the entrance on the southern and eastern sides and modified the tower’s top, assigning the work to Gdańsk architect W. Harnau. After 1926, the villa came into the possession of Saturnin Edward Doering, a marzipan and cocoa manufacturer, who operated part of his business there until the 1930s.
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entertainment

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