SOPOT - Day-2 of 4 days Gdansk trip || The cruise ride || Places to visit in Poland || OPAL Cruise

SOPOT - The cruise ride from Gdansk || Places to visit in Poland || Travel guide || OPAL Cruise

4 Days Gdansk - Sopot - Gdynia - Hel island
Day 1 - https://youtu.be/sHM2Z-82_v8
Day 2 - This video
Day 3 - coming soon

Episodes:

00:00 - Promo
00:15 - Introduction
01:07 - Crossing the ship museum GDANSK
01:34 - Walk towards the Giant wheel
01:58 - Ticketing
02:45 - On to the GDANSKA cruise ship
04:27 - Huge ships at GDANSK Harbour
08:20 - Arrival at SOPOT
08:28 - SOPOT Pier
09:20 - SOPOT Beach
09:45 - Monte Cassino
10:10 - Kids time
11:20 - Lunch time at BOMBAY restaurant SOPOT
12:20 - Crooked house

The apartment we stayed in:
Pitter Apartment Gdansk - http://www.booking.com/Share-DVoWQS

Sopot formerly German: Zoppot, is a seaside resort city in Pomerelia on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a population of approximately 40,000. It is located in Pomeranian Voivodeship, and has the status of the county, being the smallest city in Poland to do so. It lies between the larger cities of Gdańsk to the southeast and Gdynia to the northwest. The three cities together make up the metropolitan area of Tricity.

Sopot is a major health-spa and tourist resort destination. It has the longest wooden pier in Europe, at 515.5 metres, stretching out into the Bay of Gdańsk. The city is also famous for its Sopot International Song Festival, the largest such event in Europe after the Eurovision Song Contest. Among its other attractions is a fountain of bromide spring water, known as the "inhalation mushroom".

The name is thought to derive from an Old Slavic word sopot meaning "stream"[1] or "spring".[2] The same root occurs in a number of other Old Slavic toponyms; it is probably onomatopeic, imitating the sound of running water — murmur (Šepot).

The name is first recorded as Sopoth in 1283 and Sopot in 1291. The German Zoppot is directly derived from the original name. In the 19th century and in the interwar years the German name was re-Polonized as Sopoty (a plural form, closer to the German pronunciation).[1] "Sopot" was made the official Polish name when the town came again under Polish rule in 1945.

The area of today's Sopot contains the site of a 7th-century Slavonic (Pomeranian) stronghold. Initially it was a commercial trade outpost for commerce extending both up the Vistula river and to cities north across the Baltic Sea. With time the significance of the stronghold diminished and by the 10th century it was reduced to a fishing village, eventually abandoned. However, a century later the area was settled again and two villages were founded within the borders of today's' city: Stawowie and Gręzowo. They were first mentioned in 1186 as being granted to the Cistercian abbey in Oliwa. Another of the villages that constitute today's Sopot, Świemirowo, was first mentioned in 1212 in a document by Mestwin I, who granted it to the Premonstratensian (Norbertine) monastery in nearby Żukowo.

The village of Sopot, which later became the namesake for the whole city, was first mentioned in 1283 when it was granted to the Cistercians. At that time it was part of Poland until the 14th-century Teutonic invasion. By 1316, the abbey had bought all villages in the area and became the owners of all the area of the city. After the Second Peace of Thorn (1466) the area was reincorporated into the Kingdom of Poland.