Westerplatte is a peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland, located on the Baltic Sea coast mouth of the Dead Vistula, in the Gdańsk harbour channel. From 1926 to 1939, it was the location of a Polish Military Transit Depot (WST), sanctioned within the territory of the Free City of Danzig.
Westerplatte Monument in memory of the Polish defenders
Memorials to fallen soldiers.
Barrack ruins at Westerplatte.
Basement of ruined barrack
Gdańsk is a city on the Baltic coast of northern Poland. With a population of 486,492, Gdańsk is the capital and largest city of the Pomeranian Voivodeship. It is Poland's principal seaport and the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area. The city lies at the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay, close to the city of Gdynia and resort town of Sopot; these form a metropolitan area called the Tricity (Trójmiasto), with a metropolitan population of approximately 1.5 million. Gdańsk lies at the mouth of the Motława River, connected to the Leniwka, a branch in the delta of the Vistula River, which connects Gdańsk with Warsaw.
Image: Calle Dlugie Pobrzeze, Gdansk, Polonia, 2013 05 20, DD 06
Image: Corte Artus, Gdansk, Polonia, 2013 05 20, DD 03
Image: Gdansk Kosciol mariacki 5
Image: Gran Armería, Gdansk, Polonia, 2013 05 20, DD 08
