One of the Gs in "My Polish Alphabet" is for Gdańsk. The city situated by the Baltic Bay, in the north of Poland, is over 1000 years old. Its prettiest part is the old town, I think.
The old town was totally destroyed during WW2. It was rebuilt in the 1950s and 60s.
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| Golden Gate (1612/14) |
Long Street and the old town hall in the background
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| Long Street |
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| Hedwiga in the attic window |
Every day at 1: 03 PM, a figure of a young lady appears in that attic window on Long Street. It is Hedwiga, a heroine of an old romance described in a novel in 1891. As a young girl, she had been rescued from Turkish captivity and now is to be married by her guardian Johann. However, Hedwiga is in love with somebody else. She is waiting for her sweetheart, Lieutenant Kazimierz.
Neptune's Fountain (1605/16) in front of Uphagen's House.
The two lions holding a shield (see one of the photos below) are the Gdańsk coat of arms.
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"My Polish Alphabet" is about things, places, and people that come to my mind when I think about Poland.
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