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A self-guided audio walking tour of Gdańsk's Main Town along the Royal Way, the route Polish kings took into the city, from the Upland Gate to the Motława and back to St Mary's. It starts at the Upland Gate of 1574 to 1576, the Prison Tower and Torture House, made a municipal prison in 1586, and the Great Armoury of 1600 to 1609, then passes through the Golden Gate of 1612 to 1614 onto Long Lane and into the Uphagen House, a burgher's home remodelled between 1775 and 1787. On the Long Market stand the Main Town Hall, the Neptune Fountain, the Artus Court, where the merchant brotherhoods met and feasted, and the Golden House, before the Green Gate, built as a royal residence, opens onto the river. Along the Long Embankment the walk reaches the Crane of 1442 to 1444, a city gate and harbour crane in one, then turns back through St John's Church and the Royal Chapel to St Mary's, with its 82-metre tower, and ends on Mariacka Street at its water gate. Cruise ships berth at Gdynia, about twenty kilometres away, or in Gdańsk's own port; the ship's own excursion or shuttle is the safer choice.
18 narrations, yours to keep — no subscription, no expiry. Works offline once downloaded, and if it isn’t for you we’ll refund it.
Going somewhere with no signal? Put the guide on your home screen first, then download it from that icon while you are on wi-fi — that way you download once, and it works in airplane mode with no roaming charges. Show me the order →
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap · 158 features in this old town (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata · 74 cross-referenced entries (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.
Upland Gate, Prison Tower and Torture House, Great Armoury, Golden Gate, Uphagen House, Long Lane.
Main Town Hall, Long Market, Neptune Fountain, Artus Court, Golden House, Green Gate, Long Embankment, Crane.
St John's Church, Royal Chapel, St Mary's Church, Mariacka Street and Gate.
The triumphal-arch gate of 1612 to 1614 at the head of Long Lane, where the Royal Route begins, attributed to Abraham van den Blocke.
Johann Uphagen's house on Long Lane, remodelled between 1775 and 1787, its reconstructed rooms now the Museum of Burgher Interiors.
The sea god on the Long Market, cast probably in 1614, on a fountain commissioned by Mayor Bartłomiej Schachmann to mark the city's tie to the sea.
The merchants' meeting place and centre of civic social life, with a great hall under a Gothic vault where the brotherhoods held their feasts.
The Żuraw of 1442 to 1444, a city gate and harbour crane in one: four workers in its wooden treadwheels could lift two tonnes from a ship.
The Brick Gothic church whose 82-metre tower dominates the Main Town, an Evangelical church from the 16th century until 1945.
Tap "Start Walking Tour" and allow location access. The map shows all 18 narration points.
Follow the suggested route or explore freely. GPS tracks your position. Reach a site and the narration plays automatically.
Each site has its own narration. 18 narration points.
Narrations play when you reach each site. No buttons, no track numbers. Walk naturally — the stories find you.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm and knowledgeable, not a textbook reading.
Every narration is drafted, cross-checked against primary sources, then passed through a second editorial pass that strips unsupported claims. Dates, names, and citations verified.
See all narration points on the map. Tap any point to hear it early or replay it later.
Every narrated point in Gdańsk — the Royal Way and the Main Town, each with its own narration.
Spend an hour or a full day. Skip sites, revisit favourites, take breaks. The tour adapts to you.
18 narration points, including Upland Gate, Golden Gate, Uphagen House, Long Lane and Main Town Hall. That is about 31 minutes of narration in all, and you walk between the stops at your own pace.
Yes. It plays in your phone’s browser as you walk: no guide, no group, no app to install and no fixed start time.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can stand anywhere — even at home before you travel — and play any narration. GPS just makes it hands-free while you’re actually walking the site.
No. Use the “Download for offline” button before you go, and the entire tour — audio, maps, narration text — works without any data connection. Tap-to-play and the map both work fully offline. GPS itself doesn’t need data; only the download does.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Two backstops. First, the map shows every site — just tap the marker for the place in front of you. Second, you can manually queue any narration even when GPS is off. The platform never assumes GPS works; it’s the convenience layer, not the gate.
The audio runs ~1–2 hours total, but you walk at your own pace. 18 narration points across the site. Most visitors take 2–4 hours; some spread it over multiple visits. Once you buy it, it’s yours — there’s no expiry and no subscription. Come back next year if you like; the link in your receipt always works.
One purchase covers one device session. Most couples share earbuds and use a single phone — the audio is paced for that. If you want everyone listening on their own device, each person needs their own purchase. We do not gate sharing aggressively; we trust visitors to do the right thing.
Full refund if you never trigger a single narration on-site. Partial refund based on how far you got. See the refund policy for specifics.