Heritage provides clues to our past and how the society has evolved. It helps us examine  history and traditions and enables us develop an awareness about ourselves.

• to learn about Polish heritage - visiting Sopot and Gdańsk,
• discover different architecture,
• to work on tolerance  - Viviting Second World War,
• work on creative photos,

Visiting Sopot

Sopot is the smallest town of the Tricity metropolis, situated just between Gdansk and Gdynia. Its population of only 40,000 is modest in comparison with the 2 million tourists who visit it every summer. Many of them are lured by Sopot International Song Festival, the largest event of its type in Europe after the Eurovision, and which takes place at the Forest Opera house every August. It was popularised by a former doctor of the Napoleonic Army, Jean Haffner. The 19th century saw a rapid growth of the spa facilities, such as a public baths, sanatorium and park, continuing even after Haffner’s death.

Visiting Gdańsk

With a tradition spanning over 1,000 years, Poland’s maritime capital and one of the largest ports on the Baltic Sea is today a unique metropolis that has always been characterised by a spirit of freedom and courage.

In the aptly named Solidarity Square, three solemn 42-metre-high crosses tower overhead with anchors attached to them. This striking Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Workers of 1970 stands right next to the European Solidarity Centre, an interactive museum recounting the Polish people’s aspirations to freedom. Theirs is a fascinating story about the long, hard fight against the communist regime, about the many sacrifices made by nations imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain and above all, about hope. Ultimately, it’s a story about their greatest victory; one that forever changed the history of Poland and, in fact, the whole world.  

Right next door in the Gdańsk Shipyard, was where, in August 1980, the famous strike began that “set Poland on fire” and forced the communist authorities to make numerous concessions, including the legalisation of the Solidarity Trade Union. Gdańsk’s residents have always been courageous, have always valued their independence and, justifiably, have remained fiercely proud of their city. 

One of the more recent additions to Gdańsk’s already broad educational and tourist offering is the unmistakably modern Museum of the Second World War, home to one of the biggest exhibitions on Earth related to that world-changing conflict.

Situated some 14 metres underground its enormous slanted entrance, the main exhibition shows the horrors of war from many different nations’ viewpoints, as well as telling the story of the heroes of Westerplatte and the Polish Post in Gdańsk, who were the first to offer heroic resistance to the Nazi invaders. 

Students at the families