UNESCO Trail – Gdynia Modernist City Centre

UNESCO Trail – Gdynia Modernist City Centre

Distance: approx. 3.5 km

Walking time: approx. 120 mins

UNESCO Trail – sites along the route

Konstytucji Square – a testament to the various stages of the city’s development, with buildings in a variety of architectural styles

1. Gdynia Główna Railway Station

2. Gdynia District Court

3. State Agricultural Bank

Jana z Kolna Street – the former boundary between the city and the port and railway areas

4. City Market Hall Complex

The junction of 3 Maja and Starowiejska Streets – the oldest street in the former village

10 Lutego Street – the main compositional axis of the city centre, running west–east / city–sea

5. Bank Polski

6. Former ZUS (Social Insurance Institution) building – currently Gdynia City Hall / Centre of Modernism in Gdynia

7. Residential House of the Pension Fund of the Employees of the National Development Bank, known as ‘Bankowiec’

8. Postal and Telegraph Office

9. Former National Development Bank

Abrahama Street – a ‘woonerf’ and resident-friendly space

10. Bolesław and Genowefa Orłowski Apartment House

11. Augustyn Krauze Apartment House, known as the ‘Mayor’s House’

12. Reich and Birnbaum Apartment House

Świętojańska Street – the main north–south commercial axis / port–city

13. PAGED Apartment House

14. Franciszka Glasenapp Apartment House

15. Gdynia Modernism InfoBox

Representative District – the city’s gateway to the sea – Kościuszki Square

16. Adam Jurkowski Apartment House

17. Zygmunt Peszkowski Apartment House

18. Stanisław Pręczkowski Apartment House

South Pier – artificial pier

19. Passenger Coastal Sailing Station

20. Polish Sailor’s House – currently the Faculty of Navigation at the Gdynia Maritime University

21. Gdynia Aquarium – former Maritime Station

General Mariusz Zaruski Sailing Basin and City Centre Beach