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| About Sopot |
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| Sopot is a well known Polish SPA and a popular holiday
resort in the Pomerania region of the Baltic coast over the bay of
Gdansk.. Sopot and the neighbouring Gdansk and Gdynia are known as
Trojmiasto. Sopot is a small (40 thousand people) charming and elegant
town with a unique mid-war atmosphere. It is filled with beautiful
small streets, full of trendy cafes, restaurants, exclusive night
and jazz clubs, sport clubs and wonderful clean beaches. |
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| During the Summer Sopot is
buzzing with cultural and sporting events, such as the major tennis
tournament Prokom Open, attracting even the top ATP players, or sailing
and windsurfing regattas. In Winter, Sopot offers a tranquil atmosphere
to people who come to restore their health and recharge their energy/stamina
in one of the many private health centres, gyms and rehabilitation
clinics. |
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In the XIII century, Sopot belonged to powerful Cisterian
Abbey in Oliva. Between 1283 and 1807 the village was owned by the
City of Gdansk, which was part of the Hanseatic League of trading
cities of Northern Europe. From the end of XIX until the end of IIWW,
Sopot was part of the German Reich. In 1945 Sopot was returned to
Poland. |
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| Sopot offers: |
| - Beach Holidays. Sun bathing. White, clean, secure
and life-guarded beaches. The clean and usually calm sea is suitable
for families with children as well as for the young active singles.
The weather in the summer is dry and quite warm ( 25-30¾ Celsius)
with no or little rain. Sopot’s blue sea and sky means that
many tourists return to Sopot every year. |
Places of interest
in Sopot:
The longest wooden pier in Europe (650 metres),
where one can see everybody who is anybody in Polish politics,
culture, sport of business life
Hotel Grand. Old and classy hotel which was
very popular with aristocratic travellers before the war,
which still attracts the crème de la crème of
international tourists
Art galleries, amber and silver jewellers,
Seaside promenade, which stretches from Gdansk
to Gdynia
Boulevard Monte Cassino, which never sleeps
during the Summer months, with its lovely restaurants, cafes,
pubs, clubs that all Poles try to visit at least once a year.
Beautiful and secluded streets, lined with
old villas and mansions among the trees. |
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| - Water sports. Sopot is a mecca for water maniacs. There are dozens
of clubs with modern facilities for windsurfing, kite flying, canoeing,
parachuting, gliding, water scooters, and scuba diving. There are
plenty of equipment rental shops offering yachts, canoes, sailing
dinghies, catamarans and windsurfing boards (a swell as wet suits).
Each water sport club employs professional coaches and instructors
who offer training courses for individuals or groups. The Gdansk Bay
(bay of Gdansk) near Sopot offers one of the best sites for sailing
and windsurfing in Europe. A large part of the bay is shallow (2-4
feet) and sandy, and it is sheltered from the open sea by the Hel
Peninsula and there is always plenty of gentle wind. The Polish Baltic
coast is full of interesting sites dating back to the end of the Second
World War. Some shipwrecks are open to divers, although quite a few
are considered sacred burial sites. |
| - Golf. In the close vicinity of Sopot, in beautiful countryside,
there are three 18-hole golf courses and country clubs, with all the
modern luxuries expected from a top club. The clubs are Tower GC,
Tokary GC and Gdansk Golf and Country Club. Clubs offer a full range
of facilities, courses, instructors and well organized club life. |
| - mountain biking and cycling. There are miles of modern cycling
routes which run along the coast, from Gdansk to Gdynia (30 km) and
inside the nature reserve which surrounds Sopot from the South. There
are many professional bike rental shops, which offer modern bikes
of all sizes and types for adults and well as children. There are
professional instructors and guides who can help those not confident
enough to travel on their own. |
| - skateboarding, roller-blading, roller-skating. The site for these
sports is adjacent to the Sopot beach and is in the lovely park not
far form the luxurious Grand Hotel. The skate-parks were recently
built, are safe and of modern design. |
| - Large and modern aqua park near the Sopot beach, very popular
with families with children. |
| – Nachtclubs und Cassinos |
| - Tennis. Sopot has three tennis clubs, all located in the vicinity
of the beach and the Sopot city centre. The oldest of the clubs were
set up in 1879. Each club has outdoor as well as indoor facilities,
including saunas, rehabilitation centres, professional English Speaking
instructors and coaches. |
| - horse ridding. There is a race course in Sopot and a number of
riding clubs which offer trips on horse back along the coast, training
courses and club events. |
| - gyms and health clubs, all are very well equipped and offer a
full spectrum of exercise whether the aim is to lose weight and redundant
calories or to improve on stamina . Each club offers professional
advice and a full range of services such as massage, sauna, steam
rooms, cryogenic chambers. |
| - medical centres, (private and NHS – I think NHS is a very
specific English term), offering a full spectrum of medical services,
rehabilitation centres and physiotherapeutic services |
| - beauty clinics, hair stylists, manicure & pedicure. |
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