Hotels near Golden Gate and Uphagen House

The Golden Gate (Zlota Brama) from 1614 is the ceremonial western entrance to the Long Street. Designed by Abraham van den Blocke in a Mannerist style, its four allegorical statues of Peace, Freedom, Wealth, and Fame quote the civic virtues that the merchant city wanted to project. Pass beneath it and you are on Dluga Street, the same processional route Polish kings used when they visited the city.

A short walk east at Dluga 12 is the Uphagen House, an 18th-century merchant's townhouse and one of the very few historic Gdansk interiors to have been reconstructed room by room with its original furniture. Johann Uphagen was a wealthy councillor who left detailed inventories, which allowed conservators to recreate a full sequence of rooms: the entrance hall with its checkerboard marble floor, the Chinese Salon with hand-painted silk wallpaper, the music room, and a working 18th-century kitchen with its original spit and copper cookware. Ticket entry is 20 PLN and includes a good English pamphlet.

Pro Tip: Combine Uphagen House with the Main Town Hall Museum tower next door on a single ticket via the Gdansk History Museum website - it saves you about 15 PLN and lets you walk the same route the burghers walked to the town hall for council meetings.