755 years of tradition, 7 million visitors from around the world, 1,000 stalls – this is the world famous St. Fair. Dominic in Gdansk! Here you are buying, bargaining, looking for treasures, he listens to music and is beautiful staff for commemorative photographs. It is gwarnie and colorful, almost everywhere something happens, and the images change like a kaleidoscope.
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Year 1260. Pope Alexander IV permits Gdansk Dominicans to grant indulgences studniowych feast day of their founder. On August Fairs arrives to Gdansk port more than 400 ships of all sorts of goods. Among them are French and Spanish wines, silk, jams, spices, tin, English cloth, amber, Czech glass, Toruń gingerbread and Russian fur. Everywhere attracts circus, acrobats, jugglers and actors corpses.
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times present. The ceremonial start trading and fun announce at noon Gdansk bells and … 755 simultaneous blows to the biggest drum in the world (10 meters in diameter, 1.5 meters high, 3 tons weight). From that moment take control of the city merchants, and street fairs Main Town people to colorful characters, among which leads the crimson rooster – a symbol of St. Fair. Dominica.
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impressive number of trade stands (1000) beckons with its diversity. Craftsmen, artists and antique dealers offer courses which we will get nowhere else – the old, interesting, rare, amazing, original, necessary and these quite unnecessary. Because here you can find everything.
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rich variety of tastes – regional pastries, cheeses, meats, produced according to traditional recipes. The smell of stew, pickled cucumber, bread with lard and dumplings, lepionych by Kashubian housewives. For lovers of world cuisines: Italian paste and olive oil, Spanish wines, Lithuanian sausage, cheese Austrian, Hungarian Langos, Turkish sweets. It is home to fill the pantries!
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In the foreground – sailing, floating on the Motlawa. High above them Scenic Circle Gdansk, like the famous London Eye. His passengers rise to a towering height of 55 meters. What a view!
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twilight, but Fair continues. Some people slowly gather around the stage, because the evening at the Fair is a time of numerous concerts. They play and sing the best! This year: beard, Mel Koteluk, RENATA PRZEMYK, Julia Marcell, Bednarek, Fisz Emade material, Pablopavo. Others wander, absorb this special, joyful atmosphere. They gather memories to return here next year.
Gdańsk offers 755 Fair St. installment. Dominic from 25 July to 16 August. HERE YOU WILL FIND THE EVENT PROGRAM. WELCOME!
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