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Jurata Travel Guide
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Europe : Central Europe : Poland : Jurata
Jurata [1] is village and a resort on Baltic Sea in Pomorskie Voivodship in Poland.
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Get in
- by plane - the international Lech Walesa airport at Gdansk or the international Szczecin-Goleniow airport
- by car - from Gdansk or Szczecin by the route E28 to Reda and than just north to Wladyslawowo by the 216. From Wladyslawowo east along the Hel Peninsula.
- by train - (PKP)
- by bus - (PKS)
Get around
The resort is quite small and has a very specific pine forest character. You can easily walk across the whole village on foot or rent a bicycle. Prior to 1928 it was a fishing village. Jurata is also the name of a Slavic pagan godess of the Baltic Sea. The village was named after her.
See
Do
Buy
Eat
Drink
Sleep
Get out
Gdansk Bay:
- Pommeranian metropol Gdansk with a beautiful old town and the biggest gothic brick church worldwide
- sea resort Sopot with the longest European mole
- sea resort and port Gdynia with the biggest Baltic port
- sea resort Puck
Vistuala Bay:
- medieval town of Elblag
- sea resort and medieval town of Frombork with the grave of Nicolaus Copernicus
- sea resort Kadyny with one of the best European studs
Kashubian Coast:
- Slowinski Nationalpark with the biggest dunes in Europe
- sea resort Rowy
- sea resort Leba
- sea resort Jastrzebia Gora
- sea resort Rozewie
- sea resort Wladyslawowo
On the Hel Peninsula:
On the Vistuale Peninsula:
- sea resort Krynica Morska