The Baltic Sea is dotted with spectacular corners. One of them is the Hel Peninsula, Northeast Poland, right in front of the port of Gdansk. It is a long 35 km long stretch of sandy land that runs parallel to the coast and is connected to the mainland by the Wladyslawowo Isthmus.
A long thin line which in its narrowest part is barely 100 meters wide. Above it, a forest of firs and black pines that protect the southern beaches from the wind, where there are some small tourist towns that are filled with bathers every summer: Chalupy, Kuznica, Jurata...
Until the seventeenth century the peninsula was a chain of islands that formed an uncertain strip of land that protected the port of Gdansk from wind and waves. The frequent storms that form in this area in autumn and winter were depositing large amounts of sand until they were able to unite all these islands in a continuous band, like the beads of a rosary.
Today there is a road and a railway that runs through the peninsula to its end, the town of Whole, where the main hotels are located. You can also get there by ferry from gydinia. The best beaches are to the south, while those to the north are more inhospitable because of the wind, although perfect to contemplate the coming and going of ships traveling to Germany and Sweden.
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