Gdansk - view towards the old centre

The southern shores of the Baltic Sea are called the Amber Coast. It reaches from the baltic states Latvia, Lithunia and Estonia to Poland, Germany and Denmark. Most of the amber in the world comes from here and was tradet even in ancient times to far away places as Greece and Egypt. One of the historical landscapes in the area and the centre of amber production was East Prussia which was split between Poland and Russia after Word War II. Gdansk (the former Danzig) in Poland and Kaliningrad (the former Königsberg) in Russia were and are the centres of this region. Sopot, Svetlogorsk and Zelenogratsk - where other shots of this series were made - have been well known sea baths and are going to become what they have been before.