| A port, seaside resort, tourist centre on the Baltic Sea coast of Poland, approx 120 km from Gdansk and Gdynia. An ancient Slavic fishing settlement. Town charter in 1290. From 1361 it belonged to the Hansa. A Pomeranian Dukes castle from the end of the 14th century. Town walls with a 14th century defensive gate. In the 14th century Gothic Marian church the sarcophagus of duke Erik (d. 1459), great grandson of Polish King Kazimierz the Great. The Church of St. George (15th-16th century), late Gothic chapel of St. Gertrude. Seaside resort of the district of Darlowko.
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