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Elblag Vacation Guide

The Old City (Polish: Stare Miasto) is located on the Elbląg River connecting Lake Drużno to the Vistula Lagoon, about 10 km from the lagoon and 80 km from Gdańsk. Until World War II there were many Gothic, renaissance and baroque houses in Elbląg's Old Town; some of them are reconstructed. Other preserved buildings are:
-St. Nicholas Cathedral - a monumental 13th century Gothic church (cathedral only from 1992, before it was a parochial church), damaged by fire in the late 18th century, then destroyed in World War II and reconstructed
-city gate (Brama Targowa) - erected in 1319
-St. Mary's Church - former Dominican church, erected in the 13th century, rebuilt in the 14th and 16th centuries; damaged in World War II and reconstructed in 1961 as an art gallery; remnants of cloister are partially preserved
-Holy Ghost church with hospital, from the 14th century
Corpus Christi church from the 14th century.