Jurata
Jurata is village and a resort on Baltic Sea in Pomorskie Voivodship in Poland.
Get in
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By plane
[edit]By car
[edit]- From Gdansk or Szczecin by the route E28 to Reda and then just north to Wladyslawowo by the 216. From Wladyslawowo east along the Hel Peninsula.
By train
[edit]- 1 Jurata railway station.
By bus
[edit]Get around
[edit]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 goddess of the Baltic Sea. The village was named after her.
See
[edit]Do
[edit]As a primarily beach village, visitors will spend most of their time sun-bathing and swimming. While the water is of excellent quality, it is cold at times, and visitors should watch for small jellyfish. Jurata also has excellent wind-surfing opportunities - renting, lessons, etc.
Buy
[edit]Eat
[edit]Jurata is known for its amazing seafood - all varieties, in all forms. Visitors can also sample traditional Polish crepes and cabbage rolls, while more Western food is available as well.
Drink
[edit]Sleep
[edit]Primarily nice, clean, and quaint small villas and apartment-style rooms, though Western resorts are gradually being built.
Go next
[edit]Gdańsk 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
Vistula 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 Vistula Peninsula:
- sea resort Krynica Morska