Zaspa
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Gdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...
, Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. Divided into two quarters:
- Zaspa-MłyniecZaspa-MlyniecZaspa-Młyniec is one of the quarters of the city of Gdańsk, Poland.*inhabitants: 16,471*area: 1.3*population density 13,144Mainly high buildings. SKM stop called Gdańsk-Zaspa.-External links:*...
- Zaspa-RozstajeZaspa-RozstajeZaspa-Rozstaje is one of the quarters of the city of Gdańsk, Poland.inhabitants: 15,118area: 1.9population density 7,833Mainly high buildings.-External links:*...
Zaspa was founded on a place previously occupied by an airport. The concrete airstrip of the airport was not dismantled, and now forms the axis of the quarter.
Zaspa buildings are mainly high-rise condominiums (between 4 and 12 stories high) erected in the early 1980s. Additional thermal insulation in the form of styrofoam sheets was applied to them in the early 2000s. Painted on outside in pastel colors, they managed to change slightly the ugly, steel-and-concrete image of the quarter.
Zaspa was the place where Lech Wałęsa
Lech Wałęsa
Lech Wałęsa is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist. A charismatic leader, he co-founded Solidarity , the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland between 1990 and 95.Wałęsa was an electrician...
lived during Solidarity times. On 12 June 1987, during his 3rd visit to Poland, pope John Paul II visited Zaspa.
Inhabitants: 31,589
Area: 3.2 km²