Sopot

Sopot is a seaside resort city in Eastern Pomerania on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea in northern Poland, with a populace of about 40,000. Sopot is a city with powiat status, in Pomeranian Voivodeship. Until 1999 Sopot turned into a part of the Gdansk Voivodeship. It lies between the bigger cities of Gdansk to the southeast and Gdynia to the northwest. The 3 cities collectively make up the metropolitan place of Tri-City. Sopot is a major fitness-spa and traveler hotel destination. It has the longest wooden pier in Europe, at 515.5 metres, stretching out into the Bay of Gdansk.

The town is likewise famous for its Sopot International Song Festival, the most important such occasion in Europe after the Eurovision Song Contest. Among its different sights is a fountain of bromide spring water, called the "inhalation mushroom". The call is notion to derive from an old Slavic word sopot meaning "circulation" or "spring". The equal root occurs in some of different Slavic toponyms; it is probably onomatopeic, imitating the sound of running water - murmur.