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The biggest and best-known spa on the Polish coast. With its dozen or so brine springs, it is especially popular with people who suffer from respiratory, circulatory, and rheumatic diseases, metabolic disorders, and diabetes. Its innumerable health centres receive patients all year long, the sea air having particularly curative properties during autumn and winter storms. For this reason, unlike most other sea resorts, Kolobrzeg is full of activity at any time of the year, offering its guests all kinds of entertainment. The most appealing part of the city is the seafront. Here you will find a commercial and passenger port that also harbours grey warships. One of them, the Fala, has been turned into a floating museum. From the port, you can also take a sea cruise, arguably the most attractive on the Polish coast. The colourful pleasure boats are modelled on Viking longships, Christopher Columbus' caravels, and pirate ships. Another attraction is a catamaran to the Danish island of Bornholm. Next to the port there is a wide expanse of sandy beaches with a lighthouse, pier, and promenade. Nearby new houses imitating those in the Old City help to transform this area into a new centre with lively bars, small restaurants and shops. It's a lush neighbourhood with vast parks along the beach and more to the east, ancient oaks and a beechwood enveloping a big amphitheatre - a venue for various summer events and concerts. The parks are a good place to take a rest.