This is a companion map to my story, “The House of Korona.” It shows all the locations mentioned in the story, including the Kingdom. The full map shows the Commonwealth of Poland and Lithuania. The inset shows a more detailed view of Gdansk Bay and the Kingdom. The date of the map is 1739.

Gdynia, Poland, is one of my candidates for a potential real-world location for the Kingdom of Corona. The Orlowo Cliffs are nearby.

The designers of “Tangled” used Eastern European “onion domes” on the Corona castle, which are echoed in the architecture of the town hall in Gdansk, the capital of Polish Pomerelia - one potential setting for a real-world Corona.

This picture of the Grosse Mühle in Gdansk, Poland, shows the timbered “fachwerk” architecture present in the Corona island village as well as the onion domes (background) that were used as architectural elements in the Corona castle.  

Gdynia, Poland, is the only place on the Baltic coast where hills of any size come right down to the sea, making it the best fit, landscape-wise, for a real-world Kingdom of Corona.

A valley in the highlands west of Gdynia, Poland. I can see a tower here. (How long it would stay hidden? Well….)

The hills west of Gdynia, Poland.

A valley in the hills west of Gdynia, Poland.

The hills west of Gdynia, Poland.

This basic map of Gdynia shows the hills rising behind the harbor.