Poland from Cracow - (6 days)
Most of us love travelling and hate packing and unpacking luggage every day in different places. So here is the offer for people like us. One hotel, one place for 6 days and you can still visit many places by car, by train and walking
 Places included:
Cracow, Warsaw, Wieliczka Salt Mine, Eagles' Nests Route, Dunajec River Gorges, Debno, Zakopane, Wadowice, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, Auschwitz-Birkenau
Details
1st Day - Cracow
09:00-13:00 visit of Cracow- the former capital of Poland and Unesco World Heritage Monument.
The tour begins with the Wawel Castle- the Royal Residence with famous collection of Flemish tapestries, Italian paintings and the Cathedral where Polish king were crowned and buried- a mixture af various styles including one of the best examples of the Italian Renaissant style -the King Sigismundus' Chapel.
Visit continued by a walk along the Royal Way with stops at churches of St. Andrew, St. Peter and Paul; the Jagiellonian University with the Collegium Maius -Copernicus' college; the Main Market Square- the largest square of medieval Europe with the Sukiennice (the Cloth Hall) building and the Dormition of Virgin Mary Basilica holding a treasure of the North European late gothic-the Veit Stoss Altar.
13:00-14:30 lunch in a restaurant
14:30-17:30 Visit of Cracow continued- the Czartoryski Museum with famous paintings of Leonardo da Vinci (the Lady with Ermine) and Rembrandt (Landscape with the Good Samaritan); the Barbican with St. Florian Gate-remains of medieval city walls and visit to the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz – a famous Jewish cultural centre for the Central and Eastern Europe-sinagogues -Old Sinagogue, Isaac's Synagogue, Remuh Synagogue , former market square, mykvas, cementaries.
17:30-19:30 free time
19:30 dinner at a restaurant with folk music concert
2nd Day - Castles of the Eagle's Nest Route-Czestochowa
09:00 departure for the 'Eagles Nest Route' - a system of medieval castles that once protected main trade road of Polish Kingdom from south to north. Now very impressive ruins standing on high limestone rocks like 'nests of eagles'.
10:00-11:00-visit of the Pieskowa Skala -the only preserved castle on the 'Eagles' Nests Road' with the Museum of Historical Interiors and interesting collection of Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque art
10:30-departure for Ogrodzieniec
11:30-12:30-visit of the massive ruins of the Ogrodzieniec Castle, the second biggest castle of Southern Poland after the Wawel of Cracow
12:30-13:30-lunch in Ogrodzieniec
13:30-departure for Czestochowa
14:30-16:00-visit of the 'Spritual Capital of Poland' - the shrine of Jasna Góra (Czestochowa) famous for 600-hundred year presence of the Black Madonna Image.
16:00-departure for Cracow
20:00-dinner in the hotel
3rd Day Warsaw
07:00-10:00 trip by train to Warsaw.
10:00-13:00 Visit of Warsaw-the capital of Poland
The tour starts with the visit of the Old City with its charming Market Square, the Barbican the St. John Cathedral and the Royal Castle with a collection of Italian and Dutch paintings.
13:00-14:30 lunch in a restaurant
14:30-18:00 Continuation of the visit: The Royal Way: Krakowskie Przedmiescie and Nowy Swait streets; Tha Palace of the President of Poland, with the church of the Holy Cross preserving heart of Frederic Chopin. Walk in Lazienki Park with a summer residence of the last Polish king, Stanislaw August Poniatowski. Visit of the former Ghetto area with the commemorative monument
18:00-21:00 return to Cracow by train
4th Day Auschwitz-Wadowice-Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
08:30-departure for Auschwitz-Birkenau
10:00-13:00-visit of the extermination camps Auschwitz-Birkenau. Special tour of places where 1,5 mln people mainly Jews from all Europe lost heir lives. Place of martyr of St Maximilian (Auschwitz) and St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Birkenau). The tour include place where Fr Maximilian died.
13:00-departure for Wadowice
13:30-14:30 lunch in Wadowice - in the 19th century 'dwór'-manor house .
14:30-15:30 visit of Wadowice -the hometown of John Paul II - a house where he was born, the Minor Basilica of Our Lady where he was baptized.
15:30-transfer to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska
16:00-17:30- tour continues to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska - a complex of 43churches and chapels built as a 'model of Jerusalem'. Francescan convent, pictoresque pathways with chapels built on hills and valleys with a forest around is pat of the UNESCO World Heritage. During the Holy Week thousands of pilgrims are contemplating last days of Christ. The Stations of the Cross are followed by 100000 people on Good Friday; no less people particpating for the Assumption of Virgin Mary procession. Place very close to John Paul II's heart
17:00-departure for Cracow
20:00-dinner in the hotel
5th Day Pieniny National Park-Zakopane
08:00- departure towards mountains along pictoresque road to Zakopane
10:00-12:00-embarkment on rafts guided by highlanders and trip on river Dunajec Gorges within the Pieniny National Park to Szczawnica. Pieniny are small but one of the beautiful among Polish mountains. White rocks take beautiful shapes like Trzy Korony ( the Three Crowns Mountain) or Sokolica (the Falcon's Nest). The park is a shelter for many protected plans and animals like black stork or royal eagle.
12:30-13:30-lunch in Szczawnica
13:30-14:30-tour continued to Debno a village with the 15th century wooden church built without nails! Internal decoration with medieval polychromies and sculptures made this church one of the most precious monuments of Polish wooden architecture being includend on the UNESCO list.
14:30-17:00-visit of Zakopane, winter capital of Poland. Panoramic visit of the town with traditional architecture
17:00-return to Cracow
20:00-dinner in the hotel
6th Day – Wieliczka
09:00-departure for Wieliczka
10:00-12:00-visit of the salt mine in Wieliczka – one of the UNESCO World Heritage Monuments. Tour of a real underground city with miles of corridors and hundreds of chambers-the most bautiful included in the tour with underground lakes, chapels adorned with real works of art made by hands of miners
12:30 -lunch in: a typical restaurant in Wieliczka, return to Cracow, free time
20:00 farewell dinner in the resturant with the regional folk show
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