Southern Poland is exceptionally wealthy in tourist attractions. Wroclaw and Krakow agglomerations offer huge number of monuments and interesting activities. First, discover Wroclaw, often called Polish silicon valley and track down the main Old Town highlights with friendly and cute dwarves. Then, see UNESCO World Heritage Site Auschwitz-Birkenau museum and learn the lesson from the darkest page in human history. Finally, discover Krakow's Old Town (also at UNESCO list) and enjoy climatic centre with Medieval buildings, restaurants, cafes and shops. South of Poland has attractions for everyone, just check them on your own!
5 days / 4 nights
BB (breakfast), HB on request (breakfast, dinner)
All year
2 cities / 2 towns
10-50
Calm
Up to 30 days*
Arrival. Check in at your hotel/hostel. Meeting with a guide and 2 h Wroclaw's Old Town sightseeing along the Dwarves Route (optional ordinary sightseeing instead). After sightseeing, free time in the city centre or optional cruise on board of steamboat (50 min).
Wrocław is the most interesting and most beautiful city in Lower Silesia. You will start the tour from the Wroclaw Main Market Square. It is one of the largest markets in Europe. It has an area of 3.8 hectares. There are many colorful tenements from different eras, many restaurants, souvenir shops, bookstores .. It is a place that attracts tourists as well as Wrocław residents. The 13th century Main Market Square features the Old Town Hall. Inside is the Museum of Bourgeois Art - a branch of the City Museum and the...
One of the most original Wrocław’s attractions are Dwarves. They started to show up at Wrocław’s streets in 2005 when a sculptor Tomasz Maczek designed first five figurines. Nowadays dwarves are designed by artists from all parts of Poland. Right now there are over 300 dwarves and their numbers are constantly growing. Dwarves become even Wrocław’s iconic symbols. Tourists and Wrocław’s inhabitants take part in special Dwarves trips. Once a year in September these small creatures have their own official holiday. Peopl...
The Town Hall in Wrocław is a famous monument in the Gothic style. It is a historical building that has survived to our times since the 13th century. For hundreds of years, it served as the seat of city authorities and the judiciary of Wrocław. Today, the town hall houses a branch of the Wrocław City Museum - the Museum of Town Art. Permanent exhibitions that can be seen in the town hall are: the Gallery of Famous Wrocławians, Masterpieces of Wrocław Goldsmithing and the History of the Old Town Hall in Wrocław. Tempo...
Ostrów Tumski is the oldest, historic part of Wrocław. It was created in the area of crossings on the Odra River, between the estuaries of the rivers - Oława in the south, Ślęza and Widawa in the north. One of the most beautiful monuments of Ostrów Tumski is the Gothic cathedral of St. John the Baptist and the Church of the Holy Cross. A popular meeting place and tourist attraction is the Tumski Bridge between Wyspa Piaskowa and Ostrów, also known as the Lovers' Bridge. The lovers hang padlocks on it as a sign of the...
The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Wrocław, located in the Ostrów Tumski district, is a Gothic church with Neo-Gothic additions. It is the most important temple in Wrocław, the church of the Wrocław Archbishop. A beautiful gothic building, built in the 13th / 14th century as the fifth church in this place (the first Wrocław cathedral was founded by Bolesław Chrobry in 1000), rebuilt after the destruction in 1945. Inside the cathedral there are valuable monuments of sculpture and painting: the triptych of the D...
In Wrocław tourists are welcome to take part in passenger steamboat cruises. There are a few possible routes to enjoy on a voyage. Visitors can see places such as The Sand Island, National Museum, Peace Bridge, Grunwaldzki Bridge, Zoo Harbour and many more.
Breakfast. Panorama Racławicka sightseeing. Free time in the afternoon or Aula Leopoldina sightseeing.
Racławice Panorama is 140m-long canvas that depicts the legendary General Tadeusz Kościuszko's victory over the Russian forces at Racławice in 1794, and took just over nine months to complete. Painters Jan Styka and Wojciech Kossak wanted to create a monument to Polish national spirit. Their work, displayed in a rotunda built especially for it, is a popular - and financial – success. Today school groups and hordes of others file in daily for a 30-minute taped lecture on the painting and its history. Headsets with com...
Leopoldina Lecture Hall is a part of Wrocław University and it is the biggest and the most representational part of the main campus. It is often called a Baroque pearl as it is a very spectacular, secular monument of architecture created at the end of this period. The lecture hall as the whole building was erected in years 1728-1732 and was named after founder of the whole university Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I. The lecture hall itself as the most representative part of the building has stucco decorations, frescos...
Breakfast. Transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. Standard 3.5-4 h sightseeing. Transfer to Kraków. Check in at your hotel/hostel in Kraków.
It is a memorial and museum of Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau which is situated in Oświęcim and Brzezinka about 65 km from Cracow. A visit in this place is definitely not an easy one. After a visit in this former Nazi German concentration camp you will definitely perceive the world in a different way. For many people it is highly depressing place and they are even unable to finish sightseeing of it. Still, it is important to know the history and take care that it never happens again. It is possible to vis...
Breakfast. Meeting with your guide at your hotel/hostel. 4 h sightseeing with entrance to St. Mary's Basilica, Wawel Cathedral and one of Wawel Castle sightseeing routs. Afternoon for your own disposal.
St. Mary’s Basilica in Kraków is one of the biggest and after Wawel Cathedral the most important church in Kraków. St. Mary’s Basilica is a Gothic church built in the 14th and 15th centuries. Since the end of the 15th century it has had a famous late Gothic sculpture masterpiece the Great Altar by Wit Stwosz. Tourists not only admire a grand scale of this building and the altar piece but also its rich ornaments, polychrome decorations and stained glass windows. The basilica is located in the north-east corner of the ...
It is the best well known royal necropolis and real national pantheon. Close to the kings in the cathedral many noble people were buried, such as Cracow bishops, and Polish national heroes. Here you will find among other the tumbs of Kuyavia Ladislas the Short (Władysław Łokietek), Kazmir the Great (Kazimierz Wielki) and John III Sobieski (Jan III Sobieski).
It is the old residence of Polish kings situated in the heart of Cracow at Wawel Hill which is a Jurassic limestone rock rising at the left bank of the Vistula (Wisła) river. During the first Polish kings reigns from Piast dynasty Wawel was one of the first royal abodes. In 14th century when Kuyavia Ladislas the Short (Władysław Łokietek) was crowned and moved to Wawel, this is how the new royal headquarters was established. The golden age of Wawel castle was during the Jagiellon rule, especially during rains of such...
Breakfast. Check out from your hotel/hostel. Departure.
Optional tour to Wieliczka Salt Mine (UNESCO World Heritage List) and than departure.
Wieliczka salt mine (13 km from Cracow) is an extender underground city and certainly one of the most interesting touristic objects In Poland. In 1987 it was put down to UNESCO World Heritage List. Every year the mine is visited by over a million tourists from all over the world. The main is no longer producing salt and since 1996 it has been only a touristic attraction. The mine has 9 levels, the deepest is at the depth of 327 m. One of the best well known chambers in Wieliczka is St. Kinga’s Chapel.
Local and museum guides, optional driver
Panorama Racławicka, Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, St. Mary's Basilica, Wawel Cathedral, 1 Wawel Castle exhibition
Coach, optional steamboat
Hotel/hostel for sightseeing trips
Hotel/hostel for sightseeing trips
English, German, Norwegian, French, Spanish, Italian and others on request
Round tour
It is about 45 min to 1 h. When we count entering procedures.
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