8 Kolobrzeska, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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 (Polish: Katedra Św Jana Chrzciciela 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 ...
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.
The Auschwitz concentration camp (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 camps and sub-camps, built and controlled by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was established by Nazi Germany in mid-1940 in the suburbs of Oświęcim, which was then on the territory incorporated into the Third Reich. At the peak of the operation of the extermination camp in Auschwitz (1944), it was divided into Auschwitz I (established in 1940, in the buildings of pre-war barracks), Auschwitz II-Birkenau (...
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 is one of the most famous monuments in Krakow and Poland. It is one of the largest and most important, after the Wawel Cathedral, church in Krakow. It is located at the north-eastern corner of the Main Square, on St. Mary's Square. Dating from the end of the 14th century, the basilica is preserved in the Gothic style. In the 15th century, chapels were added to the aisles. The greatest gem of this monument in Krakow is the altar of Veit Stoss from the end of the 15th century. It is the largest Goth...
The Wawel Cathedral is undoubtedly one of the most important monuments in the country. The full name of the church is the Cathedral Basilica of St. Stanislaus and St. Wenceslas in Krakow. It is here that the most important events in the history of Poland took place. Coronations, royal weddings and funerals. Inside, the central place is occupied by the 17th-century confession, i.e. the canopy altar of St. Stanisław, the bishop and patron of Poland, who died in the 11th century as a result of a conflict with King Boles...
Wawel Royal Castle is one of the top highlights in Kraków. Inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List it is one of the most visited places in Krakow. For centuries, it was the seat of Polish kings and a symbol of statehood. In 1930 the Castle also became one of the most important museums in Poland. The museum collects works of art historically or artistically related to Wawel, with Polish rulers, and great magnate collections.It collects paintings, prints, sculptures, fabrics, goldsmiths, militaria, porcelain and f...
Breakfast. Check out from your hotel/hostel. Departure.
Optional tour to Wieliczka Salt Mine (UNESCO World Heritage List) and than departure.
The salt mine in Wieliczka is undoubtedly one of the greatest tourist attractions in Poland. Every year it is visited by almost two million tourists from all over the world. In 1978 it was entered on the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage List. The Wieliczka salt mine has 9 levels and reaches a depth of 327 meters. The mine can be visited in various ways, you can choose from the classic Tourist Route, the Mining Route, which will allow you to get to know the specificity of work "downstairs" and the pilgrim ro...
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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