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Best of Poland

Day 1 | Arrival in Warsaw (-/-/D) castle of Wawel, proudly perched on a rock above including the Ostrow Tumski cathedral, St. Stanislas
Welcome by your tour escort. Depending on the arri- the Vistula. Visit the royal castle with its remarkable and St. Madeleine church and the old market square
val time, the transfer to the hotel will be preceded by Flemish tapestries. Discover the kings' and poets' dominated by the majestic town hall. Dinner and
an orientation tour of the city. Dinner and overnight tombs in the cathedral, an admirable building ser- overnight in Poznań.
in Warsaw. ving as a pantheon. Continue to the lower city with
its huge market square, elegant buildings and the Day 7 | Nieborow – Żelazowa Wola – Warsaw
Day 2 | Warsaw (B/-/D) famous Cloth Hall. Walk through the paved streets (B/-/D)
Guided tour of Poland’s capital. Stare Miasto, the past the Renaissance palace and the buildings of Depart for Nieborow and its sumptuous palace, a
old town, entirely rebuilt after the Second World War, the university. Continue to the Jewish quarter, Kazi- magnificent aristocratic residence surrounded by be-
is listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site today. Its mierz, admirably well-preserved. It was here, where autiful gardens. Built in the 17th century, its Polish ar-
narrow streets are bordered by old houses and sur- several scenes from the movie “Schindler’s List” were chitecture was inspired by the Italian Baroque style.
rounded by the remains of the city walls with ditches realised. Visit the Remuh synagogue. Leisure time Continue to Żelazowa Wola, the village where Frede-
and barbicans. Entry to the Royal Castle, Residence in the late afternoon. Dinner and accommodation in ric Chopin was born. Visit the little family house con-
of the kings of Poland and the seat of the Diet (Polish Krakow. Optional: Traditional “Klezmer” evening with verted into a museum. Continue to Warsaw. Check-in
parliament) is included. The visit ends with a walk dinner of Jewish specialities and live music. at your hotel in Warsaw. Dinner and accommodation.
through Łazienki park, the green heart of the city,
with its romantic palaces, including the charming Day 5 | Auschwitz – Wroclaw (B/-/D) Day 8 | Warsaw (B/-/-)
“Water Palace”. Dinner and overnight in Warsaw. Op- Depart for Auschwitz. Guided tour of the concentra- Transfer to Warsaw airport
tional: Evening concert of Chopin Music in one of the tion camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place of com-
palaces of Łazienki park. memoration and reflection on the Nazi atrocities.
Afternoon continue to Wroclaw for a guided tour of
Day 3 | Częstochowa – Krakow (B/-/D) the “Polish Venice” with its bridges, walkways span-
Depart for Częstochowa, one of the main pla- ning the Oder and its canals. The old town is famous
ces of pilgrimage in the Christian world. Lunch in for its Gothic town hall, the “Ratusz”, situated in the
Częstochowa. Visit the basilica of the Pauline Mo- middle of the large square and the cathedral, a mas-
nastery on the hill of Jasna Gora, sheltering the Ma- terpiece of Gothic art. Discover the university, home
donna with child, known as the “Black Virgin”. It is as- to several winners of the Nobel prize. Dinner and
sumed that she was painted by St. Luc and brought overnight in Wroclaw.
to Częstochowa in the 14th century. Continue to
Krakow and arrive in the late afternoon. Dinner and
overnight in in Krakow. Optional: traditional dinner Day 6 | Wroclaw – Poznań (B/-/D)
with folklore dancers and musicians. Today, visit the panorama of Raclawice in Wroclaw,
a gigantic painting (15 m x 114 m), made on the
Day 4 | Krakow (B/-/D) occasion of the 100th anniversary of the victory
Guided visit of Poland’s ancient capital, one of the against the Russians at Raclawice. Continue to
country’s most beautiful cities, dominated by the Poznań for a guided visit of the historical center,
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