Tour of Poland UNESCO Heritage List

9 nights/10 days- Costs: 5700 PLN ZLOTY based on 2 pax

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The costs given above are aproximated. All depends on the dates of your travel/hotels/number of travellers and the exchange rates.

If you wish to travel in 2011 we are happy to e-mail you the total costs now.

This tour can start in Krakow or Warsaw - so feel free to contact us directly for the adjusted itinerary and our final offer.

UNESCO World Heritage List Tour (day 1) - Krakow

Arriving to Krakow airport/Krakow railway station.

Private transfer to 3*hotel (central located) in Krakow. Accommodation in a twin/double room on B&B basis for 3 nights.

Krakow is the most important city in polish history and is located in South Poland. It is also the capital of the ‘Malopolska’ region that compromises of the Tatra Mountain range.

Krakow was Poland’s ancient royal capital, and has been a home for many famous local and international writers, artists and thinkers. UNESCO lists it as one of the world’s twelve most significant historic sites!

Here you can visit the most striking royal residences in Europe such as ’Wawel Castle’ or the medieval ‘Sukiennice’, being a vast cloth hall which is a great place for shopping if you are after amber jewellery or thick hand-woven woollen sweaters. The Old Town with its many squares, gothic, renaissance and baroque style buildings offer many hours of sightseeing, shopping or simply an array of places where to have some food or drinks.

Day 2 Krakow

A private sightseeing tour with our local guide.( 3 hrs).

The walking tour includes- the Old Town with the Main Square: Town Hall-Sukiennice, Mariacki Church, Colegium Maius, The city gates and the medieval walls, the Barbacan and the Jewish District-Kazimierz.

Time free for leisure.

Day 3 Auschwitz-Birkenau World War 2 Concentration Camps

Private transfer to former concentration camp - Aushwitz Birkenau. The guided tour of the camp will last aprox. 3 hrs.

Your tour begins with a 15 minute documentary film about the liberation of the camp. Then a museum guide will show you the exhibitions in some of the surviving prison blocks, the gas chamber and the crematorium.

After a short break, the tour continues to Birkenau, where you go up to the watchtower above the entrance gate to see the view of the biggest Nazi Concentration Camp. A Martyrdom Museum was set up here in 1947.In 1979, UNESCO included Auschwitz-Birkenau in its list of World Heritage sites.

In the afternoon a trip to Wieliczka Salt Mine. A guided tour inside.( Aprox 3 hrs).

The Wieliczka - mine has operated continuously since its construction in the Middle Ages. Today it reaches a depth of more than one thousand feet on nine levels with close to one hundred ninety miles of corridors, galleries, chambers and underground lakes. The mine currently has three distinct functions: as an active, working mine, as the world's first subterranean therapeutic sanitarium used in the treatment of bronchial and allergic asthma, and as an important tourist attraction for visitors to Krakow.

People who tour the mine visit only the first three levels, along a winding route of nearly two miles. As they follow the subterranean paths, they wander past artistic salt carvings and the 17th century solid salt St. Anthony chapel, the oldest original creation in the mine.

Return to your hotel in the evening.

Day 4 Zamosc

Check out. Private transfer to Zamosc town called the Pearl of Renaissance (UNESCO LISTED).

Zamosc was founded in the year 1580 by the Chancellor and Hetman (head of the army of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth) Jan Zamoyski, on the trade route linking western and northern Europe with the Black Sea. Modelled on Italian trading cities, and built during the Baroque period by the architect Bernardo Morando, a native of Padua, Zamość remains a perfect example of a Renaissance town of the late 16th century, which retains its original layout and fortifications (Zamosc Fortress), and a large number of buildings blending Italian and central European architectural traditions. The Old City quarter of Zamość has been placed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.

Check in. Accommodation in 3*Hotel in a twin/double room on B&B basis in Zamość for 1 night.

UNESCO World Heritage List Tour (day 5)

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A private tour of monumental tenement houses located around a square, Cathedral, Town Hall of Zamosc with our local guide.( aprox 2 hrs).

A lunch break on a way to Białowieza in Białowieski National Park (The World Heritage of UNESCO and the World Reserve of Biosphere UNESCO) the biggest set of primary forests in Europe.

Check in. Accommodation in 4*Hotel in a twin/double room on B&B basis in Białowieża for 1 night.

Day 6 Bialowieza National Park

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A short visit to the Białowieski National Park to trace the Polish Bisons!

Private transfer to Malbork.

Check in. Accommodation in 3*Hotel in a twin/double room on B&B basis in Malbork for 1 night.

Day 7 Malbork Castle, Torun

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On a way to Torun a visit to Malbork Castle- the Teutonic Castle in Malbork, the biggest Gothic stronghold of medieval Europe, registered on the list of UNESCO.

Private transfer to Toruń.

Check in. Accommodation in 3*Hotel in a twin/double room on B&B basis in Toruń for 1 night.

Torun is one of the most beautiful cities of Poland. Located on the picturesque banks of the Vistula River it was a witness to the turbulent times for nearly 800 years. The gothic buildings of Torun’s Old Town, which won the designation of a World Heritage Site from Unesco in 1997, present proof of Torun’s old economic, cultural and intellectual ties with the leading cities of Europe within the Hanseatic League .

Come and discover Torun for yourself. Witness the unchanged unique layout of streets of Torun Old Town, the medieval part of the city, Nicolas Copernicus' birth house, the silent arches of St. Johns Cathedral or the restplace of Princess Anna Wazówna in Saint Mary Church.

Day 8

Check out.

Private guided tour of Torun with our local guide-a walk through the Old Town (UNESCO), one of the best examples of Gothic architecture, sightseeing cathedral and Mikołaj Kopernik’s Museum.

Leisure time to buy some souvenirs and try famous gingerbread of Toruń.

Private transfer to Warsaw. Accommodation in 3*hotel in a twin/double room on B&B basis for 2 nights.

Day 9 Warsaw City

Warsaw is the capital of Poland and is located in the heart of the country by the biggest river, Vistula. Being Poland’s most cosmopolitan, dynamic and interesting city, it comes dotted with luxury hotels, elegant shops, great parks and modern architecture.

The city offers you a mixture of Stalinist structures such as the giant Palace of Culture and Science which was a gift of friendship from the Soviet Union to the Polish nation and was built in 1950, cannot be missed! Here you can go to the 30th floor where there is a viewing terrace, which gives you a great view over the city. Further, you can find lots of historic monuments of the WWII, such as the Warsaw Ghetto that was made famous by Roman Polanskis film ‘the Pianist’. The booming New Town needs to be seen as well as you would not want to miss the Polish Champs Elysee! You will also need to take advantage of the Old Town with its Royal 14th Century Castle, the charming park/palace complex of Lazienki and Wilanow or discover a treasure trove of art at the National Museum.

Sightseeing with a guide of the Old Town and Royal Castle (UNESCO), Monument of Ghetto Heroes, Town Hall, a walk to Royal Łazienki: Palace on the Water and Theatre on the Island.(aprox 3 hrs).

Time free for leisure.

UNESCO World Heritage Tour (day 10)

Check out. Private transfer to Warsaw airport or Warsaw railway station.

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