SOCIAL PROGRAM
1. Krakow City Tour
This walking tour gives you the chance to see the city's gems.
The programme includes: one of the most beautiful squares in Europe (Rynek Glowny), the Cloth Hall, the museum of the Jagiellonian University, St. Mary’s Cathedral and the Royal Route
- Services: English speaking guide
- Time: 10.00
- Meeting point: 3 Mariacki Square (Plac Mariacki 3)
- Duration: 2,5 hours
- Price: 45,- PLN / per person / entrances are paid on the place
2. Kazimierz
The best-preserved former Jewish quarter in Europe. The programme includes a visit to the Neo-Romanesque synagogue called the Temple. Then across New Square - the former commercial centre of Kazimierz, the Kupa Synagogue, the Isaac Synagogue, the Wysoka (High) Synagogue and the Stara (Old) Synagogue. Upon reaching Szeroka street, the heart of Kazimierz, you will admire the Remuh Synagogue - the final one on the tour - which is still in use. There is a unique 16th-century cemetery adjoining the synagogue.
- Services: English speaking guide
- Time: 13.30
- Meeting point: 3 Mariacki Square (Plac Mariacki 3)
- Duration: 2 hours
- Price: 45,- PLN / per person / entrances are paid on the place
3. Wieliczka Salt Mine
For age upon age salt, also known as "white gold", was Poland’s economic foundation. It was used, in ancient times, as a form of payment, and was the most important Polish export. This natural resource is located in Wieliczka, about 10 kilometres east of Cracow.
The historic underground chambers, shafts and caverns, decorated with sculptures and carvings, are connected by 2 kilometres-worth of passage. The descent to the Mine is by stairs (380 steps) which go down to three levels, passing by original excavations on the way: longitudinal, traverses, chamber and lakes, as well as lesser and minor shafts. Perhaps you will also see Skarbek here - an old mine ghost and the guardian of the miners. The return to the surface is by lift up the Danilowicz Shaft, from the Level 3 (at the depth of 135 metres). In 1978 the Wieliczka Salt Mine was added to UNESCO´s 1st World List of Cultural and Natural Heritage
- Services: bus transfer Krakow - Wieliczka - Krakow, courier, English speaking guide and entrance
- Departure: 10.30 and 15.15
- Meeting point: 2 Matejko Square (Plac Matejki)
- Duration: 4 hours
- Price: 90,- PLN per person
4. Auschwitz-Birkenau camps
Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust first of all for Jews, Poles and Gypsies. During the Second World War the Nazis murdered more than 1 million people here. The visit to Auschwitz begins with a short documentary film about the liberation of the camp in 1945. Than the tour continues on to the main camp - Auschwitz I - Stammlager. In the camp's buildings, known as blocks, there is an exhibition about administrative structure of the camp, its topography, the daily live of prisoners and the Nazi torture system. After a short break a visit to the second camp - Auschwitz II - Birkenau, which was the main camp from 1942-1945. From the former SS watch tower there is a clear view of this vast field of barracks. Visiting of the barracks and stop at the Rampa (railway platform), where the sorting of prisoners arriving at the camps took place. On the way passing along the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoriums.
- Services: transportation by coach, courier, English-speaking guide in Auschwitz Birkenau, 53 min. documentary film
- Departure: 8.00 and 13.45
- Meeting point: 2 Matejko Square (Plac Matejki)
- Duration: 5,5 - 6 hours
- Price: 80,- PLN per person
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