Our Offer
Chopin Year 2010
Hotels in Poland
Conferences and Congresses
Events
Catalogue

Current Newsletter
Archive
Order Newsletter
Jewish Roots for Independent
 
   
 
  Route:
  Warszawa - Kraków - Warszawa
 

 

Validity: ON REQUEST

 

 

  Net rates per person for travel agents:
 
  in SGL room: from 775 €
i
n DBL room: from 519 €
 
  Tour features:
 
  • First class train between Warsaw-Krakow-Warsaw
  • All transfers
  • 5 nights at the hotel
  • Sightseeing programs, as indicated, with English speaking guide
  • Hotel taxes and service charges
  • Daily breakfast
Programme:
 
  Day 1:Warszawa
 

Arrival and transfer to your hotel.

 
  Day 2: Warszawa/Kraków
 

Morning city tour of Warsaw. Jewish sites of Warsaw: area of the former Ghetto, Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, Umschlagplatz, Jewish Cemetery, Jewish Institute. Contruction of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews will start in Warsaw in 2008, to a design by Finnish architects . The musem will  be opened to visitors two years later.

In the afternoon transfer to the train stadion for a train to Krakow. Transfer to hotel for overnight.

 
  Day 3: Kraków
 

After breakfast a city tour of Krakow`s Kazimierz: the traces of Jewish Culture·. From the 16th century, the district of Kazimierz became the main center of Jewish culture in Poland. The annihilation of Jewish Kazimierz was shown in Steven Spielberg`s film " Schindler`s List". To this day, the district has preserved its special climate, attracting a great number of visitors, not only Jews. Students enjoy spending long evenings at the clubs located here.The sightseeing tour includes the synagogue and the Jewish Cementery.  

The afternoon free for any of the optional tours.                                                                                          

 
  Day 4: Kraków
 

In the morning an excursion to Auschwitz. Concentration camp was set up by the Nazis in 1940. .Approx.70,000 people died here in 1940-1943. Another extermination camp was established in  neighbouring Brzezinka(Birkenau)in 1941, where approx. 1,5 milion people were killed, over 90% of them Jews. It is one of the most poignant testimonies to genocide in human history.                                

The afternoon is on your own.

 
  Day 5: Kraków/Warszawa
 

After breakfast transfer to the train station for a train to Warsaw. Transfer to the hotel.

 The afternoon free for any of the optional tours.

 
 
  Day 6: Warszawa
 

After breakfast transfer to the airport.

 
  Optional services from Kraków
 
  • Walking tour of Old Market Square with the Cloth Hall and the Church of the bleesed Virgin Mary, the historic buildings of the Jagiellonian University, fragments of defensive walls, Wawel on the hill, Planty common. 
  • Wieliczka Salt Mine attracts tourists with its amzing underground 3,5 km- long route with splendid chapels, lakes, orginal miner`s equipment and a multitude of salt sculptures.
  • Jewish style dinner
 
  Optional services from Warszawa
 
  • Royal Castle - a several kilometre long way streching from the Royal Castle trought the Łazienki to Belweder, and its first part, the Krakowskie Przedmieście, is one of the most interesting streets of Warszawa.
  • Zelazowa Wola - Chopin`s mansion from the 19th century, the composer`s place of birth , where in the summer season Sunday piano concerts are held; plus a park with interesting specimens of trees and shrubs.
 
 
 

 

Design: Sens Studio Wizualne