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1. Berlin - Poznań (290 km)
Departure from Berlin in the direction of Poznań. Lunch en
route. Arrival in Poznań in the afternoon. Check in at hotel.
Guided tour of the city including the old town with
the town hall and visit to Ostrów Tumski with its splendid
St. Peter's Cathedral. Dinner in the old town.
Day 2. Poznań - Warsaw (300 km)
Morning departure for Warsaw via Zelazowa Wola, the
birth place of the composer Frederic Chopin. Visit his
museum situated in his former family manor. Time to relax
in the manor park. Lunch in a local restaurant. Further drive
to Warsaw. Arrival in Warsaw. Check in at hotel. Relaxing
walk in the old town and dinner.
Day 3. Warsaw
The Warsaw city tour starts with the visit to the
historical museum presenting a short film about the history
of the capital and its total destruction during the Second
World War. Next, guided tour of the Old Town including
the Royal Castle and the Royal route with its monuments. After
lunch, relaxing walk in the Lazienki Park and private
Chopin recital in the splendid interiors of the Palace
on the Water, with glass of champagne in the interval. Dinner
at hotel.
Day 4. Warsaw - Czestochowa - Auschwitz - Kraków (350
km)
Drive to Czestochowa. Visit the Pauline Monastery
of Jasna Góra, a religious and spiritual centre of Poland
with the famous Icon of the Black Madonna. Lunch en
route. Visit the former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Arrival in Krakow in the evening. Dinner at hotel.
Day 5. Kraków
Sightseeing tour of the Old Town including The Royal Way
with its monuments. Visit the St Mary's church with
the majestic, wooden altar carved by Veit Stoss, and the medieval
cloth halls at the heart of the main square. Then a guided
tour of the Wawel Hill with a guided visit to the
Royal Cathedral housing tombs of the Polish kings. Lunch.
Visit Collegium Maius, the oldest building of the Jagiellonian
University, housing among others original astronomical devices
used by Nicolaus Copernicus. In the late afternoon, guided
tour of the Jewish quarter Kazimierz. Dinner with Jewish
life music at a local restaurant.
Day 6. Kraków-Wroc³aw (350 km)
After breakfast visit the nearby salt mine in Wieliczka
with the underground world of chambers, corridors, chapels
and statues carved in salt by the generations of miners -
quite unique tourist attraction in the world. Departure for
Wroc³aw. Lunch en route. Arrival in Wroc³aw in the evening
for dinner and overnight.
Day 7. Wroc³aw
Guided sightseeing of the city including the city's
highlights: the market square with the magnificent Town Hall,
the University building and Aula Leopoldina with one
of the most beautiful baroque interiors in Poland. Then walk
through the charming islands on the Odra river. Lunch. Free
afternoon. Farewell diner.
Day 8.
After Breakfast departure in the direction of Berlin or Prague.
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