AMT Travel

A tour for people disposing only one week for visit of Poland. The route will take you from central to southern part of Poland

2nd Day Czestochowa and Wroclaw

08:30-10:00-visit of the 'Spritual Capital of Poland' - the shrine of Jasna Góra (Czestochowa) famous for 600-hundred year presence of the Black Madonna Image.

10:00-departure for Wroclaw

13:00-dinner in a typical restaurant in the centre of Wroclaw

14:00-17:00-Visit of Wroclaw- city of 100 bridges- Ostrów Tumski (the Island of the Cathedral) with the St John the Baptist Cathedral, the University with the Baroque Aula Leopoldina and walk to the Old City ended in the one of the most beautiful medieval market squares of Europe. After the tour-free time

19:00-check in the hotel, dinner

3rd Day Brzeg and Auschwitz

08:30-departure for Brzeg

09:30-10:30:-visit of the Brzeg Castle, the Renaissance residence of the last Silesian Dukes of Polish Piast Royal Family. Another magnificient court yard that was reason to call the castle - "A Little Wawel".

10:30-departure for Auschwitz

13:00-14:00-lunch in a restaurant

14:00-16:30- visit of the extermination camps Auschwitz-Birkenau. Special tour of places where 1,5 mln people mainly Jews from all Europe lost heir lives. Place that shouldn't be forgotten.

18:00 check in the hotel, dinner

4th Day Cracow

09:00-17:00-visit of Cracow: The tour begins with the Wawel Castle- the Royal Residence with famous collection of Flemish tapestries, Italian paintings and the Cathedral where Polish king were crowned and buried- a mixture af various styles including one of the best examples of the Italian Renaissance style -the King Sigismundus' Chapel; visit to the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz – a famous Jewish cultural centre for the Central and Eastern Europe-sinagogues -Old Sinagogue, Isaac's Sinagogue, Remuh Sinagogue , former market square, mykvas, cementaries.

13:00-14:30 lunch in the centre of Cracow

Walk along the Royal Way with stops at churches of St Andrew, SS Peter and Paul; the Jagiellonian University with the Collegium Maius -Copernicus' college; the Main Market Square- the largest square of medieval Europe with the Sukiennice (the Cloth Hall) building and the Dormition of Virgin Mary Basilica holding a treasure of the North European late gothic-the Veit Stoss Altar;the Czartoryski Museum with famous paintings of Leonardo da Vinci (the Lady with Ermine) and Rembrandt (Landscape with the Good Samaritan); the Barbican with St. Florian Gate-remains of medieval city walls

17:00-19:00-free time

20:00-dinner in a restauant with traditional Polsih folk show with music

5th Day Pieniny National Park-Zakopane

08:00- departure towards mountains along pictoresque road to Zakopane

10:00-12:00-embarkment on rafts guided by highlanders and trip on river Dunajec Gorges within the Pieniny National Park to Szczawnica. Pieniny are small but one of the beautiful among Polish mountains. White rocks take beautiful shapes like Trzy Korony ( the Three Crowns Mountain) or Sokolica (the Falcon's Nest). The park is a shelter for many protected plans and animals like black stork or royal eagle.

12:30-13:30-lunch in Szczawnica

13:30-14:30-tour continued to Debno a village with the 15th century wooden church built without nails! Internal decoration with medieval polychromies and sculptures made this church one of the most precious monuments of Polish wooden architecture being includend on the UNESCO list.

14:30-17:00-visit of Zakopane, winter capital of Poland. Panoramic visit of the town with traditional architecture

17:00-return to Cracow

20:00-dinner in the hotel

6th Day – Wieliczka

09:00-departure for Wieliczka

10:00-12:00-visit of the salt mine in Wieliczka – one of the UNESCO World Heritage Monuments. Tour of a real underground city with miles of corridors and hundreds of chambers-the most bautiful included in the tour with underground lakes, chapels adorned with real works of art made by hands of miners

12:30 -lunch in: a typical restaurant in Wieliczka, return to Cracow, free time

20:00 farewell dinner in the hotel