As you descend the 380 steps into the depths of the salt mine you get the impression that you are entering a magical underground city full of mysterious grottos and subterranean lakes. As you walk along the 3.5-kilometre route you will be able to admire original appliances and mining equipment as well as chapels forged out of salt, including the largest and most beautiful of them all – the Chapel of St. Kinga, the patron saint of salt miners. This subterranean church is richly adorned with candelabras, sculptures and figures of saints carved in salt. You return to the surface via the lift in the Daniłowicz shaft, which is another attractive part of the mine, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Saturday - 15.00
Duration: 4,5 hours
Meeting point: Hotel Wyspiański
Price: 38 EUR per person
Language: English, German
Important information;
Comfortable footwear is recommended, as well as warmer clothes, because the temperature in the Mine, though constant, is low (14oC i.e. 57.2F).
The Auschwitz camp, established by the Nazis in 1940 in the suburbs of the city of Auschwitz, has become a symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust. Historians estimate that in less than five years of the camp's existence 1-1.5 million people were killed in Auschwitz, most of them - approximately 1-1.35 million - were Jews. In the former camp there are still ruins of the gas chambers, miles of barbed wire fence and the railway platform where the doomed people arrived, all of which greatly impress the visitors. The tour of the Museum, included on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1978, comprises both parts of the former concentration camp - Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau - and a documentary film presenting the first moments after the camp was liberated.
Sunday - 07.00
Duration: 6,5 hours
Meeting point: Hotel Wyspiański
Price: 38 EUR per person
Language: English, German
Kraków, the former capital of Poland and a European centre of culture, art and science, is a city that offers a wide range of tourist attractions. The tour will begin from visiting the Jewish District of Kazimierz to explore the area which used to be inhabited by one of the most diverse Jewish communities in Europe. Afterwards, the tour will be continued along the Royal Way from the Barbican (city gates) and the St. Florian’s Gate to the Wawel Hill.
Krakow’s Old Town, with its unique architecture, was labelled World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1978. The heart of the city is located in the Main Square, the biggest market square of medieval Europe, with its remarkable 16th-century Sukiennice (Cloth Hall), an example of Gothic-Renaissance architectural style. The visit to Old Town will include a walk across the Main Square and seeing the Church of the Virgin Mary (Kosciol Mariacki), which boasts one of the greatest Gothic altars in Europe, carved by the great Veit Stoss (Wit Stwosz).
Sunday - 08.45
Duration: 4 hours
Meeting point: Hotel Wyspiański
Price: 36 EUR per person
Language: English, German
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