Polish - Jewish History / 8 days /

Tour program

Day 1st
Your arrival to Warsaw. Warsaw city tour with local guide: Jewish Cemetery, The Warsaw Ghetto Memorial, Anielewicz’s Bunker, the Judenrat Building, Umschlagpltz and Nożyk Synagogue. Afternoon city walk on The Old Town. Dinner at restaurant and overnight stay at your hotel. (D)

Day 2nd
Breakfast. Departure to Tykocin. Your program includes visit in the Synagogue dated on middle of XVII-th century, now completely renovated. Next drive to Treblinka. Your visit at place of Nazi concentration camp from II World War. Afternoon return drive to Warsaw for your dinner and overnights stay at your hotel. (B,D)

Day 3rd
Breakfast. Departure for Kazimierz Dolny. Your visit includes: the Synagogue (dated on XVIII-th century), Jewish cemetery. Next your drive to Lublin for sightseeing tour: Yeshiva (Talmudic Academy of Lublin), the Old Synagogue. Afternoon visit to Majdanek - a former concentration camp during World War II, where 200 thousands Jews were murdered. Transfer to your hotel. Dinner and overnight stay. (B,D).

Day 4th
Breakfast. Departure for Southern part of Poland. Your visit to Leżajsk -short break and your visit to the Jewish cemetery. Next your transfer to Łańcut for a walk in Potocki’s Garden to the Old Synagogue, which presents nowadays a large collection of Judaics. Drive to Tarnów for your afternoon visit to Jewish cemetery and relics of the Synagogue dated on XVII-th century. Dinner and overnight stay at your hotel.

Day 5th
Breakfast. Departure for Cracow. Your visit to Kazimierz – a former Jewish district. The city walk with local guide: the Old Synagogue, Remuh Synagogue with cemetery and old Market Square. Dinner and overnight stay at your hotel /available in Kazimierz district /. (B,D)

Day 6th
Breakfast. Departure to Auschwitz – Birkenau the former Nazi camp during World War II. Your visit to National Museum includes visit to the two parts of camp and a historic movie. Afternoon transfer to Łódź for your dinner and overnight stay at a hotel. (B,D)

Day 7th
Breakfast. Your sightseeing tour with a local guide includes: the Old Town (former place of Jewish Ghetto), the Jewish cemetery (the biggest in Europe with over 160.000 buried persons), Poznanski’s residence. Farewell diner at evening and an overnight stay at your hotel. (B,D)

Day 8th
Breakfast. Departure to the airport in Warsaw for your flight home.


Price and date: on request - info@excitingpoland.com

Price includes: transport by luxury bus according your tour part in Poland, service of English / Polish speaking tour director,
accommodation (7) at 3 / 4 * hotels in double rooms, breakfasts (7) and dinners (7), local guide services and entrance tickets according to the tour program, all local taxes and portage services.
B = breakfast, D= dinner.

Price does not include: meals and services not mentioned above, possible tips for driver and tour director.

Welcome to Warsaw interesting and happening city in Europe!
Today the city has undergone a huge transformation process. Many old buildings gave way to modern sky scrapers and dilapidating old town was restored. Worth seeing subsection includes sample walks around Warsaw and has suggestions on trips outside of Warsaw.

Warsaw – a charming capital
Warsaw is a city with many faces where tradition intermingles with modernity. From the terrace on Zamkowy Square, where the Royal Castle and St. Anne's Church are located, is a view of the new Świętokrzyski Bridge. The dominating silhouette of the city centre belongs to the Palace of Culture and Science, which today shares the city skyline with numerous office towers. You can feel the breath of history in the Old Town, on Nowy Świat Street and everywhere where the city's roots have been preserved.

We hope you enjoy your stay in one of the most interesting and happening places in Europe!
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Cracow- an ancient magic city.
Cracow offers a wide spectrum of museums, art galleries full of exhibitions, theatres, historic cellars, clubs, cafes & restaurants with live music, is an exciting destination for the travelers on the world map!
The city’s cultural heritage is mirrored in its intellectual achievements – the Jagiellonian University is the oldest in Poland. The student population of the city numbers almost 100,000 and this large student population fires a lively nightlife scene that burns brightly in the atmospheric cellar bars away from the tourists above. Cracow has sharply contrasting seasons with cold, snowy winters and fresh springs and autumns. Visitors should beware of the locals’ use of the word fresh – an optimistic reference to blatantly cold weather. The labyrinthine cellars of the Old Town are an ideal place to escape the winter chill. However, come summer, the quintessential Cracow experience is relaxing in a pavement café on the main square enjoying one of the long and balmy nights.

Cracow (Krakow) is now well established as a major tourist destination. At the height of summer, Poland’s fourth largest city throngs with tour groups, all manner of tourist tack and countless pavement cafés that seem to occupy every cobble of the main square. Out of season, late at night or even in the first slivers of morning light, it is clear why so many people flock to visit. This magical city, situated in the southeast of the country, between the Jura uplands and the Tatra Mountains, on the banks of the Wisla (Vistula) River, has one of the best-preserved medieval city centres in Europe. Dozens of churches cover almost every architectural period and are surrounded by monasteries and abbeys – walking through the Old Town streets is like drifting back through the musty pages of a historical novel.

Cracow – a tourist horn of plenty
Cracow, Poland's former royal capital, is one of the most attractive spots on the tourist map of Europe. This is a place where legends, history and modernity intertwine. The city, which lies on the banks of the Vistula River, is famous for its priceless historical monuments of culture and art.

Auschwitz-Birkenau (Oświęcim-Brzezinka in Polish)
All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. It was established by the Nazis in the suburbs of the city of Oswiecim which, like other parts of Poland, was occupied by the Germans during the Second World War. The name of the city of Oswiecim was changed to Auschwitz, which became the name of the camp as well. June 14, 1940, when the first transport of Polish political prisoner deportees arrived in Auschwitz, is regarded as the date when it began to function. Since 1940 it was the location of a concentration and later of the extermination camp. By January 1945 around 2 million people had been killed here, mostly Jews but also Gypsies, as well as political and war prisoners. The camp was designed to be an organized death factory. Everything was thoroughly put into accounts. On leaving the camp, the SS blew up part of the facilities. The barracks once crammed with prisoners, the torture and execution sites and the rail-tracks leading straight to the camp remained on place to stand witness to this appalling cruelty. Tourists can watch the movie made by the Soviet troops during the camp’s liberation. This memorial site can be visited every day. It was added to UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.

Łódź with its 786,000 inhabitants is the second largest city of Poland. In the 19th century, textile factories began developing here with unimaginable rapidity. A testimony of industrial architecture, they carry the same message as the superb palaces of their former owners and still well preserved workers’ housing estates. Among the most glamorous residences are those of banker Maksymilian Goldfeder, publisher Jan Petersilge and factory-owner Juliusz Heinzel, all located in ul. Piotrkowska. In the same street stands the Grand Hotel, one of the largest and most modern European hotels erected at the turn of the 19th century. At the far end of ul. Piotrkowska stands the White Factory – today home to the Museum of Textile Industry. The mansion of Leopold Rudolf Kindermann at ul. Wólczańska 31 passes for one of the most stunning Art Nouveau masterpieces in Poland. The former Poznański family palace at ul. Więckowskiego 36 is housing a most intriguing collection of Polish modern art. Another palace and a former property of the factory owner Israel Poznański at ul. Ogrodowa 15 is occupied by the Historical Museum of Łódź. In its side wing is a museum of Arthur Rubinstein, the famous pianist and composer born in Łódź. The residence known as Księży Młyn is a good example of the economic leap performed by 19th century Łódź. After the costly renovation, the palace, situated at ul. Przędzalnicza 72, was turned into a museum presenting life of the Łódź factory owners to an amazing detail. At ul. Bracka 40 stretches one of Europe’s largest Jewish cemeteries with as many as 180,000 graves.

The city is metamorphosing into a modern cultural metropolis. By young people, it is now mostly associated with techno culture. Around Piotrkowska street spreads the area of club life with its stock of bars, clubs and discos. The city is also known for its Film Academy, which boasts Roman Polański as one of its best renowned graduates.