Polish-Jewish heritage

Polish – Jewish history
the history of two Nations and one Land…

Day 1st
Your arrival to Warsaw, where you are welcomed by our guide-driver. Time to relax and a Warsaw city tour: Jewish Cemetery, The Warsaw Ghetto Memorial, Anielewicz’s Bunker, the Judenrat Building, Umschlagpltz and Nożyk Synagogue. Dinner and an overnight stay at your hotel.

Day 2nd
Breakfast. Departure to Tykocin with our guide-driver. Your visit program includes the Synagogue dated on middle of XVII-th century, now completely renovated. Next drive to Treblinka - place of German Nazi concentration camp from II World War. Afternoon return drive to Warsaw for your dinner and overnight stay at a hotel.

Day 3rd
Breakfast. Next, departure with our guide-driver to Kazimierz Dolny, where you visit the Synagogue (dated on XVIII-th century), Jewish cemetery and the picturesque Old Town. Afternoon visit to Majdanek - a former concentration camp during World War II, where 200 thousands Jews were murdered by German Nazi. Next your drive to Lublin for accommodation at a hotel; short city walk possible. Dinner and overnight stay.

Day 4th
Breakfast. Departure for southern part of Poland. Your visit to Łańcut for a walk in Potocki’s Garden to the Old Synagogue, which presents nowadays a large collection of Judaics. Next, continuation of your drive to Krakow. Dinner and an overnight stay at hotel in Krakow.

Day 5th
Breakfast. Your visit in Krakow starts at Kazimierz – a former Jewish district. The city walk with a guide: the Old Synagogue, Remuh Synagogue with cemetery and Old Market Square. Dinner and an overnight stay at your hotel.

Day 6th
Breakfast. Departure to Auschwitz – Birkenau - the former German Nazi camp during World War II. Your visit to the National Museum includes a visit to two parts of the camp and a documentary movie. Afternoon departure with your guide-driver to Łódź in central Poland, for a dinner and an overnight stay at a hotel.

Day 7th
Breakfast. Your sightseeing tour of Łódź: the Old Town (former place of Jewish Ghetto), the Jewish cemetery (the biggest in Europe, with over 160.000 buried persons), Poznanski’s residence. Afternoon time to relax. Farewell diner at evening and an overnight stay at a hotel.

Day 8th
Breakfast. Transfer to the airport in Łódź or in Warsaw for your return flight.


Tour dates in 2011

April 2011	1st – 8th April,           14th - 21st April,        22nd- 29th April
May 2011	1st – 8th May,            10th – 17th May,        19th – 26th May
June 2011	1st – 8th June,            9th – 16th June,         18th – 25th June
July 2011	1st – 8th July,             9th- 16th July,           18th-25th July
August 2011	1st – 8th August,        9th- 16th August,      18th -25th August
September 2011	1st – 8th September,      9th-16th September,       18th-25th September

*tour may start also everyday between 1st of April and 1st of November 2011 on a special request: info@excitingpoland.com
(with only few days exceptions for public holidays)


Prices: 1650 $ / person  (4-5 person group) 
            2090 $ / person  (2-3 person group)

Prices includes:
- services of English speaking licensed guide-driver,
- all transfers by car, van or minibus (depends on group size),
- accommodation at 3* - 4* hotels in 2,3 bedded rooms,
- breakfasts and dinners as mentioned in the tour program,
- local guides service in English,
- entrance tickets according to the program.
- VAT (tax).


Additional information:
- single room supplementary fee on request,
- any tour extension or change available on request,
- larger group prices on request.

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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Lublin with its 350,000 inhabitants is the largest Polish town east of the Vistula and an important centre of science, culture and business. The old town with its picturesque medieval streets is worth a closer look. Lined with beautiful 15th and 16th century houses, the town square has many atmospheric cafés scattered around. The old town hall was remodelled in neoclassical style in the 18th century. The Lublin castle dates to the 19th century, but its massive round tower and chapel are respectively from the 13th and 14th centuries. Today the Museum of Polish Painting, Folk-art and Archaeology occupy them. Lublin used to host one of the major Jewish communities in Poland. The monument on Plac Ofiar Getta commemorates Jews murdered by the Nazis during WW II. Not far away from the centre, in the district of Majdanek, the German occupants created in 1941 one of the largest extermination camps; after the war the site was turned to a museum and a big memorial to the victims was erected.

Where cultures meet. The Old Town has preserved its medieval urban layout with many churches, burgher houses and gates. The Lublin royal castle’s showpiece is the Holy Trinity chapel (14th c.) with the unique Russo-Byzantine frescoes. Many museums. The suburban skansen presents old rural architecture and collections of artifacts from the region between the Vistula and the Bug River.

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.

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.