Escorted City Break



Shopping & Sightseeing  4 days / 3 nights

Krakow is a place you will not easily forget. Magical city in which you will find elegant restaurants, sophisticated souvenirs, romantic spots and reach history. All this just one step from your hotel.  Private guide exclusively at your disposal.  In just 3 days you will be able to discover on your own extraordinary vibe of medieval town and its surroundings. Exceptional architecture, exquisite regional cuisine and hospitality of cracovians will make an unforgettable impression.

 

Day 1       Arrival -  Kraków Old Town

- Arrival to Krakow Airport.

- Transfer to the hotel and check in.

- In the afternoon we invite you to explore the Old town. Our experience guide will show you one of the most beautiful cities in Europe. Short walktours - during up to 2-3 hours, will provide an enjoyable and exclusive sightseeing, enabling you easily visit all greatest Krakow sights, admire wonderful antique architecture,most fashionable street and the biggest Shopping Mall Krakowska`s Gallery. Firstly our guide will take you around the magical Old Town (UNESCO) with it’s most important and spectacular monuments: the largest Market Square area in Europe with St. Mary’s Church. In the center of the Main Market Square is shopping mall - “Sukiennice” with which housing souvenirs shops with amber and leather things. After seeing the most important sights in Market area, continuing up to the Florianska Street and to Barbican, defense walls with the Floriańska Gate, it became an important feature on the Royal Route leading to the Wawel Hill. Our walking tour will be ending in Krakowska`s Gallery.

- In the evening you will have free time for shopping

- Dinner

- Overnight stay.

 


Day 2     Krakow City Tour

- Breakfast

- Today`s trip (during up to 4-5 hours) will begin from visiting of the Wawel Hill with the magnificent Royal Castle and Cathedral. After seeing Wawel Castle, we are continuing up our sightseeing to Kazimierz Quarter - the center of Jewish religions, culture and previously a separate town. This tour will take you to the most important monuments in Kazimierz district and the most popular Szeroka Street with many stylish restaurants with live music and the hotels. You will see the monuments of the Jewish culture in Krakow: Old Synagogue, Isaac's Synagogue and Remuh Sunagogue. Today`s Kazimierz is the most popular district in Krakow. It is a center of nightlife; countless pubs, nightclubs and restaurants. Our tour will be ending near Kazimierz`s Galeria.

- In the afternoon you will have free time for relax and shopping.

- Dinner

- Overnight stay.


Day 3     Zakopane

- Breakfast

- This tour will take you to a different world. You will discover the marvelous landscape in the Tatry Mountains, highland folklore, wooden houses andlocal specialties.The Tatra Mountains are the highest range of the Carpathian Mountains and lie along Poland’s border with Slovakia (National Park cover the whole of the Tatras both sides of the national border). Zakopane is famous for its healthy climate and it is known as a mountain - climbing resort the best one for winter activities. It is a city showing many monuments of old wooden architecture built in the special regional style. We look at the Tatra’s Museum followed by a funicular ride up the Gubałowka Mt. The town abounds in varied hotels, inns, and boarding-houses, restaurants and cafes, shops and art galleries and sport facilities. We will visit the charming wooden old parish church and the most unique cemetery in Poland. After that you will also have enough time for lunch and to walk down Krupowki Street for souvenir-shopping. We stop at Dębno, a 15th c. wooden Gothic country church which has an exquisite original polychromatic wall decoration inside - a relic of unique beauty. The church is entered on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.

- Departure to Krakow.

- Free evening 

- Dinner

- Overnight stay

 

Day 4     Wieliczka Salt Mine - Departure

- Breakfast

- After the breakfast and check out of the hotel, we will go to Wieliczka Salt Mine Tour (during 3 hours). Salt Mine Wieliczka,which was entered in 1978 on UNESCO World Heritage List. The only salt mine in the world preserved in this condition, 135 meters underground, visited by more than 1 million tourists a year. You begin your route with level I-64m below the ground, walk through, underground lakes, various interesting geological forms, galleries, chambers and chapels down to level III, 135m below the ground. The route is 2,5 km long.  The lift will take you up. The highlight is the richly ornamented Chapel of Blessed Kinga. Note: not recommended to the people who have problems with walking or those who are claustrophobic, Lift down extra paid, inside temperature +14'C  (55'F).

- Transfert to the airport. Have a nice flight!