Westerplatte Peninsula, learn about Westerplatte Military Transit Depot and the secret preparations to the war, the course of the battle as well as the mysteries associated with this heroic place. You will visit the battlefield with the historical Watch Guard No. 1, the ruins of garrison and an interesting outdoor exhibition presenting 7 days of heroic defence of Westerplatte.
Set off your cruise to face the history of the site where World War 2 begun. Our local guide will introduce you to the history of Westerplatte Peninsula, learn about Westerplatte Military Transit Depot and the secret preparations to the war, the course of the battle as well as the mysteries associated with this heroic place. You will visit the battlefield with the historical Watch Guard No. 1, the ruins of garrison and an interesting outdoor exhibition presenting 7 days of heroic defence of Westerplatte.
Sightseeing includes admission to the museum, guiding service and cruise tickets. Booking should be made no later than 24 hours before the planned start. Starting time can be set individually with customer upon request. Alternative transport may be provided on rainy days.
See Royal Wawel Cathedral, Sigismunt’s Bell, Royal Catacumbs, Wawel Courtyard, Wawel Castle St. Mary’s Church with famous Vit Stwosz wooden altar. Take up the chance and discover the royal face of the Royal City. During this private walking tour you will see many luxurious places, visited daily by number of Polish kings and dukes in the past.
The tour will start with the pick-up directly from your hotel by your private exper Guide - knowledgeable lover of Krakow. After making your way directly to Wawel hill you will firstly visit the royal castle. When you enter the famous arcade courtyard, you will see that it looks like the palaces that you can easily find in the northern Italy. Inside of it you will find many representative and luxurious chambers with wooden furniture, marbles and original paintings.
The second part of your visit is a royal cathedral. It’s an effect of work of many generations of Polish kings and the bishops. It is definitely the most important church in Poland – this is where almost every Polish king was crowned and later buried. The main place of the church is right in the middle – this is where the altar of St. Stanislav is. It was modelled after the grave of St. Peter in Vatican. While walking around, you will notice a chapel that is similar to a renaissance pearl of Italy - Sigismunt’s Chapel from XVIth century - masterpiece built by Italian artists. You will also have a chance to climb the highest tower with a famous Sigismunt’s bell, which brings luck when you touch it. From the top, you will see picturesque view on the city. You will also go deeper under the floor level, to a place where most of Polish kings are buried. Their rich sarcophages made of marble are so impressive that you will feel the power of this special place.
You will later make your way to the royal route - Kanonicza and Grodzka Streets - the way that during each celebrations was walked by a king and his court. As the last point of your tour, the guide will take you to St. Mary’s Church located in the corner of Main Market Square. The church has been the main parish of the city since it was built - mid XIII century. Its two towers are a symbol of Kraków. It is known mainly for two things. The first one is inside of it – one of the biggest wooden gothic altars in the world. It was created by Wit Stwosz five centuries ago. The second reason is a legend about a trumpeter who warned the citizens against coming invadors - Tatars. While playing his alarm he was shoot by an arrow. To commemorate a man who sacrificed his life to save the city, until today the melody played every full hour from the higher tower, ends with a broken note. Your tour finishes at the Main Market Square.
We will pick you up from the hotel in our original socialist-style van of historical value, i.e. a Nysa 522. We will take you for a unique trip through the legacy of the Polish socialism. Not only will we see the places connected with it, but we will experience them as well.
We will start with the first square ever to be built especially for the working people, i.e. Constitution Square (Plac Konstytucji). Here you will feel how the propaganda worked in the socialist era. Next we will go towards the seat of the Ministry of Agriculture, where you will have a chance to get to know the utopian plans of the post-war city reconstruction. Our next stop will be the Palace of Culture and Science – a gift from “Uncle” Stalin will reveal its secrets to you.
We will not miss the very heart of socialism, i.e. the old seat of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (in Polish: “Dom Partii” – “The Party's House”). Next stop is in Praga district, where we see the typical housing estate with the longest building in Warsaw.
At the end we will visit the Museum of Life under Communism. Here you will experience a small apartment furnished in socialist style, a communist party member’s office, a shop, a bar and a street from the era. You will see how people used to live and watch propaganda movies of the 1950s. We also kindly invite you for a typical aperitif. In the end of the tour we drop off guests back at the hotel.
Experience the city in a totally new way – sightseeing with a culinary perspective! Great insight into Polish food and the culture of Kraków on a bus and walking tour. Oscypek cheese – made from sheep milk and smoked for two weeks over a highlander bonfire; lisiecka sausage – the favorite meat of Pope John Paul II; Kraków bagels (obwarzanki) – whose recipe has not changed in over five centuries; Polish dumplings – stuffed with meat, cottage cheese, fruit or vegetables. You will taste these and other delicacies during the visits to the specially selected shops, cafes, restaurants or markets. Along with the tastes, we will give you information on the history and architecture of the city.
The tour starts with 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. Then a short drive takes you up the Wawel Hill, which is the embodiment of Poland's former monarchical glory. Its summit is occupied by the Royal Castle and the Wawel Cathedral, a 14th-century cathedral which hosted almost all coronations and funerals of the Polish monarchy. Having descended the Hill, we stroll along Kanonicza and Grodzka Streets to reach Collegium Maius (Great College), the oldest building of the Academia Cracoviensis.
After visiting the charming Gothic courtyard we continue to the Main Market Square – the bustling heart of the city. Complete your tour by visiting St. Mary's Church, where the stunning medieval altar sculpted by Wit Stwosz (Veit Stoss) is located and a bugle call sounds towards the four corners of the world every hour on the hour.
Our tour follows the footsteps of Oskar Schindler, one of the Righteous among the Nations of the World, who during WWII saved the life of 1100 Polish Jews from Krakow. Schindler is most known thanks to the 1993 Steven Spielberg's movie ""Schindler's List"". The tour is a mixture of both history and film.
Our guide will meet you at noon in our Tourist Information office at 8 Plac Szczepanski, 2 minutes of walk from the Main Market Square of Krakow. From there we will walk through the Planty Gardens to see the former house of Oskar Schindler at Straszewskiego St. Then we will continue to Poselska Street depicted in one of the tragic scenes in the movie. Leaving the Old Town of Krakow we will walk to the Kazimierz Jewish Quarter, where the history mixes with the film. We will see the old Jewish ghetto in Szeroka St. - depicted in the movie as the WII Ghetto. We will also see a couple of streets which were portrayed in various scenes: Ciemna, Jakuba, Jozefa, Skawinska and Krakowska Street.
Then we will walk to the other side of the Vistula River to the district of Podgorze. Via Pilsudskiego Bridge we will walk to the historical WWII Ghetto in Krakow-Podgorze, established in March 1941. We will see the Ghetto Heroes Square and couple of streets depicted in the film: Wegierska, Lwowska St. and most important - the remaining part of the original WWII Ghetto wall.
After that we will walk to the Oscar Schindler's Enamel Factory, depicted in the movie. Today it is one of the branches of the Historical Museum of the City of Krakow. There you can take a short break and follow us inside of this very popular and interesting museum where the next tour starts at 4 pm (not included).
Bienvenido al mágico Wroclaw, la ciudad de 100 puentes. Su rica historia y carácter medieval atrae a millones de turistas cada año. La Catedral de San Juan Bautista del siglo XIIV está ubicada en la isla de Ostrow Tumski isla, la parte más antigua de la ciudad. Cruzando el puente sobre el río Odra, ascendemos a la Colina de Polonia, que ofrece una espléndida vista sobre la ciudad. Muy cerca se encuentra el Panorama del Museo de la Batalla de Raclawice que presenta de una de las escenas panorámic
Bienvenido al mágico Wroclaw, la ciudad de 100 puentes. Su rica historia y carácter medieval atrae a millones de turistas cada año. La Catedral de San Juan Bautista del siglo XIIV está ubicada en la isla de Ostrow Tumski isla, la parte más antigua de la ciudad. Cruzando el puente sobre el río Odra, ascendemos a la Colina de Polonia, que ofrece una espléndida vista sobre la ciudad. Muy cerca se encuentra el Panorama del Museo de la Batalla de Raclawice que presenta de una de las escenas panorámicas de 360 grados, más grandes en el mundo, hoy en día uno de los símbolos de la nación. El Aula Leopoldina es el pasillo representativo del barroco. La Plaza del Mercado, una de las mayores de Europa, rodeada por antiguas casas de vecindad con un Ayuntamiento gótico en el centro.
Punto de encuentro: Recogida en hotel.
Duración: 4 horas.
Hora de inicio o apertura: A las 9.00 horas y a las 14.00 horas.
Idiomas: Inglés, español, alemán, francés, italiano, ruso y polaco. Bajo petición: portugués, japonés, chino, sueco, holandés y finlandés.
No incluye: Acceso al Panorama de Raclawice en el Museo Raclawice.
Dictatour is not a usual tour. It is going back through time! Walking down the streets of Nowa Huta with its native citizen (the driver and tour guide in one), you will not only become familiar with its characteristic architecture but you will also listen to interesting stories and learn about the absurdity of the past times.
Nowa Huta – a symbol of the Communist era, established by the then pioneering politicians and leading architects, was founded with a view to creating a perfect city. One can easily notice the symmetry and precision close to that of renaissance buildings. You will set off on a trip in an authentic communist-era car equipped with a tour audio system with a specially arranged commentary. You may stop at any point during the tour, leave the car and take pictures.
Let us take you for an crazy night adventure! We will combine sightseeing with visitig the best Warsaw bars and pubs. Our tour will give you the unique experience of the city we fell in love with! All that in our old communist van Nysa 522!
We will pick you up from your hotel. Having collected the whole crazy team we will start the tour with discovering the tallest skyscraper in Warsaw – the Palace of Culture and Science. Here we will explain you the basics about our history and tell you the mysterious and unbelievable stories about this gift from Uncle Stalin. After those first emotions so we will take you to a nice pub in order to taste delicious Polish beer from a local micro brewery. Our second stop will let us discover Communist city – with huge squares and wide streets. We will show you the difference between the pre-war belle epoque Warsaw and the utopic communist ideas from 1950s. You can’t imagine how huge the difference is! After a short communist indoctrination, you will need a shot of Polish vodka (to recharge the batteries, you will still need a lot of energy).?Later we will take you to the best shot bar in the city, mix with the locals and strangers and most probably you will find a lot of new friends here .
There's one more district that will be visited: Praga. Are you brave enough to go there??A district that in the past used to have bad opinion, right now famous for alternative culture and notorius for petty thiefs. The only one which was not destroyed in 1944. Finally, the 3hour tour will take us to the most alternative pub in Warsaw! Here you will have another possibility to try delicious polish vodka. After the stop in the last pub we will drive you safely back to your hotel or leave you in a disco club, where we can offer You a free entrance.
Administrative Centre (Centrum Administracyjne) and start the tour with a short description of the place which is called by local residents ‘the Doge’s Palace’, ‘the Vatican’ or even ‘the Pentagon’. Continue your adventure by going by the local tram to the Central Square, beautifully equipped with the propaganda architecture and social realist art of the 1950s and 60s.
On the Avenue of Roses (al. Roz), come closer to the place where a huge statue of Lenin used to stand majestically before it was finally pulled down. Walk a few steps to the local Cultural Centre to see a huge map of the whole, new-erected city. Try to imagine the big, socialistic Town Hall and enormous Main Square, two monuments that were never built, but were planned to be ten times bigger than their counterparts in Krakow.
Learn a little about the history before moving on to satisfy your stomach! Stop and drink a glass of vodka in a typical Communist bar and after that, feeling as spirited as former Steelworkers who frequented the bar, continue on to see the legendry Nowa Huta Cross connected with 1960 anti-communist and anti-police riots. Stroll over to what could be considered the real cultural heart of the town - The People’s Theatre inaugurated in 1955 and consider to be the best experimental theatre, famous of many prominent directors and great actors.
Finish the tour by visiting the Lord’s Ark (Arka Pana) – the first ever church of the Nowa Huta district to be built after WWII - symbol of massacres conducted by the ZOMO troops, numerous demonstrations of Solidarity and the unity of the whole Christian world in fighting against communist system. You’ll finish your tour with a new understanding of life in Krakow’s Communist era, and a new appreciation for the history of this region.
Las maravillosas Minas de Sal de Wieliczka son una de las más preciadas y fascinantes de Polonia. Únete a nosotros y descubre toda una deslumbrante ciudad subterránea de sal con esta visita a las laberínticas Minas de Sal de Wieliczka.
Destacamos
- Diferentes rutas con un total de 245 kilómetros de longitud
- Descubre recovecos, galerías y cámaras con vestigios del pasado
- Visita una colección única en el mayor museo minero del mundo
Este impresionante Patrimonio de la Humanidad se prolonga a lo largo de nueve niveles llegando a una profundidad de 327 metros bajo tierra. Las casi 2.400 cámaras existentes se interconectan las unas con las otras a través de diversas rutas cuya longitud alcanza la friolera de 245km. El recorrido incluye también la visita a uno de los mayores museos al aire libre del mundo dedicados a la minería, donde se extraía este “oro blanco”.
La Antigua mina, de 700 años de edad, se encuentra a pocos kilómetros al sur de Cracovia y cuenta con más de 300 kilómetros de túneles escalofriantes, cavados todos ellos a mano en los bloques de sal, aunque sólo algunos de ellos se pueden visitar. Los diversos pasadizos subterráneos te conducen a través de numerosos recovecos, galerías y cámaras en las que se conservan vestigios de la antigua actividad minera, además de ejemplos de arte sagrado y composiciones temáticas ligadas a la historia minera y a sus leyendas. Admira la imponente capilla St King y déjate sorprender por todos y cada uno de sus detalles, desde los candelabros hasta el mismísimo altar, hechos enteramente de sal.
Wieliczka es, en sí misma, el mayor museo minero del mundo e incluye una colección que abarca piezas únicas de equipos mineros que reflejan fielmente el desarrollo de las técnicas de minería desde la Edad Media hasta nuestros días. Es más, el microclima del interior de la mina tiene efectos muy positivos para todas aquellas personas que padecen asma y alergias.