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Tricity, Kaszuby region
and masurian lakes tour

DAY 1: WARSAW-TORUN
Arrival into Warsaw airport, motorcoach transfer to Torun. Hotel accomodation, dinner and overnight.

DAY 2: TORUN
Full-day city tour of Torun (one of the most magnificent historic cities in Poland) including the Old Town, St. John The Baptist Church, St.Mary's Church, Townahall, Copernicus Museum, ruins of the Teutonic Castle, the New Town. Lunch in restaurant. Dinner and overnight.

DAY 3: TORUN-CHELMNO-MALBORK-GDANSK
Morning departure to Chelmno, guided tour of the city including the Old Town, Gothic-Renaissance Town Hall (one of the most beautiful buildings of the Renaissance arts in Poland; erected in the years 1567-1572 in the place of an earlier town hall built in the Gothic style about 1298), the former Cistercian - Benedictine Monastic Complex. Drive to Malbork-guided tour of the Teutonic Castle. Drive to Gdansk, hotel accomodation, dinner and overnight.

DAY 4: GDANSK
Full-day city tour including the Main Town (Towanhall and town museum, St.Marys' Church, Long Market, patrician houses, Maritime Museum, the Old Town: Towhall, mill, St.Cathrine's Church, St.
Dinner and overnight.

DAY 5: GDANSK-KARTUZY-OSTRZYCE-CHMIELNO-WDZYDZE KISZEWSKIE-GDANSK
Full-day excursion into a beautiful Kaszuby Region.
Drive to Kartuzy, visit to the Kashubian Regional Museum housing some of the intricacies of Kashubian domestic, cultural and religious traditions. Drive to Ostrzyce, a village near Kartuzy, located on a long Ostrzyckie lake shaped like “c” letter. Lunch en route. Drive to Chmielno, a village known for its more than a hundred-year-old potter's workshop of the Necel family and the Museum of Kashubian Pottery. Stop in Wdzydze Kiszewskie with the oldest in Poland ethnographical open-air musem, picturesquely located in the Wdzydze Landscape Park. The skansen includes buildings collected from the central and southern Kashubia region. Evening arrival into Gdansk, dinner at the hotel, overnight.

DAY 6: GDANSK
Half-day city tour of Gdansk including Gdansk shipyard with Solidariety Monument, short visit to Twierdza Wisloujscie, Westerplatte Peninsula, Oliwa Cathedral with an organ concert. Afternoon at leisure. Dinner and overnight.

DAY 7: GDANSK-ELBLAG-FROMBORK-MORAG-OLSZTYN

Morning drive to Elblag-visit to the Old Town, Targowa Gate , St.Mary's Church, St. Nicolas Cathedral, post-Dominican monastery dating back to the 13th century. Drive to Frombork-where Nicolaus Copernicus created his revolutionary work '' De Revolutionibus'' and where he died in 1543. Visit to the Copernicus Hill with Cathedral dating back to the 13th century adn Copernicus Tower, where the great astronomer used to work and live. He also died here and was buried in the underground crypt.
Drive to Morag-visit to the Teutonic Castle (or the Regional Museum housing works by J.G Herder, a German humanist and philosopher and poet). Drive to Olsztyn, hotel accomodation, dinner and overnight.

DAY 8: OLSZTYN-LIDZBARK WARMINSKI-RESZEL-SWIETA LIPKA-KETRZYN-GIERLOZ-MRAGOWO-OLSZTYN

Morning walking tour of the Old Town, the Warmia Cathedral, (optional: visit to the Castle dating back to the 14th century), fortification walls.
Drive to Lidzbark Warminski, founded in 1240, in the Renaissance epoch it become an important intellectual cenre, where Copernicus lived between 1506-1512. Visit to the Teutonic Castle, a precious example of Medieval Gothic architecture with internal courtyard, arcades and frescoes dating back to the 14th century in official rooms. Drive to Reszel-short visit of the Gothic Castle. Drive to Swieta Lipka-visit to the monastery complex which includes the Baroque church of the Blessed Virgin Mary dating from the 17th century, and considered to be one of the best examples of sacral architecture in Northern Poland. The richly furnished interior houses the works of many outstanding artists. Organ concerts are organized in this church. Swieta Lipka is a religious center and a place of pilgrimage. Drive to Gierloz-visit to the ''Wolf's Lair''-Hitler's war-time headquarters, located in the woods of Gierloz, 8 km East of Ketrzyn. It consisted of a group of 80 strong bunkers built in the years 1940-44, a small railway station and an airfield; it had a direct telephone link with Berlin. In eight of the bunkers the thickness of the walls was from 1 to 6 m., and the thickness of the roof from 6 to 8 m. Hitler's headquarters was exceptionally carefully guarded. It was surrounded by a belt of minefields, with anti-aircraft gun emplacements; the buildings were camouflaged with nets holding imitation foliage, the colour of which was changed from season to season. Hitler used this headquarters from 24 June 1941 to 20 November 1944, although he was not of course constantly in residence there. It was here that on 20 July 1944 Colonel Claus v. Stauffenberg made his unsuccessful attempt on Hitler's life. "The Wolf's Lair" was destroyed by the German army as it withdrew in late January 1945. Stop in Mragowo. Drive back to Olsztyn, dinner and overnight.

DAY 9: OLSZTYN-OLSZTYNEK-NIDZICA-WARSZAWA

Morning drive to Olsztynek, visit to the oldest skansen in Poland. Drive to Nidzica-visit of the Gothic castle built by Teutonic Knights at the end of 14th century. The chapel inside the castle is known for its precious Gothic frescoes. Drive to Warsaw, hotel accomodation, dinner and overnight.

DAY 10: WARSAW
Full-day sightseeing tour of Warsaw including the Old Town-the Castle Square, King Sigismund III Waza Column, the Royal Castle, St.John’s Cathedral, St.Anna’s Church. Afternoon visit to the Łazienki Park where the famous statue of Chopin is located and to the Wilanow palace-former royal summer residence.

DAY 11: WARSAW
Transfer to the airport for the return flight to......
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