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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