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Day 1 — Warsaw
Arrival in Warsaw, individual check-in at the hotel.
Meeting in the lobby of Novotel Centrum Hotel. Welcome dinner at local restaurant. Overnight at hotel.
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Day 2 — Warsaw
After breakfast, depart for a city tour of Warsaw including the Old Town, the ghetto Memorial and the Wilanów Palace one of Poland's most treasured palaces, often hailed as the “Polish Versailles.” Set among remarkable English and French gardens, the palace is filled with treasures of the Italian, French and Polish Baroque. Dinner. Overnight in Warsaw.
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Day 3 — Warsaw/Częstochowa/Zakopane
After breakfast, departure to Częstochowa; visit Jasna Góra Monastery. Lunch in Częstochowa. Overnight in Zakopane.
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Day 4 — Kalwaria Zebrzydowska/Wadowice
Visit Kalwaria Zebrzydowska with the Bernardine monastery and the famous Calvary paths along which more than 40 structures have been built; churches, chaples, wayside shrines and bridges. Onwards to Wadowice, home town of Pope John II, visiting the Holy Fathers’s house, now a museum, and his home parish church.
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Day 5 — Zakopane
After breakfast, tour of Zakopane and funicular ride to Gubałówka Hill. Afternoon at leisure. Dinner with folklore show. Overnight in Zakopane.
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Day 6 — Zakopane/Wieliczka/Łagiewniki/Kraków
After breakfast, drive to Kraków, en-route visit to Wieliczka Salt Mine - a unique underground world of salt galleries and chambers. After lunch visit to Łagiewniki Congregation of Sisters of the Divine Mother of Mercy where there is a tomb of Sister Faustina, who was canonized by the Pope in 2000. Overnight in Kraków.
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Day 7 — Kraków
After breakfast, discover the beauty of Kraków, the ancient capital of Poland. See the Royal Castle and the Cathedral on the Wawel Hill, the place where Polish kings were crowned and buried. See St. Mary's Church and the wooden hand carved (by Wit Stwosz) altar. It was made in the 15th century and is Europe's largest wooden Gothic altar. We visit also Market Square with the Cloth Hall.
Afternoon at leisure. Dinner. Overnight in Krakow.
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Day 8 — Kraków/Oświęcim/Warsaw
After breakfast, departure for Warsaw. En-route visit to Aushwitz - former Nazi concentration camp.
Dinner with folklore show. Overnight in Warsaw.
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Day 9 — Warsaw
After breakfast, individual departures.
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Hotels:
Nowotel Centrum — Warszawa, Patria — Częstochowa, Mercure Kasprowy — Zakopane, Novotel Bronowice or similar — Kraków
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