Wieliczka Salt Mine

This deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka has been mined since the 13th century. Spread over nine levels, it has 300 km of galleries with works of art, altars, and statues sculpted in the salt. The tourist route starts 64 m deep and ends 135 m below the earth’s surface, where the world's biggest mining museum is located with the unique historic equipment among its exhibits.

It also features beautifully carved chambers, chapels, an underground lake, and exhibits from the history of salt mining. The mine is justly referred to as "the underground salt cathedral of Poland."

UNESCO has entered the Wieliczka Salt Mine in its World Heritage Register. Salt Mine in Wieliczka is situated about ten kilometers from the center of Krakow The mine is visited by about 1.2 million people each year.

Auschwitz Birkenau

Auschwitz-Birkenau, German Nazi’s largest concentration and extermination camp facility, was located nearby the provincial Polish town, Oswiecim, Galacia. It was established by the order of Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler on 27 April 1940.

Auschwitz-Birkenau became a killing centre, where the largest number of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. After an experimental gassing, in September 1941, of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews, using Zyklon-B, began at Auschwitz, where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with estimates running as high as three million people killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning ...

Site of the Nazi’s notorious Auschwitz death camp is an hour’s drive from Krakow.

Every year about 500,000 visitors come to Oswiecim

Wadowice Tour

Wadowice is a town in southern Poland, 50km from Krakow. Wadowice was the birthplace of Pope John Paul II (1920).

This exhibition is to illustrate and commemorate John Paul II’s life and his work in Poland, until the moment he left Krakow for the conclave in Rome in 1978. In the room where Karol Wojtyła was born and lived until 1938, as well as in the kitchen, a few items of the remaining furniture were collected. In the other rooms, there are glass cases which contain Karol Wojtyła’s documents, either original or copies, objects, manuscripts and works published before October 16, 1978.On the walls there are some photographs connected with Karol Wojtyła himself and places he frequently visited. The exhibition shows also some books about John Paul II’s life published in many countries all around the world.

Sanctuary of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska Near Krakow

In 1600 Poland’s first Calvary sanctuary was established in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, a town in the Carpathian Foothills 33 km southwest of Krakow, to provide pilgrims with a substitute of Jerusalem lost to the Muslim Turks and thus unavailable. With its 42 churches and chapels of all shapes and sizes, in addition to the central basilica and the Franciscan monastery, the vast complex of buildings scattered among woods on the slopes of the 527-meter-high Zar mountain, grew to be the biggest such compound in Europe. It is also Poland’s second most important historic destination for pilgrims and Europe's biggest Calvary shrine.

Kalwaria Zebrzydowska was inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List on 1st December 1999 as the only Calvary in the world.

Nearly a million pilgrims come to see Our Lady of Calvary every year.

Zakopane Tour

Zakopane district is considered the most attractive tourist region in Poland. The Tatras, the hills of Podhale as well as the town itself are ideal places for either longer or shorter hikes.

The further to the south the more hilly the landscape becomes until you get to Zakopane, located 1000 m above the sea level and surrounded by Tatra Mountains ( Rysy Mountain - 2.400m above the sea level ).

Funicular to Gubałówka hill gives a beautiful view over Polish and Czech Tatras. A walk along crowded Krupówki Street or among old wooden houses provides also many attractions. For good walkers we suggest stroll in picturesque valleys.

A wide range of restaurants provide not only meals, including local specialities, but also the accompaniment of folklore music.

About 3 million people visit the Zakopane each year.