3-Day Krakow Guided Tour: Jewish Heritage with Wieliczka and Auschwitz

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Krakow: Jewish district Kazimierz & Schindler's Factory
6 stops
1
Szeroka Street
Visit the Kazimierz district - this is where Jewish culture once flourished, the preserved traces of which have survived to this day. Szeroka Street is the center of old Jewish culture, where you can see old synagogues, palaces and majestic houses from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
30 minutes • Admission ticket free
2
Remuh Synagogue (Synagoga Remuh)
The Remuh Synagogue is the second oldest Jewish prayer house in Kraków. The synagogue and the adjacent cemetery form a unique and priceless complex of Jewish architecture and sacred art.
15 minutes • Admission ticket not included
3
Market Square
Plac Nowy, today a popular meeting place and festival venue, was once known as Plac Żydowski. In 1900, a circular pavilion was erected in the middle of the square, with small grocery and butcher shops, and a fast-food bar with delicious casseroles, famous today in Krakow. On weekdays, the square is filled with stalls selling vegetables and antiques. On Sunday mornings it turns into a busy clothing market. The whole square is surrounded by cafés and pubs popular in the city, which on warm summer nights spill over the square and form one giant beer garden.
20 minutes • Admission ticket free
4
Corpus Christi Church (Kosciol Bozego Ciala)
The Corpus Christi Church is distinguished by its size, importance and architecture. Its beauty is best shown in the interior of the temple, where the gothic stone walls harmonize with the gold of the baroque.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free
5
Father Bernatek Footbridge
The Father Bernatek Footbridge is a unique place in Podgórze, built in 2010 on the site of the former Podgórze bridge, it connects Kazimierz with Podgórze.
10 minutes • Admission ticket free
6
Fabryka Emalia Oskara Schindlera
During the tour and thanks to it: - You will learn facts from the history of World War II through their impact on the everyday life of ordinary people in multicultural Krakow. - You will see the real headquarters of Deutsche Emailwarenfabrik and hear about its owner, Oskar Schindler - an entrepreneur, known from the Oscar-winning Spielberg film, who saved many of his employees from inevitable death. - The heroic deed of Oskar Schindler resembles his office, happily preserved in the factory administration building, which houses a symbolic "ark of survivors" made of thousands of pots, like those made by his employees during the war. - Thanks to the modern multimedia installation, you will walk along the cobbled streets of the city, enter the photographer's atelier, look at the hairdresser, get on the tram, as well as see a typical apartment in the Jewish ghetto, and then find yourself with its inhabitants in the Płaszów camp... and more
1 hour 30 minutes • Admission ticket included
Day 2
Krakow: Wieliczka Salt Mine & Plaszow CC
2 stops
7
Wieliczka Salt Mine
It is definitely worth a visit! Ballroom, concert hall, art gallery, shrine - all made of salt and located underground. The tourist route through the Wieliczka Mine passes by chambers and drifts, salt and wooden chapels, brine lakes, and around you there are breathtaking views. The walk resembles an expedition not only deep into the Earth, but also into the depths of history. Mining machines, tools, traces of manual salt extraction - all this fits into the story of people and the place that they have created over the centuries. The sacred places of the mine, including the delightful chapel of St. Kinga, create a unique, unique in Europe, and perhaps in the world, underground pilgrimage route.
4 hours • Admission ticket included
8
We will go by tram to Płaszów to see the authentic site of the former concentration camp (also known from the film about Schindler). In front of us are the remains of the camp railway station and warehouses, the building of the officers' club, the site of the camp gate, administrative buildings and barracks, the ruins of the Jewish pre-funeral hall, the camp torture house, the camp commandant's villa, the place of execution and the Płaszów Camp Memorial Site.
2 hours • Admission ticket free
Day 3
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum from Krakow
1 stop
9
Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
The program will be concluded with a visit to the notorious former concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Driving from Krakow will take us about 1.5 hours. On site, during an over 3-hour walking tour with a local guide, we will see the authentic places where millions of prisoners lived and died - victims of human cruelty. Prison barracks, walls of death, assembly squares, unloading ramps, the ruins of crematoria, personal belongings and documents are silent witnesses of those events and today they are supposed to bear the memory of them never again. Return to Krakow will take place in the evening.
7 hours • Admission ticket included

Additional info

• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness

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