Poland

POLAND

TRAVEL INFORMATION

Date of travel April 1987

Poland

Travel itineray

Kracow
Zakopane
Auschwitz
The trip

Krakow

Krakow is situated on the Vistula River, in the southern area of the Lesser Poland Region (Maopolskal). The city has been for a long time the capital of the country, and today still remains one of the largest Polish cities.
The city's historic centre was added to the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites in 1978.
Krakow preserves the Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architecture of the Old City (Stare Miasto) that witnesses the long and glorious history of the city. The Main Market Square is located in the centre medieval town, is is the largest medieval square in Europe, 200 meters each side, surrounded with beautiful buildings dated back from the XVII and XVIII centuries, the City Hall Tower, Sukiennice Cloth Hall and the St. Mary Basilica.

Krakow's Coat of Arms

The St. Mary Basilica is situated on the east side of the Main Market Square, Rynek Gówny.
The first church that was built in this place was erected in the XIII century. After its destruction during the invasions of the Tartars, the actual church was built in Gothic style on the foundations of the original one.

Zakopane

Zakopane, the Polish winter capital, is located at the feet of the Tatra mountains at almost 1000 meters of altitude.

Zakopane's Coat of Arms

Auschwitz

The concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz is a place devoted to the memory of the victims that were killed there.
In this place the most horrendous crimes of the holocaust have been perpetrated.

The trip