Explore some of the most beautiful cities in Eastern Europe and visit their famous landmarks. During this 8 day tour, you will see impressive architecture, stunning landscapes and learn about some of the history of these important cities.
TOUR INCLUDES:
- 7 nights with breakfast in hotels
- Exclusive bus for the whole trip, with all the expenses of the driver included
- Tickets to the Castle in Prague, Library and Schönbrunn in Austria, Church of St. Mary, a synagogue in the Jewish district Kazimierz and Salt Mine in Krakow, Auschwitz, and Aula Leopoldina in Wroclaw
- Danube cruise in Prague with dinner included
- Local guides: half day in Dresde, full day in Prague, half day in Vienna, half day in Krakow, Auschwitz and half day in Wroclaw
- FORCIO guide for the entire tour
Program
Day 1: Berlin-Liberec-Prague.
We will meet our guide and depart from Berlin.
On the way we will see Liberec, a typical city of the Czech Republic, that has lots of attractions, which make it a very interesting and beautiful city to visit. Being outside of the traditional tourist areas, we will be able to get a better idea of what the lifestyle and people of this Central European country are like. Time for lunch. We will continue our journey and pass through the Czech Republic. Beautiful landscapes of hills and forests on route. Arrival in Prague in the afternoon.
Stay overnight.
Day 2: Prague.
Breakfast. We will start our full day visit. We will do a full day Prague City Tour. The official guide (included) will show us the Prague Castle (entrance included), considered the largest medieval fortress in the world. Inside the Castle we find the Cathedral of St. Vitus, the largest Gothic work in Prague, a monument built over 6 centuries. We will see the Callejón del Oro, this short and narrow street named after the goldsmiths who inhabited it in the 17th century, is located inside the castle. In one of his houses lived Kafka. Then we will see the Prague Astronomical Clock, the most famous medieval clock in the world, in the Old Town Hall Tower, the Charles Bridge, the St. Nicholas Church in the Old Town, the Powder Tower and the Prasna Brana Tower.
In the afternoon we will take a boat trip on the Vltava river of approx. 2 hours, including dinner.
Stay overnight.
Day 3: Prague -Cesky Krumlov- Vienna.
Breakfast. We leave at 08:30 to enter the region of Bohemia. Pleasant landscapes and beautiful historic villages. At 11.00 we will reach Cesky Krumlov, a fantastically preserved medieval town; Its walls, its pedestrian streets, its small restaurants, the river-canyon protecting the castle; will undoubtedly leave an unforgettable memory.
After lunch we continue our trip to Austria.
Arrival in Vienna in the late afternoon. Stay overnight.
Day 4: Vienna.
Breakfast. At 09.00 panoramic tour with local guide (included) of the city. During the tour you can admire incredible buildings such as the Vienna State Opera (the most famous in the world), the Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Natural Sciences, the Hofburg Palace (Imperial Winter Residence), the Austrian Parliament, the Vienna Townhall, the Museum of Applied Arts (MAK), the Votive Church or the National Theater. We end the tor at the stately avenue Ringstrasse, where the symbol of the city, the cathedral of Stephansdom stands. Time to eat.
In the afternoon we will see the Schönbrunn Palace (entrance included) also known as the Viennese Versailles. It is one of the main historical and cultural buildings of Austria and since the 19th century has been one of the main tourist attractions of the city of Vienna. It has appeared In postcards, documentaries and various films.
Stay overnight.
Day 5: Vienna – Bratislava – Krakow
Breakfast. At 09:00 we will leave the Hotel and travel to Poland. On our way, we pass through Bratislava, capital of Slovakia and a city next to the Danube with an attractive historical nucleus. Time to get to see the city and have lunch.
Arrival in Krakow in the afternoon, stay overnight.
Day 6: Krakow
Breakfast. At 09.00 in the morning we will do a tour of the city of Krakow with local guide (included). Krakow’s Old Town preserves beautiful Gothic, Baroque and Renaissance buildings due to the fact that it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The entrance to the Church of Santa Maria and to one of the synagogues of the Jewish district Kazimierz is included. Time for lunch.
In the afternoon we go to the Salt Mine Wieliczka, one of the oldest salt mines in the world that has been continuously exploited from the 13th century until today. The mines, which have the nickname “underground cathedral of Poland salt”, are 327 kilometres deep and 300 kilometres long. They have labyrinthine galleries along them that are chambers and chapels with beautiful Sculpted figures illustrating the history of salt mining.
Day 7: Krakow – Auschwitz – Wroclaw
Breakfast. At 0900 in the morning we head to the former Auschwitz concentration camp, which was the largest extermination center in the history of Nazism. It is estimated that about one million three hundred thousand people were sent here, of which one million one hundred thousand died, the majority of them Jews (90%, approximately one million), prisoners of war, etc. (Guided tour included)
Then we will continue our trip to Wroclaw (or Breslavia in Castilian), and arrive in the afternoon.
Day 8: Wroclaw – Berlin
Breakfast. At 10:00 in the morning we will do a city tour with a local guide (included). Wroclaw is also called the Venice of Poland, the city of twelve islands, joined together by twelve hundred bridges. This town has preserved to this day such pearls of medieval architecture as, for example, the Town Hall – a splendid building of the Gothic style, or Leopoldina Hall (entrance included), which is the largest Barque style construction in Poland. In the seventeenth century this building housed the University.
After lunch we will return to Berlin.
