11 Days Tailor Made Germany & Poland Tour Package

11 Days Tailor Made Germany & Poland Tour Package

Duration: 11 Days / 10 Nights
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In Berlin, see the Brandenburg Gate and Jewish Holocaust Memorial. View Dresden's treasures and sample local wines at Wackerbarth Manor. In Kraków, whose historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, see Pope John Paul II's church and Oskar Schindler's factory. In Czestochowa, view the Black Madonna, Poland's holiest icon.

Tour Itinerary

Days 1-3: Berlin

Arrive in Berlin and transfer to the historic Hotel Adlon Kempinski. Take a short walking tour of the Brandenburg Gate area. Continue by car to the Reichstag and Potsdamer Platz, where East and West were reunited; then visit Checkpoint Charlie and the Checkpoint Charlie Museum. In the city's outskirts journey to the House of the Wannsee Conference and Liebermann Villa. Travel to Potsdam and stroll through the Sanssouci Gardens and Palace. Then stop at the Cecilienhof Palace where Truman, Stalin and Churchill signed the Potsdam Agreement in 1945.

Days 4-5: Dresden

Before leaving Berlin, visit the Jewish Museum, the New Berlin Synagogue and the recently unveiled Jewish Memorial to victims of the Holocaust. Alternatively, privately visit Europe's largest synagogue. Transfer to the Kempinski Hotel Taschenbergpalais in Dresden. Explore the city to see the Baroque Zwinger Palace, housing Raphael's Sistine Madonna, the Dresden Royal Palace and its New Green Vault. Travel into Saxony to visit vineyards around Wackerbarth Manor and sample local wines.

Days 6-8: Krakow

Fly to Kraków and check in to the Sheraton Krakow Hotel. Embark on a full-Day tour of this city, one of UNESCO's 12 great historic cities of the world. Visit the Royal Castle and Cathedral, the main church of the former Cardinal Wojtyls who became the late Pope John Paul II; the fascinating Galicia Jewish Museum and Oskar Schindler's factory. At Auschwitz- Birkenau, pause to remember the four million victims of this Nazi concentration camp.

Days 9-10: Warsaw

Stop in Czestochowa to visit the Pauline Monastery of Jasna Gora, which houses the 15th-century painting Black Madonna, the holiest icon in Poland. Continue to your boutique hotel in Warsaw, Le Regina. Visit the most important sights of Jewish Warsaw: the former Jewish ghetto, the Nozyk Synagogue, the Jewish Theater, the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto and the Umschlagplatz Wall Monument. This evening, attend a private Chopin piano concert.

Day 11:

Transfer privately to the Warsaw airport.