Breakfast and we continue to the capital Warsaw with a stop in the city of Czestochowa where we will visit the famous monastery on the "shining hill" where the miraculous icon of the "Black Virgin" is kept from the 14th century that arrived here from Constantinople ! We continue to Krakow. Arrival and transfer to the hotel,arranging rooms. At night, after the first acquaintance with the old city ,we offer you dinner in a traditional restaurant with cuisine from the Carpathian mountains accompanied by violins .

Breakfast. Today we will tour the old town of Krakow world heritage site the whole city from 1979. It was never bombed and impresses with its Renaissance architecture , the monasteries, the university buildings and the unique market square with dimensions 200 x 200 meters ! After the palace that dominates the hill of Babel and the Cathedral with the tombs of the Polish kings ,we will visit the Franciscan church with the unique stained glass windows of Stanisław Wyspianski in art nouveau rhythm. We continue to the Jagiellonian University and the central square with the old textile market and after stopping at the wonderful Wedel chocolate shop we walk along the shopping street Florianska where the historical artistic cafe Yama Michalika. Finally, we left the Opera House and the part of the old wall with the Florianska Gate and the shopping street of the same name. Departure for Wieliczka with its salt mines, which operate here and 700 years and are included in the UNESCO world heritage sites. They are the largest salt mines in Europe that today function as a museum and have more than 1.100.000 visitors per year . Churches ,restaurants, Lakes, works of art , statues, banqueting and concert halls we will meet along the way, all carved in salt !.Return to Krakow, dinner at a local microbrewery with guts and fresh beer !For the evening we suggest entertainment in one of the dozens of jazz bars in the historic city where one in three residents is a student.

Today we offer you a unique excursion to the mountain town of Zakopane in the Carpathian mountains. At a distance 110 km from Krakow we will find ourselves in an Alpine landscape with the typical architecture and picturesque wooden churches, the traditional cuisine with the wonderful cheeses, the music and environment of the mountain dwellers . We will see the Olympic ski jumping facilities and of course enjoy the main Krupovki pedestrian street with its non-stop traffic before taking the cable car up to the cosmopolitan Gumbalovka slope with its unique views and impressive grills . Return to Krakow and a short visit to the Jewish quarter of Kazimierz with its synagogues, the houses of the old urban Jewish families and the bohemian atmosphere created by the dozens of bars today.

Breakfast and we continue to beautiful Vienna with a stop at Auschwitz. There we will see up close the German POW concentration camps during the 2nd world war, the extermination camp Birkenau as well as the museum with the documents. Arrival in Vienna. Panoramic tour of the city to see, among others, the famous Opera House, the neoclassical Parliament , the neo-Gothic Town Hall , the imperial gardens , the Hofburg Palace complex , the natural history museum . In the continuation we will walk the Greek neighborhood in the historical center before reaching the cathedral of Ag. Stefanou and the wonderful pedestrian streets with shops and famous Viennese cafes such as Demel and Sacher Transfer to the hotel ,arranging rooms.

Breakfast and transfer to the airport for the return flight directly to Athens

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