Poland

Meeting with coach at agreed place and departure. Arrival in Graz and accommodation in reserved rooms, dinner and overnight stay.

Breakfast at the hotel. Meet with your guide and two hours of sightseeing in the city, which boasts a UNESCO-listed historic center and the title of European Capital of Culture in 2003. You will tour the city on foot through the narrow streets of the old town, until you reach the hill on which the Schlossberg fortress stands. Lunch in a restaurant and departure for Poland.
Arrival in the evening in Krakow. Dinner and overnight stay in hotel.

Breakfast at hotel. Meeting with guide and city tour: the Wawel Hill with the Cathedral, the Market Square, the Basilica of St. Mary the Virgin with the beautiful wooden altar carved by Veit Stoss in the 15th century, the College Maius of the Jagiellonian University, St. Florian's Gate flanked by the imposing Barbican Fortress.
Lunch in a restaurant during the visit. Dinner and overnight stay in hotel.

Breakfast at the hotel and depart for a visit to Auschwitz/Birkenau. The complex is located about 60 kilometers from Krakow and is infamous for its role in the Nazi regime's plans for the "final solution of the Jewish question." Today Auschwitz-Birkenau is a World Heritage Site and a Memorial to all deportees. At the end of the visit lunch in a restaurant and departure for Wadowice. Ever since October 16, 1978, the day Karol Jozef Wojtyla became Pope under the name John Paul II, tiny Wadowice suddenly became a tourist town, with one building monopolizing the attention of thousands of pilgrims from all over Poland, but also from the rest of the world: the pontiff's birthplace. In addition to the pope's former home and museum, the K. Wojtyla Route also leads to the Plac Jana Pawla II basilica, a parish church finished in the mid-14th century, the shrine of St. Joseph and the Carmelite nuns, the distinctive St. Peter's Church, the future pope's schools and other 19th-century buildings in the small and pretty center. At the end of the visits, return to Kraków for dinner and overnight.

Breakfast at hotel. Depart for Wieliczka for a visit to the oldest rock salt mine in Europe, listed by UNESCO as one of the world's top 12 attractions. On-site meeting with local guide - including entrance fee.
Lunch in a restaurant in Wieliczka and return to Krakow. Possibility to visit the Shrine of Divine Mercy consecrated by Pope Wojtyla during his last trip to Poland in 2002.
Dinner in a typical restaurant in Kraków and overnight stay in hotel.

Breakfast at hotel and departure for Czestochowa-the most important spiritual center in Poland. Visit the Shrine of the Black Madonna in Jasna Gora with local Italian-speaking guide. Entrance fee included in the price of the guide.
At the end of the visit lunch in a restaurant. In the afternoon free time available to participants for times of prayer and personal visits.
Dinner and overnight stay in Czestochowa.

Breakfast at the hotel and departure for Slovakia. Arrival in Bratislava and lunch in a restaurant. Afternoon tour with local guide of the historic center of the Slovak capital. Dinner and overnight stay in hotel.

After breakfast at the hotel travel back to Italy. Stop and free lunch along the way. Arrival at destination expected in the evening.