8 days / 7 nights
Kraków - Divine Mercy Sanctuary
Day 1  Cracow
Krakow - Main Market Square (Rynek)
Meeting your guide at the Balice Airport and transfer to the hotel. Check-in and time to relax. Short orientation walk through the Market Square. Welcome dinner at a local restaurant.
D/O Cracow
Day 2  Cracow
Kraków - Divine Mercy Sanctuary
Morning: sightseeing tour including the Main Market
Square with the Cloth Hall, St. Mary's Church and Wawel Cathedral with
Royal tombs. Afternoon: visit to the Congregation of Sisters of the
Divine Mother of Mercy in Lagiewniki, where there is the tomb of Sister
Faustina, she also worked and died there. Private function of Holy Mass. Dinner.
D/O Cracow
Day 3  Cracow - Wieliczka - Cracow
Wieliczka - Salt Mine
Morning: visit to the famous Salt Mine in Wieliczka, one of the oldest salt mines listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Monument. Afternoon - time at leisure.
D/O Cracow
Day 4  Cracow - Kalwaria Z. - Wadowice - Oswiecim - Czestochowa
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska - Franciscan Monastery Auschwitz - Birkenau Museum
After breakfast full day excursion of unique and
unforgettable experience. It starts in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska where there
is a Bernadine Monastery, place where in the 1658 the picture of the
Mother of God with an Infant was recognised as Famous for miracles.
South of the monastery there is the famous Calvary that imitates the
topography of Jerusalem. There is a number of chapels, shrines and
bridges, altogether over 40 structures built along the paths. Next
continue to Wadowice - the birthplace of the Pope John Paul II, visit to
the Pope's house, which is now a museum. Then continue to Auschwitz -
former Nazi concentration camp, now preserved as a museum. Arrival to
Czestochowa for dinner.
Optional: evening walk to the Monastery.
D/O Czestochowa
Day 5  Czestochowa - Swinice Warckie - Glogowiec - Warsaw
Czestochowa - Black Madonna Icon
Czestochowa is the most important pilgrimage centre in
Poland and it receives thousands of visitors every year. Sightseeing of
the majestic complex of the Basilica, Treasure House and the Chapel of
the Black Madonna with the famous Icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Holy
Mass. Departure to Warsaw En route visit to places connected with life
of Sister Faustina Kowalska: to Swinice Warckie where she was baptised
and Glogowiec - her birthplace. Arrival to Warsaw at late afternoon. Check - in, dinner at the hotel.
D/O Warsaw
Day 6  Warsaw
Warszawa - Royal Castle
Morning : sightseeing tour of Warsaw including the
picturesque Old Town, the Cathedral, and the Royal Route includind visit
to the house of the Congregation of the Divine Mother of Mercy on
Zytnia Street. Afternoon - time at leisure for shopping etc.
D/O Warsaw
Day 7  Warsaw - Niepokalanow - Plock - Warsaw
Niepokalanów
After breakfast departure for Niepokalanow. Visit to St.
Maximilian Kolbe, who was brutally murdered in Auschwitz concentration
camp. Holy Mass in Niepokalanow. Afternoon: drive to Plock to visit
the cathedral church from 12th century, the Benedictine Abbey dated to
10th century, and the house of the Congregation in Plock. It is where
Faustina Kowalska worked and where she received the first message from
Jesus of Mercy in 1931. Return to hotel for dinner.
D/O Warsaw
Day 8  Warsaw
Early breakfast, check - out and coach transfer to Warsaw Airport. Departure.
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