KRAKOW, POLAND
Nov 6-11,
2006
(Porter's Pub / Arawjo Tours)
(borrowed
image)
City Tour starts in Jewish Square / Szeroka Street
Old Synagogue with old city wall
Memorial Active
Synagogue
Famous Ariel Cafe ( Jewish music and food)
(Borrowed
Postcard mage)
Schindler's Factory
City Tour continues at
(borrowed postcard image above)
Jack and Tom / Exterior Gardens
Cathedral Center /
Castle Right
Castle Interior Courtyard Passage to
Cathedral
Royal Throne - Bishops and Kings
mythical dragon guards the castle The royal walk from castle
to centre square
(borrowed postcard
image above)
Yellow house Pope John Paul II
(site of cardinal's window forbidden preaching)
VIP hotel (visiting head of states)
University Square
Over 600 years old - Copernicus, Chopin,
et al
Centre Square / Cloth Market
Polish Pub (lunch with friends)
(borrowed
postcard image)
END OF CITY TOUR
Day Trip
to Salt Mine at Wieliczka
(700 years of mining / a national treasure)
hundreds of salt sculptures
salt deposit with demo workings
rope lift
one
of many chapels / wood and salt sculpting Blessed King's
Chapel
(ceiling
about 95 m under surface)
(borrowed
postcard image)
relief sculpting of biblical scenes
Memorial Hall
(concerts etc)
Goethe
brine filled area
Walking the town...
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Special Evening Dinner
Day Trip to Ski Resort at Zakopane
Day Trip
to Auschwitz-Birkenau
Tour starts at
"Arbeit Macht Frei"
Polish Army barracks used for prisoners
execution wall / firing squad (sometime hundreds per
day)
punishment posts
Israeli Visitors
Crematorium (rear view)
Crematorium (front view)
Tour continues at Auschwitz II / Birkenau
Extermination Camp
Camp diagram
(over 300 buildings) (execution of 7000 per day)
Gate at bottom; rail
heading is broken line;
weak, women and children separated
and sent to crematoriums at top of diagram
polish dinner before concert Philharmonic
Hall (music much to 20th century)
NOV 11 is Independence Day
Free day to walk / revisit / explore
(time to buy amber for Dianne)
Lady with an Ermine / Leonardo da Vinci
Evening: Polish Music and Dance in centre square
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