Pilgrimage to Poland

17:30 h. Presentation at the Madrid-Barajas Adolfo Suárez airport for check-in and boarding to Krakow. Assistance from Halcón Peregrinaciones staff during check-in.

19:25 h. Departure of the flight to Poland.

22:45 h. Arrival in Krakow.

Meeting with the accompanying guide and driver, transfer by reserved bus to the hotel Golden Tulip Krakow Kazimierz, or similar ****.

Cold dinner.

Lodging at the hotel.

8:00 h. Breakfast at the hotel.

9:00 h. Local guided tour of Krakow: Wawel Hill with the Castle (entrance to the royal apartments) with the Renaissance court, the cathedral (entrance included).
Krakow is one of the oldest and most beautiful cities in Poland: Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque architecture of the Old Town (Stare Miasto), the largest market square in Europe (Rynek Glowny), the tower of the Town Hall, the old Cloth Market. In 1978 Krakow was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

12:00 h. Holy Mass in the church of Santa Virgen María with the altar of the brilliant sculptor Vito Stoss (entrance included).

13:00 h. Lunch.

14.30 h. Short visit to the old city wall near the Gate of St. Florian and the Barbican. Walk through the old town and visit to the Jagiellonian University.

16:00 h. Entrance to the Czartoryski Museum with the Lady with the stoat.

20:00 h. Dinner at the hotel.

6:45 h. Breakfast at the hotel.

7:20 h. Departure to Auschwitz-Birkenau museum.

8:50 h. Visit (with local guides) to the territory of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, built by the Germans during the German occupation of Poland. The Germans murdered more than one million people, most of them of Polish origin.
Jewish. Today Auschwitz is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

13:00 h. Lunch.

14:00 h. Departure to Czestochowa.

15:30 h. Visit with a local guide to the monastery of the Pauline Fathers where the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary of Czestochowa, also called the Black Madonna, is located: the most important pilgrimage site in Poland.

17:00 h. Holy Mass at the sanctuary.

18:30 h. Departure to Krakow.

21:00 h. Dinner at the hotel.

7:00 h. Breakfast at the hotel.

8:15 h. Departure to the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy in Lagiewniki in Krakow.

9:00 h. Visit to the Shrine related to the life and work of Sister Faustina Kowalska.

10:00 h. Holy Mass at Lagiewniki.

11:00 h. Visit to the shrine of John Paul II in Biale Morza built on the grounds of the Solvay quarry.

12:00 h. Departure to Wadowice.

13:00 h. Lunch at the restaurant.

14:30 Visit to the house where Pope John Paul II was born on May 18, 1920 (now a museum about his life) and to the parish church where he was baptized on June 20, 1920.

17:30 h Visit to the Sanctuary of Kalwaria Zebrzydowska the third most visited sanctuary. The mannerist architecture and the environment is a world heritage site since 1999.

18.30 h Departure to Krakow.

20.00 h. Dinner with a concert of Jewish klezmer music.

8:30 h. Holy Mass in a church near the lodging.

9:00 h. Breakfast at the hotel. Free morning.

13:00 h. Lunch at the hotel.

15:30 h. Departure to Wieliczka.

16:25 h. Visit to the salt mine (with local guide) - one of the oldest salt mines in the world, operating since the 13th century. In 1978 it was added to the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites. The mine forms a subway city, with chapels (the chapel of St. Kinga is the largest subway chapel in the world), lakes and tunnels.

20:00 h. Dinner with Polish folklore concert.

7:30 h. Breakfast at the hotel. Check-out.

Free time.

11:00 h. Holy Mass.

12:00 h. Transfer to the airport for check-in and boarding of the flight from Krakow to Madrid.

15:00 h. Flight departure.

19.35 h. Arrival in Madrid. End of the pilgrimage and Halcón Viajes services.