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Last year more people visited Krakow than they did ever before. They`re doing businesses here, seeing new places, meeting interesting people. But what else makes Krakow so special that people from all over the world wants to visit it And how the tourism in Krakow looks like?

Poland is having its best time for tourism and economy right now. And one of the greatest towns is Krakow that brings millions of people every year and a lot of money to the country. Some, when seeing Krakow for the first time can`t forget its beauty for a long time and thinking about staying there forever.
Very good time for tourism in Krakow was 2006 when most people came to Krakow to meet pope Benedict XVI. Only half of million pilgrims came there. It had its record with the numbers of visits. But even 2006 was beaten by the last year and even without the Pope! Krakow is becoming more and more popular.

People are choosing Krakow as their destination point for many reasons. As it was said, there are doing their businesses there, their attention is being attracted because of the cultural events and monuments, antiques. Moreover more people are willing to come to this town for shopping (a big difference), because of the cuisine, good alcohol and religion.
Today Krakow is changing it`s infrastructure to facilitate visiting this beautiful place. The roads are being developed, numbers of buildings is increasing, more people are choosing Krakow apartments, and decide to live there, hotels in Krakow are becoming better and better. There are more places to sleep. Most of the people from all over the world are coming to Krakow by planes - it`s the easiest way: land near Krakow, take Krakow airport transfer and in a short time you are when you wanted toSimple, isn`t it?
Nearby Krakow there are many places you can call a `must see`. When people are deciding to come to Poland and their destination is Krakow they can`t miss Zakopane, salt mine in Wieliczka, tours to the Auschwitx-Birkenau Concentration Camp (Auschwitz) or Wadowice.

And there is something more that you can`t even describe - the atmosphere of this city. You just have to come to Krakow to feel it. There is nothing like it! So remember before planning next holidays - holiday in Krakow Poland - that`s a best choice you can have.

Auschwitz Tour ensure wide trip & tour offer. Our tour service gives you an opportunity to see many great and beautiful places in southern Poland. Our consultants can help you with choosing your tour purpose. They will present you details on our whole offer, including:
Auschwitz-Birkenau tour

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest of the German Holocaust concentration and extermination camps. Located in German-occupied southern Poland, it took its name from the nearby town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz in German), situated about 50 kilometers west of Kraków and 286 kilometers from Warsaw. Following the German occupation of Poland in September 1939, Oświęcim was incorporated into Germany as part of the Katowice District, or unofficially East Upper Silesia, and renamed Auschwitz.
You can find there 3 main camps Auschwitz I, the administrative center; Auschwitz II (Birkenau), an extermination camp; and Auschwitz III, a work camp. The first two of them have been on the World Heritage List since 1979. There were also around 40 satellite camps, some of them tens of kilometers from the main camps, with prisoner populations ranging from several dozen to several thousand.
Salt Mine Wieliczka tour

The Wieliczka Salt Mine, nowadays practically on the southeast outskirts of Krakow, has been worked for 900 years. It used to be one of the world\\\’s biggest and most profitable industrial establishments when common salt was commercially a medieval equivalent of today\\\’s oil. Always a magnet, since the mid-18th century Krakow\\\’s Wieliczka saltmine has become increasingly a tourist attraction in the first place. Today visitors walk underground for about 2,000m in the oldest part of the salt mine and see its subterranean museum, which takes three hours or so.
Zakopane

Zakopane is situated in southern Poland, about 100 km to the south of Cracow, close to the border with Slovakia. It lies in a valley at the foot of The Tatras, the highest mountains in Poland. The centre lies at about 840 m above sea level, but some parts are even as high as 1000 m above sea level on the slopes of Gubałówka - a hill that surrounds it from the south.

Zakopane district is considered the most attractive tourist region in Poland. The Tatras, the hills of Podhale as well as the town itself are ideal places for walks, those longer or shorter hikes. A walk around the town can be combined with visiting its monuments and other interesting places.
Częstochowa tour

This is where you can see The Black Madonna of Częstochowa icon that was, according to legend, painted by St. Luke the Evangelist on a cypress table top from the house of the Holy Family. One of the oldest documents from Jasna Góra states that the picture travelled from Jerusalem, via Constantinople, to finally reach Częstochowa in August 1382 . The Black Madonna is credited with miraculously saving the monastery of Jasna Góra (English: Bright Mount) from a Swedish 17th century invasion, which actually changed the course of the war.

The monastery has been a pilgrimage destination for hundreds of years. Including pilgrimage of Pope John Paule 2nd.
Auschwitz Tour offers you fast and high quality transfers. We are present on Kraków International Airport (Balice) and Katowice International Airport (Pyrzowice).
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Our driver meets you at the airport at appointed day and time. Then he leads you up to the car. If there is such a need he will be pleased to help you with your luggage. When packaging is done and every one is on the board our driver will take you to the pointed place in the city center. We give You high quality services !
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Auschwitz-tour.com is a transportation company. Our transportation company are providing high quality, flexible transfer and tour service meeting tourist\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s needs. Wide range of offered tours will let you visit most popular places in the south Poland e.g. Auschwitz tours, Wieliczka Saltmine tours, Wadowice tours, CzÄ™stochowa, Zakopane, Krakow tours and many more.
Our offer includes also airport transfers form Kraków (Balice) airport and Katowice (Pyrzowice) airport. We also give you an opportunity to plan your own tour - our cars and drivers are at yours disposal
We will provide you professional and comfortable service, so you can enjoy your free time sightseeing most beautiful and well known places. We will also take care of your safety. Our experienced drivers will be pleased to help you if necessary.
If You have questions about our offer or just want some more feedback concerning trips and transfers please contact us. We help You with every question!

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Phone: +48 506 207 523
Mail: biuro@auschwitz-tour.com
Website: www.auschwitz-tour.com

Auschwitz-tour.com is a transportation company. We are providing high quality, flexible transfer and tour service meeting tourist\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\’s needs. Wide range of offered tours will let you visit most popular places in the south Poland e.g. Auschwitz tours, Wieliczka Saltmine tours, Wadowice tours, CzÄ™stochowa, Zakopane, Krakow tours and many more.
Our offer includes also airport transfers form Kraków (Balice) airport and Katowice (Pyrzowice) airport. There is a possibility to negotiate, especially when you are representing bigger group of people. We can prepare special tour just for you!
Our company will provide you professional and comfortable service, so you can enjoy your free time sightseeing most beautiful and well known places. We will also take care of your safety. Our experienced drivers will be pleased to help you if necessary.
If You have questions about our offer or just want some more feedback concerning trips and transfers please contact us. Our consultants are ready to help You

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What do most of people know about Poland? Maybe the name of its capitol, some facts from its history or economic subjects, but do they know that Poland is one of the most interesting places in Europe? And also may be one of the most underappreciated destinations in Europe?

This country is full of mysterious places, legends, myths. Each of the biggest towns and famous places in Poland is one of a kind from a different reason. Sopot, Warsaw, Krakow, Zakopane, every single is worth of visiting and spend a time in. What is so special about those places?
Starting from the Baltic sea we have Sopot. Sopot is the capital of Poland party life at the Baltic sea and it boats a very long pier. It offers over 10 km of white sandy beach dotted with bars and cafes. There are also cycle paths, beautiful promenades, parks and a forest next to the beach. But that`s not all. If you want to have some more fun you can try one of health spas in there or taste some of its nightlife. You won`t be defeated by its clubs and restaurants with finest cuisine from all of the world. And all of that at a very cheap prices.

If you have enough of sand and sea you can move your steps down into the centre of Poland - to its capital, Warsaw. The first place you should visit is Square Market that was rebuilt from scratch in 1950` after it was gutted by Nazis during the World War II. A pastel-tinted masterpiece of reconstruction looks just like poetry. There are many cafes, shops and restaurants that offers original and tasty food as for example smoked fish from the lake region. In one of the finest restaurants, Fukier, presidents George Bush and Jacques Chirac visited it and admired the decor of this place. Every year Warsaw organizes international jazz festival held in the Palace of Culture and Science. And the night life in Warsaw almost never ends.
On the south of Poland we have a town that is almost a legend. It`s Krakow. Mentioning all things that are worth worth of seeing would probably take days. But there are places you mustn`t omit. Just go to an Old Town and spend some time at the market place. You will feel this indescribable spirit. What`s more you will see the Wawel Castle there, with the Wawel Dragon, Barbican and Cathedral, and also most important educational institution there, in whole Poland as well, a Jagiellonian University. Krakow is being famous from an Auschwitz Camp that is situated near it. Over 60 years ago it was a place of mass murders and extermination of millions of people by Nazi Germans. Nowadays hundreds of people every year are having tours there.
After you have seen the sea, spent some time at the cultural capitols of Poland there is time for visiting Poland`s premier mountain resort that is Zakopane. It lies in a big valley between the Tatra Mountains and Gubałówka Hill (one of the most important alpine locations). Every year over three millions of people go to Zakopane for skiing, hiking and camping - both at summer and winter time. A trip in Zakopane may start at Gubalowka Mountain from where you can have a view on Tatra`s as well as Zakopane and then go to see Krupowki - the main street of Zakopane were mountaineers offer the best products they have - cheese that is called `oscypek` and soft woollen clothes . Because it has been enjoyed primarily by Poles and travellers from Eastern Europe the number of Zakopane hotels and restaurants is becoming bigger.

If you are interested in visiting those places you won`t have troubles with finding some interesting tours in there and accommodation - just type `Poland tours` and `Poland hotel` in your browser you will get a bunch of very good offers which are inexpensive with a good quality{.|.
As you can see there are many reasons why it`s worth to visit Poland. See them and make your own opinion about them. But I`m sure you won`t regret that.}

The Auschwitz (often, but incorrectly written as `Auswitch`) complex was the site of scientifically planned and efficiently executed genocide during World War II. Accurate statistics were not kept, but the estimates of deaths at the camp complex range from 1.5 million to as many as 4 million. Camp Commandant Rudolf Hoess admitted to a minimum figure of 2.5 million deaths at Auschwitz. Reflecting back some years later on the experiments in the basement of Block 11 and later in Gas Chamber and Crematorium 1, Hoess said:
At the time I did not think about the problem of killing Soviet prisoners of war. It was an order and I had to execute it. However, I will say frankly that killing that group of people by gas relieved my anxieties. It would soon be necessary to start the mass extermination of the Jews, and until that moment neither I Eichmann had known how to conduct a mass killing. A sort of gas was to be used, but it was not known what kind of gas was meant and how to use it. Now we had both the gas and the way of using it. I had always been concerned at the thought of mass shootings, particularly of women and children. I was already sick of executions. Now my mind was at ease.
*Taken from testimony collected during Hoess`s investigation. (Archives of the Auswchwitz State Museum).
Jews comprised the largest number of victims, and Auschwitz has become the prime symbol of what became known as the Holocaust of European Jewry; at least one-third of the estimated 5 million to 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II died there. Large numbers of Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, gypsies, and homosexuals also died at Auschwitz.
The Nazis established Auschwitz in April 1940 under the direction of Heinrich Himmler, chief of two Nazi organizations-the Nazi guards known as the Schutzstaffel (SS), and the secret police known as the Gestapo. The camp at Auschwitz originally housed political prisoners from occupied Poland and from concentration camps within Germany. Construction of nearby Birkenau (Brzenzinka), also known as Auschwitz II, began in October 1941 and included a women`s section after August 1942. Birkenau had four gas chambers, designed to resemble showers, and four crematoria, used to incinerate bodies.
Approximately 40 more satellite camps were established around Auschwitz. These were forced labor camps and were known collectively as Auschwitz III. The first one was built at Monowitz and held Poles who had been forcibly evacuated from their hometowns by the Nazis. Prisoners were transported from all over Nazi-occupied Europe by rail, arriving at Auschwitz in daily convoys. Arrivals at the complex were separated into three groups. One group went to the gas chambers within a few hours; these people were sent to the Birkenau camp, where more than 20,000 people could be gassed and cremated each day. At Birkenau, the Nazis used a cyanide gas called Zyklon-B, which was manufactured by a pest-control company. A second group of prisoners were used as slave labor at industrial factories for such companies as I. G. Farben and Krupp.
At the Auschwitz complex 405,000 prisoners were recorded as laborers between 1940 and 1945. Of these about 340,000 perished through executions, beatings, starvation, and sickness. Some prisoners survived through the help of German industrialist Oskar Schindler, who saved about 1000 Polish Jews by diverting them from Auschwitz to work for him, first in his factory near Krakow and later at a factory in what is now the Czech Republic. A third group, mostly twins and dwarfs, underwent medical experiments at the hands of doctors such as Josef Mengele, who was also known as the `Angel of Death.` The camp was staffed partly by prisoners, some of whom were selected to be kapos (orderlies) and sonderkommandos (workers at the crematoria).
Members of these groups were killed periodically. The kapos and sonderkommandos were supervised by members of the SS; altogether 6000 SS members worked at Auschwitz. By 1943 resistance organizations had developed in the camp. These organizations helped a few prisoners escape; these escapees took with them news of exterminations, such as the killing of hundreds of thousands of Jews transported from Hungary between May and July 1944. In October 1944 a group of sonderkommandos destroyed one of the gas chambers at Birkenau. They and their accomplices, a group of women from the Monowitz labor camp, were all put to death. When the Soviet army marched into Auschwitz to liberate the camp on January 27, 1945, they found about 7600 survivors abandoned there. More than 58,000 prisoners had already been evacuated by the Nazis and sent on a final death march to Germany. In 1946 Poland founded a museum at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in remembrance of its victims. By 1994, about 22 million visitors-700,000 annually-had passed through the iron gates that bear the cynical motto Arbeit macht frei (work makes one free).
*Martin Gilbert, Atlas of the Holocaust (London: Dent, 1993).
German war interests required the maximization of economic benefits from this cold-blooded murder. Before the bodies were burned the victim`s hair was cut off and fillings and false teeth made of precious metals were removed. The hair was used for making haircloth, and the metals were melted into bars and sent to Berlin. After the liberation tons of hair were found in camp warehouses; the Nazis had not had time to process it all. Proof that this hair came from victims of gassing was provided by The Kracow Institute of Judicial Expertise, whose analyses showed that traces of prussic acid, a poisonous component typical of Zyklon compounds, were present in the hair.
*Mieczyslaw Kieta (1920-1984).
In 1941-1944 prisoner of KL Auschwitz, then of KL Gross-Rosen and KL Flossenburg-Leitmeritz, from which he escaped in April 1945. After the war, journalist, author of many articles about Auschwitz: active in many associations and organizations, acting, for example as Secretary General of the International Auschwitz Committee and member of the Main Commission for the investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland.
*Deniers acknowledge that some Jews were incarcerated in places such as Auschwitz, but they maintain, as they did at the trial of a Holocaust denier in Canada, it was equipped with `all the luxuries of a country club, including a swimming pool, a dance hall and recreational facilities.` Some Jews may have died, they said, but this was the natural consequence of wartime deprivations.`
*Deborah Lipstadt. (Denying the Holocaust).
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We offer tours in the Poland: Auschwitz tours, Krakow tours, Wieliczka Saltmine tours, Holocaust tours. Our offer includes also airport transfers form Kraków (Balice) airport and Katowice (Pyrzowice) airport.
Our company will provide you enjoy your free time sightseeing most beautiful and well known places eg. Auschwitz tours. We will also take care of your safety. Our experienced drivers will be pleased to help you if necessary.
We also give you an opportunity to plan your own tour - our cars and drivers are at yours disposal. There is a possibility to negotiate, especially when you are representing bigger group of people. We can prepare special tour just for you!
If You have questions about our offer or just want some more feedback concerning trips and transfers please contact us. We are ready to help You.

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Jumping with a parachute, bungee-jumping, fast ride on the motorcycle don`t compare to what you can experience while…being in a salt-mine. You probably don`t believe that? You`ve surely never been in Wieliczka Salt Mine.
The Wieliczka Salt Mine is well known all around the world. Every year more than one million of tourists come to Poland to see one of its most beautiful and legendary treasures. The most famous historical people as Goethe, Nickolaus Copernicus, Emperor Franz Josef, Boleslaw Prus, pope Jan Paul II, Bill Clinton were totally impressed when seeing the mine. The charm and almost magic atmosphere in Wieliczka can give you chills when experiencing it…135 metres underground.
Wieliczka Salt Mine is the only one salt mine preserved in such good condition. The deposit of rock salt in Wieliczka has been mined since the 13th century (according to some sources it was even 11th century). It has nine levels and the lowest one goes down to a depth of 327 metres (although tourists tour starts at 65 metre and goes only to 135 metre). Since 1978 Wieliczka Salt Mine is on the UNESCO`s World Heritage List. The numerous pieces of art as altars and statues sculpted in salt needed a costly protection before the humidity and thanks to the help of UNESCO such equipment was installed in the mine.
There are many reasons why Wieliczka is such unique place. It shows a great history of mining due to the conservation of the old galleries and the exhibition of tools used. It gives over two kilometres walk to see all amazing places. It passes through 20 caves, many of them adorned with sculptures the miners made. Amazingly it is very clean. The walls are sparkling if you hold a light to it. The gangways are held upright by complex wooden structures. The most impressive place is the Underground Cathedral - the wall decorations as The Last Supper, the altar, statues, and even floor and ceiling all are made of salt. The creators were three miners who were spending their spare time this way. It took 68 years of work.

Very interesting legend that illustrates the source of salt in Wieliczka is connected with this place. It`s about Hungarian princes Kinga who was about to marry polish king Boleslaw. The saint Kinga was willing to give a special present to her fiance and her new nation. Before she came to Poland and got married she was given one of the salt mines in Hungary as part of her dowry. She dreamt that salt would be discovered in Poland. So she threw her engagement ring into the mine and prayed for that. When she arrived in Poland miners miraculously found a block of salt and Kinga`s ring in a place shown by her. It was a beginning of a great prosperity for Poland.
If you are interested in experiencing something amazing, see the history of mining, feel the atmosphere of one of the oldest salt mines in the world, breath the healthy air, or send a postcard to a friend from 135 metres underground just book in one of cheap flights to Poland and take Wieliczka Salt Mine tour. It will be a great chance to see also the historical town Krakow and be a trip to Auschwitz.

Auschwitz-tour.com is a transportation company. We are providing high quality, flexible transfer and tour service meeting tourist\\\\\\\’s needs. Wide range of offered tours will let you visit most popular places in the south Poland e.g. Auschwitz tours, Wieliczka Saltmine tours, Wadowice tours, CzÄ™stochowa, Zakopane, Krakow tours and many more.
Our offer includes also airport transfers form Kraków (Balice) airport and Katowice (Pyrzowice) airport. There is a possibility to negotiate, especially when you are representing bigger group of people. We can prepare special tour just for you!
We will provide you professional and comfortable service, so you can enjoy your free time sightseeing most beautiful and well known places. We will also take care of your safety. Our experienced drivers will be pleased to help you if necessary.
If You have questions about our offer or just want some more feedback concerning trips and transfers please contact us. We help You with every question!

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Mail: biuro@auschwitz-tour.com
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Did you ever think why travelling is so important? Sure you have a great fun by knowing new people and places. An important reason is knowledge that you are gaining while being on tour. But in many cases it can`t be fun in a common meaning. Especially when it comes to such places which are important for human kind and must be visited even if they could bring tears to our eyes.
Auschwitz`s sad history is strictly connected with Second World War and German plan of extermination of Jews. Nearby the town which is called Oswiecim (in Polish, Auschwitz in German) Nazis established the complex of concentration camps that brought its name from the town. Millions of people died there because of starvation, forced labour or `medical` experiments. But most of them died in gas chambers. Among them were not only Jews but also Poles and Gypsies The size of tragedy was a reason why it became a well-known symbol of terror and Holocaust, and appeared on UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites.
In the beginning it was established for Polish political prisoners. But soon it showed it`s real aim and became an implement to the Nazi policy of spoliation, degradation and extermination of the Jews. It consists of three camps. Auschwitz I was the administrative centre for the whole complex. First one who lived there were Polish intellectuals and so-called `anti-social elements` as for example homosexuals. The experiments on people were made in here. Auschwitz II (also called Birkenau) is commonly mislead with Auschwitz I, or just named `Auschwitz`. Birkenau was the main camp, much bigger than Auschwitz I, more people passed through its gates and more died. This was the place where the gas chambers were located and crematoria. Forced labour were in Auschwitz III which is called the satellite.
The camp was liberated by allies in 1945. After the liberation the whole world known the horrible tragedy that happened near Auschwitz. And till this day there are still facts that aren`t sure as for example the amount of people who died there. Also a common misleading is saying that Auschwitz was `Polish Concentration Camp` just because it was established in Poland. The activity of polish government brought results in 2007, where `Auschwitz Concentration Camp` changed its name for `Auschwitz Birkenau. German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp`.
Many survivors of Auschwitz Concentration Camp and their families are still travelling to this place. For those people it almost became a tradition to visit Auschwitz every year to show the history of those who died there. People who aren`t emotionally connected with this place come to visit and spend few hours on Auschwitz tours just to know and understand what happened here over 60 years ago.