Fact File
Ideal for:
Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4
Key features:
Auschwitz - Visit Auschwitz for an emotional journey through WWII. Top Tip:
Visit the Cloth Hall - The world’s oldest shopping mall has been situated in Krakow’s Grand Square for 700 years.
Auschwitz - Visit Auschwitz for an emotional journey through WWII. Top Tip:
Visit the Cloth Hall - The world’s oldest shopping mall has been situated in Krakow’s Grand Square for 700 years.
School & College Tours to Krakow
Krakow has been listed by UNESCO as one of the world's 12 most historic sites. It is a beautiful city that escaped the ravages of World War II with many monuments and buildings of extraordinary architectural merit. Not to be missed are the medieval market square and the 16th Century Cloth Hall.
Our Krakow tours are invaluable for history groups, with day trips to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps and guided visits to the Jewish Quarter, Kazimierz, where the film Schindler's List was made.
Top 5 Krakow Excursions
- Jewish/Folklore Evening - Enjoy an evening of traditional Polish Folklore!
- Auschwitz/Birkenau - Concentration Camps 60 km from Krakow, Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Holocaust.
- Kazimierz (Jewish Quarter) Tour - Visit the once bustling Jewish quarter offering a snapshot of Jewish life with its Synagogues and museum. Plus this new exhibition also being held here - Krakow under Nazi ocupation - 1939 - 45.
- Schindler’s Factory Museum - Discover how the city of Krakow was under occupation during the Second World War.
- Wielczka Salt Mine - Nine centuries of mining has produced 20kms of passages and 2,040 caves. See the Museum of Mining.
