Krakow

Krakow
Krakow
Krakow

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Rugby Tours To Krakow

Rugby Tours to Krakow is a major city in Poland. Another new adventure being added to Irish Rugby Tours tour list of destinations to visit.

Kraków also spelled Cracow or Krakow, is the second largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland.

Situated on the Vistula River in the Lesser Poland region, the city dates back to the 7th century.

Until 1596 Kraków was the official capital of Poland.

Traditionally been one of the leading centres of Polish academic, economic, cultural and artistic life.

Cited as one of Europe’s most beautiful cities, its Old Town was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

In 1978, Karol Wojtyła, archbishop of Kraków, was elevated to the papacy as Pope John Paul I. He was the first Slavic pope ever and the first non-Italian pope in 455 years.

1st September 1939 will go down as a date never to be forgotten in history that destroyed so many Polish lives.

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Our Popular Inclusions for a Rugby Tour to Krakow

Drop down deep to one of Krakow’s salt mines.
Visit Krakow’s splendid Wawel Royal Castle.
Pop into Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory on a guided tour.
Stroll around the Old Town of Krakow and some shopping.
Enjoy a fun day out at the Krakow Water Park.
Meet the animals who inhabit the Krakow Zoo.
Get in and enjoy a few hours White Water Rafting.
Sit in quietness or stroll around Saint Mary’s Basilica.
Attend the Galicia Jewish Museum and learn what happened to its people during occupation of WW2.
Lost Souls Alley is where you can enter the world of challengers and dilemmas.
Auschwitz one place that should never be forgotten.

Auschwitz

The Auschwitz concentration camp was built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II.

It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp and administrative headquarters in Oswiecim.

Auschwitz II–Birkenau, a combined concentration and extermination camp three kilometres away in Brzezinski.

Auschwitz III–Mankowitz, a labour camp created to staff an IG Farben synthetic-rubber factory.

Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, sparking World War II. Auschwitz 1 was converted, a former army barracks, to hold Polish political prisoners.

The first prisoners, German criminals brought to the camp as functionaries, arrived in May 1940.

The first gassing of prisoners took place in block 11 of Auschwitz I in September 1941.

Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazis’ Final Solution to the Jewish Question.

From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to the camp’s gas chambers.

Of the estimated 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, at least 1.1 million died, around 90 percent of them Jews.

Approximately one in six Jews killed in the Holocaust died at the camp.

Today Auschwitz is open to the public for them to see what life was like for these people and who should never be forgotten.

Wieliczka Salt Mine

The Wieliczka Salt Mine in the town of Wieliczka, Southern Poland, lies within the Kraków Metropolitan area.

Sodium Chloride (table salt) was formerly produced there from the upwelling brine – and had been since Neolithic times.

Excavated from the 13th century, produced table salt continuously until 2007, as one of the world’s oldest operating salt mines.

Throughout its history, the royal salt mine was operated by the Kraków Salt Mines company.

Commercial salt mining was discontinued in 1996 owing to falling salt prices and mine flooding. Salt Mine is now an official Polish Historic Monument.

Its attractions include the shafts and labyrinthine passageways, displays of historic salt-mining technology, an underground lake, four chapels.

Also included are numerous statues carved by miners out of the rock salt, and more recent sculptures by contemporary artists.

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Oskar Schlindler’s Enamel Factory

On 1 September 1939, Nazi Germany invaded Poland and the Second World War broke out.

On 6 September, German troops entered Kraków. It was also probably around that time in which Oskar Schindler, a Sudeten German arrived in Kraków.

Using the power of the German occupation forces in the capacity of a trustee, he took over the German kitchenware shop.

In November 1939, on the power of the decision of the Trusteeship Authority he took over the receivership of the “Record” company in Zablocie.

He also produced ammunition shells, so that his factory would be classed as an essential part of the war effort.

Schindler managed to build a sub-camp of the Płaszów forced labour camp in the premises where “his” Jews had scarce contact with camp guards.

Steven Spielberg’s Oscar winning film “Schindler’s List” you will see in detail exactly what happened and the risk he took to save these people’s lives.

Lost Souls Alley

Lost Souls Alley implements your worst nightmares. They have a whole new dimension of fear for you.

The world you enter through the old shabby door is filled with your worst fears.

Waiting for you in every dark corner of our haunted floor is darkness, challenges, dilemmas and sacrifices.

You can blur the boundaries between reality and fiction, all at your own request.

Created in 2013, an interactive home of fear with elements of an escape room. Choose one of the versions of the show and check if you can do the job.

Fear, struggle for survival, uncertainty and even pain and psychological violence will appear on your path (depending on the version of the show chosen).