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Incoming Tourism Department
“Logostour” Travel Agency of the Polish Teachers’ Union that has been present
on market since 1981, is one among the oldest and the most significant Polish tour-operators.
The subject of the company’s activity, having 11 branches in the whole Poland, are almost all
segments of tourism.
During many years of working and gaining experience we won a precious capital which
constitutes the trust of our foreign and domestic clients and a reliable, easy identified brand. We
undoubtedly succeeded due to the team of our competent and dynamic specialists, offering always
professional advice and assist.
“Logostour” Incoming Tourism Department has its head office in Krakow, in the “Logos”
Hotel, being the property of the company. Our wide offer which we direct to foreign groups, domestic
ones as well as to individual tourists includes among others weekends in the most beautiful cities of
Poland connected with visiting the cities and pleasure, thematic programs and tours. We offer also
stays in historic buildings, health resorts, SPA hotels and active rest during winter and summer. We
offer also organization of conferences, trainings and international meetings.
Our colleagues, co-workers, tour guides always watch over the stay in Poland assuring it to be
perfectly organized and interesting, leaving unforgotten impressions and encouraging to coming
back to our country with “Logostour” Travel Agency.
at the “Logos” Hotel
31-123 Kraków
ul. Szujskiego 5
tel./fax: + 48 12 633 96 81
tel./fax: + 48 12 633 96 74
e-mail: [email protected]
www.incoming.logostour.pl
POLAND
…it is only a slight impression about Poland. Only a few facts about the richness
of monuments, diversified landscapes, culture pears – the country having longer
than a thousand-year history. Here it is possible to see the dynamism of changes, be
surprised by hospitality of inhabitants, frankness of colorful crowd of young Poles and
European flourish of new city centers.
We are willing to accept every, even the most original idea. See you in Poland.
Incoming Tourism Team
It’s not a dream, it’s Krakow
Come here once and you
will come back again!
Weekend in Krakow
“And this is Poland”
Krakow, having its historic, cultural and intellectual background and its specific atmosphere is a unique place. Old residence of kings, vault
of old work of arts and architecture, a seat of one of the first European universities, is today the example of the most precious historic cities
of Europe. The Old Town surrounded by a green ring of Planty Garden was entered in the list of World Cultural Heritage List of UNESCO, always
captivates with its charm. The Royal Castle rising proudly on Wawel Hill by the Vistula River. Grand Square – the most wonderful marketplace of
medieval Europe and huge stage of the city luring by numerous coffees teeming with life, restaurants and pubs, din and music. Cloth Hall – colorful
shopping stalls from 13th century and the Basilica of the Virgin Mary’s with its famous altarpiece carved by Veit Stoss and Krakow signal played every
full hour from the church tower. Historic buildings of Jagiellonian University that have shaped outstanding brains for ages. Narrow streets of Kazimierz
with mysterious lanes and corners… All that creates the unique charm of magical Krakow which every year attracts more and more tourists.
Taste the atmosphere of Krakow – the Old Town
• a ride by hackney carriage around the Old Town
• a walk on beautifully lighted Grand Square
• a diner with artistic program or jazz concert
Lose yourself in the atmosphere of Krakow pubs
Time for pleasure in historic cellars creating a labyrinth of Krakow night life.
Discover treasures and secrets – the Old Town and Kazimierz
Warszawa – Częstochowa – Kraków – Wrocław – Książ – Łowicz – Warszawa
Warszawa – Malbork – Gdańsk – Mazury – Warszawa
Wrocław – Kraków – Zakopane – Warszawa – Poznań
Poland is a country that has many faces, where tradition joins modernity in harmonious and inspiring integrity. Among all remains from Polish
history we can find wonderful medieval castles and monasteries, lovely old-town tenement houses, picturesque huts kept in heritage parks, as
well as nature treasures such as aged oaks in primeval backwoods of Białowieża Primeval Forest. Polish countryside delights with its beauty
wayside shrines and wooden churches, as well as storks’ nest that can be visible very often close to houses. However, Poland is also a country of
internet, mobile phone nets and fast cars. Polish present times and its future mean modern offices, hotels, shopping malls, restaurants, theater
and concert halls and nigh life thriving in pubs and clubs that appear on and on.
In the vicinity of cosmopolitan culture and amusement centers such as Warsaw, Krakow, Wrocław or Gdańsk there are areas having unique
natural features, where you can escape from urban tumult. Mazury forests and lakes, mountain ranges of Karpaty, seaside dunes at Bałtyk create
picturesque mosaic of Polish landscapes. Those are reasons why Poland attracts so many foreign tourists.
Poland can astonish you… and it is worth to experience it.
Actively – healthy – beautifully
Immerse in secret corners of Kazimierz streets
• Wawel Hill – royal residence with magical stone
• the Grand Square and Collegium Maius – the oldest building of Jagiellonian University
• the Basilica of the Virgin Mary’s with its famous altarpiece by Veit Stoss
• Cloth Hall – “shopping mall of Middle Ages”
An evening in Kazimierz – the center of religion, philosophy and Jewish culture – walking historical streets and diner with specific music concert.
See the world of underground salt passages and crystalline caves – Wieliczka
Unique tourist attraction – the oldest in Europe Salt Mine, entered into World Cultural Heritage List of UNESCO.
Additional attractions of Krakow and its surroundings:
• the Czartoryski Muzeum – “Lady With an Ermine” by Leonardo da Vinci
• Concert in Krakow Concert Hall
Recover drinking coffee in underground restaurants
• Kościuszko Hill
• Boat cruise on Vistula River
• Amusement in Aqua Park
Ojcowski National Park – Jurassic landscapes, castle in Pieskowa Skała, Niepołomice – Niepołomice Forest and hunting castle, Golf Party
in Paczółtowice, bike paths in Krakow valleys.
Krynica, Zakopane, Szklarska Poręba, Bałtyk, Mazury
To recover from daily stress… The best prescription is an active vacation in charming places. During winter –when you are delighted by
sparkling snow, when you get tired skiing down the slopes of Beskidy, Tatra Mountains and Karkonosze and during summer – when you can spin
the bike wheels, you can catch wind in your sails at Bałtyk or maybe in more calmly way: you can spy on the nature while sailing kayak or sailboat
at Mazury – think: you have to regenerate your body and your spirit.
The rest in SPA Centers
Krynica Geovita – Wierchomla Ski & Spa – Mazury Młyn Klekotki- Wzgórza Dylewskie Dr Irena Eris
Nothing is more soothing after daylong effort than treatments in warm and cozy SPA beauty salons that can bring back vitality and joy
of life. A healthy style and nearness of nature connected with individually adjusted treatments bring out from the insight of each of us the beauty
of a body and allow the brain to recover. You can see in those places the beneficial influence of nature taking from it everything that is the best
and using all beauty treatments carried in the most professional way.
A few scenes from Malopolska
Mountain landscapes
Kraków – Wieliczka – Krynica – Zakopane – Kraków
Within the range of 150 km from Krakow the landscape changes beyond recognition. During a few days it is possible to see calcareous
ridges of the Pieniny Mountains, have an adventure by sailing a raft through Dunajec gorge, look at the Tatra Mountains from the Jaworzyna top
in Krynica, and be delighted by Giewont, the best known top of the Tatra, towering over Zakopane.
Nature, tastes, folklore
Zakopane, Krynica, Szczawnica
The most precious feature of Małopolska folklore is the fact that it is so genuine. Traditions being fostered for ages are still alive here.
The original dress, language, architecture, cuisine help to see, among mountain landscapes, the individuality and beauty of Podhale, Spisz and
Orawa. Regional goods and dishes are pride of the local cuisine which takes its ingredients from flawless nature. The crown of each trip into
those picturesque regions should be a dinner in a regional inn, where the hospitable highlander ladies invite to famous oscypek, Polish cheese
specialty.
The Great Poles – John Paul II
Kraków – Wadowice – Kalwaria Zebrzydowska –Zakopane – Częstochowa
“…The Homeland is our earthly mother. Poland is our special mother…”
Those words said by John Paul II help to understand his love to places where he spent his childhood, where his youth views were shaping
and the outstanding personality was maturing. Trying to curry the burden of problems of the whole world he came back in his pilgrimages to his
beloved nooks, recalling cream cakes in his family Wadowice, the first rehearsals and his priest work with youths in Krakow, or walks by Tatra
paths. Those were sources where he took his power from.
Judaica
Kraków – Oświęcim: Auschwitz – Birkenau – Kraków
Krakow and its district – Kazimierz is a historic place of harmonious co-existence of two nations: Poles and Jews. During ages the specific
atmosphere has been borne here, the atmosphere of infiltrating two cultures. Here are still the monuments of architecture and other precious
monuments of Jewish religion. Therefore Kazimierz is still alive and is visited every year by tourists from all over the world who sing together
“Shalom” at the Jewish Culture Festival. In the face of tragic history of the nation, whose story is full of tribulations from the 2nd World War in
Auschwitz, in Płaszów behind ghetto walls and in other places of tortures, that word gains its specific meaning.