Czestochowa
- Poland’s spiritual heart
- the miraculous Black Madonna
- assistance of local, English-speaking monk
Circa settant’anni fa il potere comunista decise di fondare nei pressi di Cracovia un enorme quartiere industriale che doveva fungere da contrappeso ai monumenti storici ed alla nobile storia della città. Così nel 1950 ebbe inizio la costruzione, a sud di Cracovia, di Nowa Huta (Nuova Acciaieria), uno dei maggiori investimenti del governo polacco degli anni ’50.
The blocks of flats feature Renaissance-inspired elements, which were used to commemorate the “new awakening of mankind”. You will visit the administrative buildings of the steelworks, the Central Square of Promenades, the so-called Dozow Palace, and the first churches built during the workers’ counter-revolution. Nowa Huta eventually transformed itself into one of the bastions of the anti-communist movement of the 1980s.
This tour will be exotic for anybody from beyond the former Iron Curtain, and perfect for the “proletariat” of any country, since you will see a great number of artefacts that once were a common sight for anybody living within the Soviet bloc before the fall of the Berlin wall.
This special tour is lead by a team of dedicated “Crazy Guides” who will drive you in Trabant automobiles – small plastic-bodied cars manufactured in the former East German Democratic Republic. They will show you a typical communist “restaurant” and an apartment in a block-of-flats from the 1970s.