The Route of John Paul II

Arrival to Warsaw

Arrive to Warsaw and meet at the Warsaw airport/the train station with your personal driver who will take you to the selected centrally located hotel in Warsaw. Rest of the day free for leisure.
Recommended activities: viewing terrace on the 31st floor of the Palace of Culture and Science, museums: Warsaw Uprising, Fryderyk Chopin, Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Wilanow Palace.
Overnight in Warsaw.

Introductory city tour of Warsaw

Morning:
You will see the highlights of the city, like the Old Town with its market square, St. John’s Cathedral, the Royal Castle and Lazienki Royal Park with the Palace on the Water, as well as the visited places during the first pilgrimage to Poland on July 2nd, 1979: Pilsudski Square (previously Victory Square), St. Anne’s Church and Palace of Bishops of Krakow in Miodowa Street.
Afternoon:
After lunch break, you will discover another part of Warsaw, Zoliborz where the church of St. Stanislaus Kostka – with the tomb of the beatified Jerzy Popieluszko  – is located. Later on, look into a museum dedicated to Jerzy Popieluszko, a Polish Catholic priest, associated with the Solidarnosc movement. Looking for other activities? We are able to arrange on special requests the brief visit in Temple of Divine Providence with its multimedial Museum of John Paul II and Primate Wyszynski.
Evening:
Free time and overnight in Warsaw.

Warsaw - Krakow

Czestochowa

Wadowice, Kalwaria Zebrzydowska & Lagiewniki

Morning:
You will travel to Wadowice, the hometown of John Paul II, to see the Basilica of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the place of Karol Wojtyla’s baptism, followed by the visit in the house where Karol Wojtyla was born, presently organized as a museum. After finishing the walk, take some rest in the market square and try the Pope’s favourite cream cake called kremowka.
Afternoon:
Our next stop is the Passion-Marian Sanctuary in Kalwaria Zebrzydowska, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List with the following motivation: ‘Kalwaria Zebrzydowska is a cultural site of great beauty and of spiritual importance. Its natural setting, which contains some symbolic places of worship related to the Passion of Jesus Christ and the life of the Virgin Mary, has remained almost unchanged since the 17th century’. Later on we will visit one of the Krakow’s district, Lagiewniki with its spectacular Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy, consecrated by John Paul II in 2002. The place is modern, built after the beatification of St. Faustina, connected to the convent where she spent the last years of her life and where she died on October 5, 1938. The church with the most famous image of the Merciful Jesus painted on the basis of the vision of St. Faustina, is also the resting place of her relics.
Return to the hotel in late afternoon.
Evening:
Free time and overnight in Krakow.

The end of the tour or the continuation

Depending on your departure time, our driver will take you to the Cracow airport or to the train station. If you wish to stay a little longer in Krakow or continue your trip to other destinations, we will be more than glad to help you with the additional services. We recommend the exploration of missing places dedicated to John Paul II:
1. Krakow – Jagiellonian university, Wawel Castle with Sigismund Tower, Franciscan Church with stained glass windows, Blonia Park best known for great Masses celebrated by Pope in 1979, 1983, 1987, 1997 and 2002, and Zakrzowek.
2. Zakopane with his beloved Tatra Mountains, Jaszczurowka church, old cemetery in Peksowy Brzyzek and Morskie Oko Lake