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Dec/11

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Krakow and Pyrzowice airports

Krakow Balice and Katowice Pyrzowice are two of the most important airports in Poland.
Just Wroclaw, Gdansk, and obviously the capital city are more significant.
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Dec/11

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Tourism path of Salt Mine Wieliczka.

Every year Wieliczka is visited by even more than thousands of visitors. The visitors attracting salt mine is placed at the depth of 327 meters and its undergrounds corridors are over 300 km long. Although the mine’s tracks are so long, tourists have chance to see a 3,5 km route, where there are several interesting antique statues and mythical figures.
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Zakopane is a favoured mountainous town called the Polish winter center. Located at the bottom of the Tatra Mountains in Poland, it edges with the Polish Slovak boundary line. You can hit it in around 2-3 hours from the city of Krakow by car.

Because of its position in the valley between Tatra Mountains and Gubałowka Hill it makes up the Polish important center of skiing as well as mountaineering. The most popular and also most often visited skiing resorts are Kasprowy Wierch, Gubałowka Hill and Nosal.
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Called as the Pearl of Pieniny Mountains, Dunajec River Gorge is the awesome location you simply need to run across as you’re in Poland. The Gorge passes through southern Poland and northern Slovakia. It forms the legendary traveller area where you can participate in the water travel experience on theRiver. Dunajce gorge creates 7 meanders and is circled by truly high limestone and dolomite rocks.
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The institution commemorates the victims of the Nazi huge murder at the time of the World War the second. It is situated in Oświęcim, in Malopolska region and includes two extermination camps: Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The Museum was set in 1947 and is placed in plenty of real buildings. The surrounding area lies on almost two hundred hectars.
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At present, Auschwitz museum and memorial is the only German death camp introduced to the UNESCO. The Polish region Oswięcim in the neighborhood of Krakow houses this big memorial.
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The exceptional Czestochowa Monastery.

This holy monks’ shelter is frequently regarded as the Polish focus of pilgrimages. Each single year it is visited by the great deal of believers who come to request the Saint Mary for Her mercy. What’s particularly important about it is the magical force which it is related to.
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The blessed painting of the Saint Mary with little Jesus on her shoulders is the most commonly blessed and time-honoured relic amid the Polish Catholics as well as the members of the Orthodox Church. The image is also considered as the national sign of Republic of Poland.
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The Auschwitz Birkenau extermination camp is perceived by the observers as the big indication of the Holocaust as it is often pointed when talking about the biggest and most famous extinction camps amid in the World. The camp was operating in 1940-ies soon after Poland was grabbed by the German Nazis and right away was the focal point of massive destruction of mainly Jews. some other fatalities came from Poland, Soviet regions but also plenty of different areas.
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