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- Day 1 Arrive in Kraków On arrival in Kraków, your transfer takes you from the airport to your hotel. Meet your Travel Director and fellow travelers over dinner at a local restaurant before heading into the Market Square. The Cloth Hall stands among gabled townhouses and Gothic spires as you move between Christmas stalls filled with handmade gifts. You run your fingers over soft Highland wool slippers, watch Baltic amber jewelry glow honey-gold beneath the stall lights and perhaps even try warm oscypek from the Tatra Mountains, its smoky saltiness cut by tart cranberries. Locations Visited: Kraków PL.
- Day 2 Kraków’s Historic Heart: Wawel and Old Town With your Local Specialist beside you, you climb Wawel Hill to the Renaissance castle and Kraków Cathedral, where Poland’s kings rest beneath centuries of stone. Back in the Old Town, you follow its historic streets before exploring Kraków at your own pace. Perhaps choose today’s Optional Experience to the Wieliczka Salt Mine, descending through galleries cut from rock salt as timber beams brace gray walls dusted with glittering salt deposits. In St Kinga’s Chapel, 101 meters underground, you catch sight of chandeliers strung with bright salt crystals, shimmering above a floor carved from a single mass of salt. Locations Visited: Kraków PL.
- Day 3 Wrocław in Winter: Rivers, Rynek and Gingerbread After traveling to Auschwitz, you'll head to Wrocław. Five rivers thread through the city, dividing it into 12 islands joined by more than 150 bridges. Water slips beneath the crossings, with church towers and old riverside buildings reflected in the Oder. In Rynek, you move beneath thousands of twinkling lights strung above rows of wooden stalls and the Baroque buildings of the historic square. Follow the warm perfume of spice and baked sweetness to a stall serving gingerbread made only with local ingredients and baked to traditional Lower Silesian recipes. Locations Visited: Kraków PL, Wrocław PL.
- Day 4 Cross into Prague for a Dine-Around Evening Crossing the Czech border, you’ll arrive in Prague and enter Malá Strana, where steep lanes and stairways wind past Baroque palaces beneath Prague Castle. Lamplight gleams on carved doorways and wrought-iron balconies as you move from one local restaurant to the next during a progressive Dine-Around dinner, with savory steam wafting from a bowl of traditional Czech soup before you taste slow-cooked goulash. Back outside, the old quarter’s narrow streets carry you towards the Christmas market, where warm spices and baked sweetness drift between the stalls. Locations Visited: Wrocław PL, Prague CZ.
- Day 5 Discover Prague’s History and Christmas Traditions For your choice experience, you decide how to explore Prague: cross the courtyards of Prague Castle and enter St Vitus Cathedral, where stained-glass color falls across chapels and carved stone, or join your Local Specialist in the Jewish Quarter to hear the history, traditions and legends of its Jewish community. In Old Town Square, Gothic spires stand beyond a giant Christmas tree glowing above rows of wooden stalls. You meet a local stallholder, cradle a glass of Svařák and sip the warming mulled wine alongside Trdelník, a spiral pastry baked until golden and rolled in cinnamon sugar. Locations Visited: Prague CZ.
- Day 6 Germany’s Cultural Icons: Dresden to Berlin Crossing into Germany, you'll arrive in Dresden, where the pale dome of the Frauenkirche crowns Neumarkt, rebuilt after wartime destruction. With your Local Specialist, you move alongside the Procession of the Dukes, its mounted rulers stretching across a sweep of porcelain tiles, before wandering through the Zwinger’s arcaded courtyards towards the pale Baroque Dresden Cathedral and the richly sculpted Semper Opera House. In your free time, you may pause for Christstollen, a Christmas cake with medieval roots, fragrant with butter, candied citrus and almonds beneath a veil of icing sugar, or choose a traditional wooden Christmas pyramid before continuing to Berlin. Locations Visited: Prague CZ, Dresden DE, Berlin DE.
- Day 7 Follow Berlin’s History from Wall to Reichstag With your Local Specialist, you'll pass beneath the sandstone columns of the Brandenburg Gate and follow Unter den Linden past the State Opera House. You pause beside the weathered concrete remnants of the Berlin Wall, then look across the restored Reichstag as daylight glances off its glass dome and the Berlin sky mirrors across its curved surface. Later, perhaps browse the Weihnachtszauber at Gendarmenmarkt between the twin domed towers and the Konzerthaus, stopping at stalls of fine crafts as performers fill the square with music and aromas of festive dishes spill from heated tents. Then, join your fellow travelers for dinner at a local restaurant. Locations Visited: Berlin DE.
- Day 8 Say Goodbye to Berlin After breakfast, say goodbye to Berlin as your departure transfer takes you to the airport. Locations Visited: Berlin DE.
Name: Christmas Markets of Poland, Prague & Germany
Brand: Trafalgar
Quality: Superior First Class
Tour Type: Escorted
Start City: Krakow
End City: Berlin
Location Summary: Kraków, PL, Wrocław, PL, Prague, CZ, Dresden, DE, Berlin, DE
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Highlights
- Dining Summary - 3 Dinner (D). 7 Breakfast (B).
- Whats Included NOT IN USE - Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day..
- How You'll Travel - Business class coach with extended leg room. Top-rated dining, from farm-to-table to local restaurants. 4 & 5-star stays.
- Top Rated Highlights - Kraków: Take in the ambience with a walk around the magnificent Cloth Hall in the Market Square to see the Christmas Market.. Kraków: Join your Local Specialist to trace Kraków’s development around Rynek Główny and the streets that formed the city’s medieval core. You’ll see the layers of architecture shaped by royal patronage, mercantile guilds and university life, noting how each period left its mark on the Old Town’s pattern.. Kraków: Visit Wawel Cathedral with your Local Specialist, stepping inside the burial place of Poland’s monarchs and statesmen. You’ll see chapels added across successive dynasties and the cathedral where Karol Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II, served as Archbishop of Kraków.. Wrocław: Rated as one of the finest in Europe, Wrocław’s Christmas Market offers a delightful, fairy-tale charm. Enjoy an orientation of the market, located in Rynek, the historic main square which is surrounded by Baroque splendor and adorned with thousands of twinkling lights. Spend time exploring the vast array of stalls bursting with local crafts and tasty treats.. Wrocław: Get a taste of the forgotten varieties of gingerbread, traditional from Lower Silesia region. Using only local ingredients sourced from the nearby farms, these treats are a true delight and revive a lost regional tradition. . Dresden: Your guided tour with a Local Specialist shows you the Frauenkirche, the colossal 'Procession of the Dukes' mosaic, the cathedral, Semper Opera House and Zwinger Palace. You'll also learn about the traditional German Christmas Pyramids.. Berlin: Join your Local Specialist to explore Berlin’s imperial and contemporary character. Drive along the Ku’damm, once the heart of West Berlin, and pause at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, its ruined spire a striking peace monument. Pass through the Tiergarten to the Reichstag, then continue to the Brandenburg Gate, State Opera and Museum Island, home to Berlin’s oldest museum complex..
- Authentic Dining - Kraków: Dine in a local restaurant with your Travel Director and fellow travelers, enjoying regional dishes and relaxed conversation that marks the beginning of your travels together.. Prague: Begin your Dine-Around evening in Prague with a steaming soup and a taste of pear brandy or Becherovka - the herbal liqueur traditionally made in Karlovy Vary. Then, at a local tavern, enjoy classic beef goulash with bread dumplings and wine. Afterwards, walk on the Charles Bridge and explore the Christmas market in Kampa, where mulled wine and a Czech festive treat await. . Prague: At the Christmas Market, meet a local stallholder and savor a steaming mug of Svařák, traditional mulled wine, along with the local Trdelník pastry.. Berlin: Enjoy dinner of delightful German cuisine and wine at a local restaurant..
- Trafalgar Choice - Prague: Stroll through the Jewish Quarter with your Local Specialist to hear how the Jewish community has shaped the history of Prague, and visit the Old-New Synagogue and the Jewish cemetery.. Prague: Explore Prague with your Local Specialist, walk the courtyards of the Castle, and visit the imposing St. Vitus Cathedral. The city is then yours to explore. Maybe take a river cruise through the heart of the city, or walk in the footsteps of kings along the Royal Route?.
- Choice Highlights - Choose between two carefully selected activities. Prague: Stroll through the Jewish Quarter with your Local Specialist to hear how the Jewish community has shaped the history of Prague, and visit the Old-New Synagogue and the Jewish cemetery.. Prague: Explore Prague with your Local Specialist, walk the courtyards of the Castle, and visit the imposing St. Vitus Cathedral. The city is then yours to explore. Maybe take a river cruise through the heart of the city, or walk in the footsteps of kings along the Royal Route?.
