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Tips on Buying Tickets to Visit Auschwitz and Booking Day-Trip Tours

November 1, 2024September 2, 2023 by Henk Bekker

$Visitors on guided tours see only a fraction of Auschwitz-Birkenau but those on free tickets may explore further into the largely destroyed camp.$

Admission to Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps and museum is free but reservation tickets are essential while guided tours are good options to visit with transportation from Krakow, Katowice, or Warsaw. The memorial sites at the former Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in Poland near Krakow attract well over two million annual visitors. Admission is … Read more

See Da Vinci and Rembrandt Paintings in the Czartoryski Museum in Krakow

July 4, 2022 by Henk Bekker

Detail Da Vinci Lady with an Ermine in Prince Czartoryski Museum in Krakow

Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci and a rare Rembrandt landscape painting in the Princes Czartoryski Museum are the top artworks in Krakow and Poland. The Princes Czartoryski Museum in Krakow (Muzeum Książąt Czartoryskich w Krakowie) is one of the finest art museums in Poland. This exquisite collection with around 3000 items on … Read more