Insight Guides Pocket Poland (Travel Guide eBook)

Insight Guides

Description

Perfect day itineraries and top travel tips in a pocket-sized package.

Plan your trip, plan perfect days and discover how to get around - this pocket-sized guide is a convenient, quick-reference companion to discovering fun and interesting things to do and see in Poland, from top tourist attractions like Kraków, Mabork Castle, Kazimierz and Wieliczka salt mine, to hidden gems, including Zamosc.

Compact, concise and packed with essential information about Where to Go and What to Do, this is an ideal on-the-move pocket travel guide when you're exploring Poland.

- Cultural: delve into the country's rich heritage and get to know its modern-day life and people
- Inspirational: discover where to go and what to do, highlighted with stunning photography
- Informative: plan your visit with an A to Z of advice on everything from transport to tipping
- Inventive design makes for an engaging, easy-reading experience
- Covers: Krakow, Excursions from Krakow, Zakopane and the Tatra Mountains, Malopolska, Warsaw, Wilanow, Lodz, Gdanks, Excursions from Gdansk, Torun, Poznan and Excursions from Poznan

About Insight Guides: Insight Guides is a pioneer of full-colour guide books, with almost 50 years' experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides with user-friendly, modern design. We produce around 400 full-colour print guide books and maps, as well as phrase books, picture-packed eBooks and apps to meet different travellers' needs. Insight Guides' unique combination of beautiful travel photography and focus on history and culture create a unique visual reference and planning tool to inspire your next adventure.

Sujets

• Travel
• Eastern
• Poland
• Europe

Informations

• Publié par: Apa Publications
• Date de parution: 01 août 2019
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781789196184
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

How To Use This E-Book

Getting Around the e-Book
This Pocket Guide e-book is designed to give you inspiration and planning advice for your visit to Poland, and is also the perfect on-the-ground companion for your trip.
The guide begins with our selection of Top 10 Attractions, plus a Perfect Itinerary feature to help you plan unmissable experiences. The Introduction and History chapters paint a vivid cultural portrait of Poland, and the Where to Go chapter gives a complete guide to all the sights worth visiting. You will find ideas for activities in the What to Do section, while the Eating Out chapter describes the local cuisine and gives listings of the best restaurants. The Travel Tips offer practical information to help you plan your trip. Finally, there are carefully selected hotel listings.
In the Table of Contents and throughout this e-book you will see hyperlinked references. Just tap a hyperlink once to skip to the section you would like to read. Practical information and listings are also hyperlinked, so as long as you have an external connection to the internet, you can tap a link to go directly to the website for more information.
Maps
All key attractions and sights in Poland are numbered and cross-referenced to high-quality maps. Wherever you see the reference [map], tap once to go straight to the related map. You can also double-tap any map for a zoom view.
Images
You’ll find lots of beautiful high-resolution images that capture the essence of Poland. Simply double-tap an image to see it in full-screen.
About Insight Guides
Insight Guides have more than 40 years’ experience of publishing high-quality, visual travel guides. We produce 400 full-colour titles, in both print and digital form, covering more than 200 destinations across the globe, in a variety of formats to meet your different needs.
Insight Guides are written by local authors, whose expertise is evident in the extensive historical and cultural background features. Each destination is carefully researched by regional experts to ensure our guides provide the very latest information. All the reviews in Insight Guides are independent; we strive to maintain an impartial view. Our reviews are carefully selected to guide you to the best places to eat, go out and shop, so you can be confident that when we say a place is special, we really mean it.
© 2019 Apa Digital (CH) AG and Apa Publications (UK) Ltd





Table of Contents
Poland’s Top 10 Attractions
Top Attraction #1
Top Attraction #2
Top Attraction #3
Top Attraction #4
Top Attraction #5
Top Attraction #6
Top Attraction #7
Top Attraction #8
Top Attraction #9
Top Attraction #10
A Perfect Tour of Poland
Introduction
Historic cities
Population and Religion
Rural Poland
A Blend of East and West
A nation of triumphs
Life post Communism
A Brief History
Foundations of the Polish State
Kazimierz the Great and the Jagiellonians
Swedish dynasty
Decline and partitioning
The aftermath of World War I
Nazi invasion, World War II and the Holocaust
Communism and Soviet domination
Pope John Paul II and Solidarity
The end of Communist rule
Historical landmarks
Where To Go
Kraków
Main Market Square and Old Town
St Mary’s Basilica
The Czartoryski Museum
Jagiellonian University
Old Town Churches
Wawel Hill
The Cathedral
Castle Highlights
Kazimierz
Excursions from Kraków
Wieliczka Salt Mines
Auschwitz and Birkenau
Zakopane and the Tatra Mountains
Zakopane
The Tatras
Małopolska
Zamość
Kazimierz Dolny
Warsaw
The Old Town and Market Square
The Royal Castle
St John’s Cathedral
Around the Rynek
The Royal Way
Jewish Warsaw
West of the Old Town
Łazienki Palace
Wilanów
Łódź
Main sights
Gdańsk
The Main Town
The Royal Way
Waterfront
Old Town
Old Suburb
Excursions from Gdańsk
Malbork Castle
Toruń
Old Town
New Town
Poznań
Old Market Square
Around Old Market Square
City Centre
Cathedral Island
Malta
Excursions from Poznań
Kórnik Castle
Rogalin Palace
Wrocław
Ostrów Tumski
The Old Town
Around the Market Square
What To Do
Shopping
Where to shop
What to buy
Entertainment
Sports
Children
Festivals and events
Eating Out
Where to eat
When to eat
Polish cooking
Soup
Starters
Main courses
Desserts
Drinks
Reading the Menu
Menu reader
Restaurants
Kraków
Zakopane
Zamość
Warsaw
Gdańsk
Sopot
Toruń
Łódź
Poznań
Wrocław
A–Z Travel Tips
A
Accommodation
Airports (lotnisko)
B
Budgeting for your trip
C
Car hire
Climate
Clothing
Crime and safety
D
Driving
E
Electricity
Embassies and consulates
Emergencies
G
Getting there
Guides and tours
H
Health and medical care
L
Language
LGBTQ+ travellers
M
Maps
Media
Money
O
Opening times
P
Police (policja) (see also Crime and safety and Emergencies)
Post offices (poczta)
Public holidays
R
Religion
T
Telephones (telefon)
Time zone
Tipping
Toilets
Tourist information
Transport
V
Visas and entry requirements
W
Websites and internet access
Y
Youth hostels
Recommended Hotels
Kraków
Zakopane
Zamość
Kazimierz Dolny
Warsaw
Gdańsk
Sopot
Toruń
Wrocław
Poznań


Poland’s Top 10 Attractions




Top Attraction #1
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Kraków
The former capital of Poland is still the country’s artistic and cultural centre and its most popular tourist destination. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #2
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Tatra Mountains
With their spectacular peaks they are a hiker’s paradise. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #3
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Wieliczka Salt Mines
With its extraordinary, ornately carved chambers, this Unesco World Heritage Site is a must-see. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #4
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Warsaw
A wonderful capital city, where history and culture come alive. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #5
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Zamość
Modelled on Italian trading cities, the Old Town is a 16th-century Renaissance jewel. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #6
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Gdańsk
The birthplace of the Solidarity Movement. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #7
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Sopot
Poland’s lively summer capital. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #8
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Malbork Castle
Built by the Teutonic Knights and one of Europe’s biggest strongholds. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #9
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Kazimierz Dolny
A confection of Renaissance and Mannerist houses. For more information, click here .



Top Attraction #10
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Kazimierz
Kraków’s former Jewish quarter is re-inventing itself while not forgetting its past. For more information, click here .


A Perfect Tour of Poland



Day 1

To the dragon hill
Tour the Royal castle on Wawel Hill, have lunch in Trattoria Wawel, then visit the cathedral where Poland’s kings were crowned. You might catch a short classical concert in one of the Old Town churches before dinner at Kraków’s oldest restaurant, Wierzynek (for more information, click here) .


Day 2

Students and synagogues
Enjoy a café in Rynek Główny, before exploring the Old Town. Café Camelot is nice for lunch (for more information, click here ). Later, go to Kazimierz. Dine to the sound of live Jewish music at Klezmer Hois.


Day 3

Medieval mall
Spend the morning searching for souvenirs in the Sukiennice, Kraków’s medieval market building, before continuing to Warsaw by internal flight or train.


Day 4

Warsaw rebuilt
From the top of the Soviet Palace of Culture you get an excellent view of Warsaw, with its modern skyscrapers and rebuilt Old Town. Take a tram to the Warsaw Rising Museum and then walk east through the streets of the former ghetto, for a more light-hearted afternoon in the Old Town, taking lunch in the Rynek Starego Miasta.