In Berlin, see the Brandenburg Gate and Jewish Holocaust Memorial. View Dresden's treasures and sample local wines at Wackerbarth Manor. In Krak?w, whose historic center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, see Pope John Paul II's church and Oskar Schindler's factory. In Czestochowa, view the Black Madonna, Poland's holiest icon.
Before leaving Berlin, visit the Jewish Museum,
the New Berlin Synagogue and the recently unveiled Jewish
Memorial to victims of the Holocaust. Alternatively, privately
visit Europe's largest synagogue. Transfer to the Kempinski Hotel
Taschenbergpalais in Dresden. Explore the city to see the Baroque
Zwinger Palace, housing Raphael's Sistine Madonna, the Dresden
Royal Palace and its New Green Vault. Travel into Saxony to visit
vineyards around Wackerbarth Manor and sample local wines.
Days 4-5: Dresden
Fly to Krak?w and check in to the Sheraton Krakow
Hotel. Embark on a full-day tour of this city, one of UNESCO's
12 great historic cities of the world. Visit the Royal Castle and
Cathedral, the main church of the former Cardinal Wojtyls
who became the late Pope John Paul II; the fascinating Galicia
Jewish Museum and Oskar Schindler's factory. At Auschwitz-
Birkenau, pause to remember the four million victims of this Nazi
concentration camp.
Days 6-8: Krakow
Stop in Czestochowa to visit the Pauline Monastery
of Jasna Gora, which houses the 15th-century painting Black
Madonna, the holiest icon in Poland. Continue to your boutique
hotel in Warsaw, Le Regina. Visit the most important sights of
Jewish Warsaw: the former Jewish ghetto, the Nozyk Synagogue,
the Jewish Theater, the Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto and
the Umschlagplatz Wall Monument. This evening, attend a private
Chopin piano concert.