ONE DAY CATHOLIC TOUR – CZESTOCHOWA BLACK MADONNA
A full-day tour combining a spiritual experience in Black Madonna Shrine and a visit to a national park.
The Black Madonna of Czestochowa, also known as Our Lady of Czestochowa, is a revered icon of the Virgin Mary housed at the Jasna Gora (Bright Hill) Monastery.
The Ojcow National Park is Poland’s smallest national park near Krakow. The park contains numerous castles, including a ruined Gothic castle at Ojcow and a better-preserved Renaissance castle at Pieskowa Skala, both on the tourist trail of the Eagles’ Nests.
- Morning pick up from your hotel
- Enjoy the drive through the Polish countryside
- Visit the Ojcow National Park
- Visit the miraculous Black Madonna icon, the Basilica, and surroundings
- Participate in the Mass at the Black Madonna Chapel
- Enjoy dinner at an amazing folk restaurant
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You will be picked up from your hotel around 8:30 am (exact timing to be agreed).
You will visit the Ojcow National Park – see Pieskowa Skala, a limestone cliff in the valley of a river and its Renaissance castle, a 30 meters tall limestone rock called Hercules Mace Rock and the tiny chapel on the water.
After the visit to Ojcow National Park, you will drive to Czestochowa.
Visit the magnificent fourteenth-century Monastery of Our Lady of Czestochowa at Jasna Gora (Bright Hill), the biggest Marian Shrine of Poland and the home of the Black Madonna icon. You will have a guide (if possible, speaking your language, otherwise English).
Celebrate mass at the Pauline Monastery and see the priceless treasures, including the Miraculous Icon. Free time for a prayer and the Stations of The Cross.
Afterward, enjoy early dinner at a fabulous restaurant with the wooden architecture on the journey back to Krakow. You will try very old, ancient polish dishes which are hard to find in other restaurants There is a totally different and unique ambiance, pure polish Highlanders’ style.
Around 8 pm you will be taken back to your hotel in Krakow.
£155 / $205 / €175
Per Person
Price Includes:
• All transport in an air-conditioned private AC Mini-van/Bus
• English speaking guide/driver
• All entrance fees, local taxes as mentioned in the itinerary
• Traditional dinner in a folk restaurant
Price Does Not Include:
• Lunch
• Tips, Mass offerings
• Any additional expenses that are not mentioned in the itinerary
If you are 2-4-6 or even a big group of 20 people – absolutely no problem, we will organize it for any number and any date. Just let us now the number and we will send you a price accordingly.
And you have a choice to choose the date – through the whole year.
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