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or centuries Cracow was the capital of Poland, the seat of kings,
destination place of great scholars and renowned artists. Their
presence and impact on the city’s culture is creating a real genius
loci – perfect place of Cracow. We will start our stroll on the
Wawel Castle dominated with prime examples of XVI centaury Italian
Renaissance architecture. Royal Courtyard will move you back in
time to knight’s skirmishes and lavishness of royal ceremonies.
Cathedral with all its chapels and bu
is a firm and research center created out of passion for guiding,
history and genealogy. This is the first project in Central Europe
combining those three fields in order to provide high quality,
individual travel and research services for visitors with different
backgrounds and expectations. The firm was created in 2000 in
Cracow and has been directed since then by Tomasz Cebulski.
he Jews, after few centuries of presence on the Polish territories,
left here many traces of their existence. Even nowadays we can
admire the architecture of synagogues and praying houses, listen to
the Hassidic melodies and read Jewish literature by Julian Tuwim or
Isaac Beshevis Singer. Towns and rural archives, register offices,
cemetery books include whole abundance of information about that
world, which almost entirely perished in the flames of the
Holocaust. Discovering complicated lots of
) in the center of a Shtetl, with a well in the very middle. Water
for inhabitants was brought by carriers who delivered buckets full
of water on their shoulders all over the town. Houses of wealthier
Jews were situated round the marketplace, sometimes built of brick
having balconies or porches. On the ground floor there were windows
of shops, groceries and different hardware and soft goods stores
with big signs written in Yiddish. Jews brought this language with
them from Germany and very soon
ll our travel itineraries are designed individually taking into
consideration our guest’s background, interest in Poland, time
frame and other factors crucial for the success of your visit.
Usually the most important is the time spent in the area of
genealogical research. On the way and during your stay in Poland,
it will be definitely worth to visit some other historically
interesting places which you can find in our
in Poland and todays Ukraine are testimonies of the route taken by
the Goidels or Gaidheil tribes, in their migration into Europe from
a place somewhere in Asia Minor. According to another theory the
name Galicia (ukr. Halychyna) derives from Halicz (ukr. Halych),
town which in 1140 became the seat of the first prince of Galicia,
called Vladimir. The Name Halicz itself derives from Ukrainian word
"halka" meaning "crow" in English. That is why there is a crow on
the coat of arms of this land. At
