Included services: CHOPIN EXCLUSIVE TOUR / Tour CODE A-6 • accommodation at Sofitel Victoria, 5* hotel - Warsaw [4 nights including buffet breakfast] Guaranteed Date 2020 • transportation by deluxe motor coach (up to 49pax) or minibus (up to 19 pax) throughout all the tour • English speaking tour escort throughout all the tour Starting dates in Warsaw Ending dates in Warsaw • Welcome and farewell dinner (3 meals with water+ coffee/tea) Wednesday Sunday • Lunch in Restaurant Przepis na KOMPOT • local guide for a visits of Warsaw October 21 October 25 • Entrance fees: Chopin Museum, Wilanow Palace, POLIN Museum, Żelazowa Wola, Nieborow • Chopin concert in the Museum of Archdiocese • Chocolate tasting • Concert of Finalists of Frederic Chopin Piano Competition • Ballet performance or opera at the Warsaw Opera House Mazurkas Travel Exclusive CHOPIN GUARANTEED DEPARTURE TOUR OCTOBER 21-25 / 2020 Guaranteed Prices 2020 Price per person in twin/double room EUR 992 Single room supplement EUR 299 Mazurkas Travel T: + 48 22 536 46 00 ul. Wojska Polskiego 27 www.mazurkas.com.pl 01-515 Warszawa [email protected] October 21 / 2020 - Wednesday October 22 / 2015 - Thursday October 23 / 2020 - Friday October 24 / 2020 - Saturday WARSAW WARSAW WARSAW WARSAW-ZELAZOWA WOLA- WARSAW (Welcome dinner) (Breakfast) (Breakfast) (Breakfast, lunch & farEwell dinner) After arrival, you will be met and transferred to your hotel in See the Krasinski Palace with the Chopin Drawing Room Morning visit to one of the most splendid residence of Drive to Zelazowa Wola. This is where on February 22, 1810 the heart of the city. where Chopin performed his etudes, some polonaises, and Warsaw, the Wilanow Palace and Royal Gardens. It was Frederic Chopin was born to his French father and Polish Orientation walk through the Old Town to get acquainted mazurkas for the first time. There is a commemorative plaque the summer seat of the King Jan III Sobieski, the famous mother A museum devoted to great composer is located in with the city of Warsaw, a city of Frederic Chopin. See the in the front of the building. Walk to the Kazimierzowski conqueror of the Turks in the battle of Vienna in 1683. the preserved annex of the former manor. Museum contains Castle’s Square where between 1826-1831 a building stood Palace, seat of the Warsaw Lycee which Chopin enters You will see the beautiful royal interiors with the galley of copies of marriage certificate of his parents, Frederic’s belonging to Sisters Bernadine’s with a music school lead in 1823 and stop at the Zamoyski Palace, where Chopin’s portraits, as well as impressive collection of decorative art certificate of birth and baptism, manuscripts, drawings by Joseph Elsner, Chopin’s music teacher. Walk along the family lived and where was the famous Chopin’s grand piano and sculpture. The palace is surrounded by magnificent and letters and other memorabilia. Visitors are particularly Krakowskie Przedmiescie street with stop by the building of commemorated in the poem by Norwid “Chopin’s Piano”, park and gardens in a number of styles: a two-level Baroque drawn to the “mother’s room” where the huge bouquet of Res Sacra Miser. It was here where young Chopin was giving who said about Chopin “Varsavian by birth, Pole by heart, garden, a neo-Renaissance rose garden, an English landscape fresh flowers indicates place where Chopin was born. his first public concerts, at Namiestnikowski Palace and the global citizen by talent”. park and an English-Chinese landscape park. The Wilanow Lunch in Restaurant Przepis na KOMPOT (Recipe for Church of Nuns of the Visitations, as well. Visit the Holy Cross Church where the urn with Chopin’s Palace and Park are a part of the prestigious Association of COMPOTE) heart is places, brought by his sister secretly from France European Royal Residences. Located in the immediate vicinity of the birth of Frederic Chopin loved hot chocolate. Therefore we invite you to visit where Chopin died and before that asked for his heart to be Chopin is primarily natural, fragrant, aromatic Polish Old-Fashioned Wedel Shop – a former seat of the famous taken back to his homeland. cuisine, which is based on the highest quality products Polish chocolatier that started chocolate production in the including juicy, refreshing fruit orchards and the Polish firm 1850s and till today “Wedel” Factory is one of the most vegetables. Grilled, boiled or baked meat in the traditional famous brands of chocolate in Poland. Enjoy your time with way, are surrounded by colorful vegetables will satisfy any cup of hot chocolate in the beautiful interiors with décor connoisseur of the culinary arts. Polish Character in Music by Frederic Chopin in its finest interpretations to remind you of the splendour of the pre-war Warsaw and You cannot omit to taste also home-made cake served with place where famous Polish writers used to meet, such as: blackcurrant and raspberry jam. It was this kind of jam that Concerts of the finalists of the Noble Prize Winner for Literature - Henry Sienkiewicz, the George Sand prepared for Chopin when he used to live with author of “Qvo-Vadis” novel brought on screen by Mervyn her in Nohant. 18th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition 2020 LeRoy in 1951. Afterwards, drive to Brochów to see the parish church where Chopin concert in the Museum of Archdiocese and welcome young Chopin was baptized. It is also here where Chopin’s International Chopin Piano Competition is one of the oldest music competitions in the world. It was founded dinner. parents got married, as well as his sister Ludwika. There is by Prof. Jerzy Żurawlew (1887-1980) – extraordinary Polish pianist, teacher and composer. In the beginning it an inscription “Baptized in this church on 23 April 1810 was was a small contest with only 26 pianists from 8 countries, but throughout the years the competition gained Frederic Chopin, born on 22 February 1810 at Zelazowa more prestige and became one of the most important piano contests in the world. Wola. Afterwards, optional visit to Museum of the History of Polish Winning or being awarded one of many prizes in this special competition simplifies the future career of the Jews, a portal and place to begin an exploration of the world Continue to Nieborow to see the former residence of the Drive to Ostrogski Castle, a seat of the Chopin Museum. of Polish Jews presented in the main exhibition, the splendid aristocratic family of Radziwill. It houses a splendid collection participants. Among the prize winners there are i.a.: Lew Oborin, Stanisław Szpinalski, Aleksander Uniński, The cellar presents Chopin as a composer/pianist along example of the synagogue, many documents, letters and of art, paintings and sculptures including the Head of Niobe – Jakov Zak, Witold Małcużyński, Jan Ekier, Halina Czerny Stefańska, Bella Davidovich, Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, with his followers. The ground floor presents Żelazowa documentary movies. a Roman copy from the 1st or 2nd century A.D., made of the Adam Harasiewicz, Wladimir Ashkenazy, Fou Ts’Oung, Lidia Grychtołówna, Maurizio Pollini, Martha Argerich, Wola period, Chopin’s room when he was a child room, Mr. white marble. See the rich collection of Dutch ceramic tiles Garrick Ohlsson, Piotr Paleczny, Eugene Indjic, Krystian Zimerman, Dang Thai Son, Stanislav Bunin, Kevin Nicolas Chopin saloon and exhibit “ Warsaw in the times of Evening at the Warsaw Opera House to attend the opera or produced in Harlingen, magnificent library and collection of Kenner, Alexei Sultanov, Yundi Li, Rafał Blechacz, Yulianna Avdeeva. Chopin” . First floor focuses on Parisian life, Nohant and on ballet performance. artistic majolica produced in the called a “sculpture center” women in his life. Second and the last floor is dedicated to established by the Radziwill aristocratic family in 1881. Chopin’s European Journeys, his Personality and finally his death. Museum is fully interactive and most technically Farewell dinner to be served by the local family in their advanced. Each visitor receives a special token/chip which charming house set by the ruins of the former Lowicz Castle. guides individual tourists through the exhibition. The token It was the Dutchess of Lowicz who invited Frederic Chopin placed in one of the many readers allows to listen to the for his first concert in Warsaw. music, view rare manuscripts and listen to the information in many languages. The visitors will hear the noise of 19th Parisian street, sounds from the kitchen at Nohant mansion, smell the aroma of Chopin’s favourite violets etc. Beside the October 25 / 2020 - Sunday rare and precious 800 manuscripts and autographs viewers WARSAW will be able to see Chopin’s personal belonging including his clothes, coffee cup, handkerchief, pens and jewelry. Entire museum sounds with Chopin’s music except with the room (Breakfast) commemorating his death which will be dark silent. Departure transfer. Drive to the Royal Łazienki Park to see the famous Chopin Monument and the Belvedere, a Classicist palace where Chopin used to give concerts as a young boy, invited by the Grand Duke Konstanty. Attend the 18th International Frederic Chopin Piano Competition – Concert of Finalists.