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Krakow: Nowa Huta Vintage Car City Guided Tour
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Krakow: Nowa Huta Vintage Car City Guided Tour

By Kraków Explorers
Free cancellation available
Price is £52 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
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Overview
  • Enjoy a comfortable ride through the streets in an authentic communist-era car
  • Explore one of the most interesting and more recent areas of Krakow
  • Take in the typical Polish Socialist Realist architecture of Nowa Huta
  • Immerse yourself in the most infamous sites of the city, like St. Mary's Church
  • Learn about the history of how the area was planned to be a utopian city

Activity location

    • Krakow
    • Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

    • Plac Centralny at the begining of Al. Róż. Arrival can be by tram or bus from a Krakow city center (trams number 4, 10, 22) buses (501, 502, 172, 139). The tour is started at a map of a city. Guides will park a retro car nearby.
    • Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland

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Krakow: Nowa Huta Vintage Car City Guided Tour
  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m1h 30m
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 15:30
Price details
£52.49 x 2 Adults£104.98

Total
Price is £104.98

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedLocal guide
  • What's includedWhat's included Transport by vintage car
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedFood and drinks
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded Tips

Know before you book

  • Not suitable for: Children under 7 years
  • In accordance with UK consumer law, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

What you can expect

Immerse yourself in an interesting lesson about the history of Nowa Huta and see typical examples of Socialist Realist architecture aboard a Communist-era car such as a Fiat, Lada, Uaz, or other.
Board a small time machine and take a guided ride through the streets of an ideal housing estate designed for the convenience of the ordinary workers of the Lenin steelworks in the 1950s.
Feel the atmosphere of those times, listen to stories and anecdotes about where the largest monument to the leader of the revolution stood, what cars they used, and how Polish people lived behind the Iron Curtain.
Imagine what the streets of Nowa Huta looked like thanks to numerous examples of functional architecture from that time and be given a comparison of the changes that have taken place.

See Plac Centralny and Aleja Róż, which are most vividly characterised by socialist realism architecture and the assumptions in the urban layout of an ideal city of workers. Take advantage of a great opportunity to take some photos with a real IS2 tank that took part in battles on the Eastern Front of WWII.
Next, visit St. Mary's Church of the Lord's Ark, the first church built in Nowa Huta after a long campaign by the local population, as there were no churches at all in the original communist city. The Church later became the symbol and base of the rebellion against the socialist regime.
Finally, learn about and see the main gate of the steelworks and the history of this company, which required the founding of a whole new city.

Location

Activity location

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    • Krakow
    • Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    • Plac Centralny at the begining of Al. Róż. Arrival can be by tram or bus from a Krakow city center (trams number 4, 10, 22) buses (501, 502, 172, 139). The tour is started at a map of a city. Guides will park a retro car nearby.
    • Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland