Poland: Where Faith Forged a Nation
“Where medieval merchants, WWII resistance fighters, and modern artists forged a nation’s soul”
◉ Warsaw’s Phoenix Rise
- Handle original numbered bricks while helping rebuild a fragment of the Old Town
- Decode socialist realist murals in the former Ministry of Agriculture
◉ Kraków’s Underground Chronicles
- Play a 16th-century merchant in the Wieliczka Salt Mine’s subterranean chambers
- Develop photos in Nowa Huta’s last communist-era darkroom
◉ Gdańsk’s Amber Coast
- Sail a reconstructed Hanseatic cog while trading replica medieval goods
- Forge jewelry from Baltic amber with master craftsmen
Daily Rhythm
06:00: Market prep with Hala Mirowska vendors
11:00: Chopin’s piano restoration workshop
16:00: Cold War bunker escape room challenge
21:00: Vodka tasting with Solidarity movement veterans