Hotel Copernicus

Located in a Renaissance building on beautifully restored Kanonicza Street, the oldest in ancient town of Krakow, the Copernicus takes its name from the Polish astronomer who studied there. It offers a splendid change of scene and is imbued with history and elegance: the vaulted cellars with the sauna, small fitness and swimming pool, the terrace with its panoramic view of Wawel Castle.

Rooms: 29

Hotel Chain: Relais & Châteaux Hotels

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Hotel Facilities

General

Restaurant – Bar – 24-Hour Front Desk – Newspapers – Terrace – Non-Smoking Rooms – Elevator – Safety Deposit Box – Luggage Storage

Activities

Sauna – Indoor Swimming Pool

Services

Room Service – Meeting/Banquet Facilities – Babysitting/Child Services – Laundry – Dry Cleaning – Breakfast in the Room – Bicycle Rental – Shoe Shine – Fax/Photocopying

Internet

Wired internet is available in the hotel rooms and is free of charge.

Guest Parking

Private parking is possible at a location nearby and costs PLN 94.00 per day.

Hotel information

Today, the comfort and modernity are apace with the tradition. The testimony of the past epochs coexists with the daring modern solutions. Here, far away from the bustle of the city, our guests can rest in the chimney room among books and ancient prints, and taste more than 200 different wines in the retreat of the medieval wine cellar.

Food & beverage

Our guests are invited to enjoy fine meals in our Renaissance restaurant serving dishes according to the traditional recipes used at the court.
From the summer drink bar terrace our guest can enjoy an extraordinary panorama of the City of Krakow – with the majestic Wawel Castle, cupolas and towers of the churches, roofs and stones of the Old Town. During a cloudless night, one can almost touch the starry sky just as Copernicus who had observed it so often.

Room information

The Hotel has 29 room and suites of the highest standard (air conditioning, jacuzzi, satellite TV, mini-bar) with unique interior decoration. At every corner our Guests will discover vestiges of ancient times – medieval portals, precious paintings, inscriptions. In the course of the recently completed conservation works, the specialists revealed unique polychromes on the walls, dating from about 1500, and wooden ceilings covered with painted decoration, dating from the 14th century. The preserved fragments include figures of saints, preserved in perfect condition, large excerpts of inscriptions and floral ornaments.

Area information

Oswięcim (Auschwitz)

Oswiecim is a city of 50thousand population, located at the estuary of the Sola to Vistula River in the southern Oswiecimska Valley.
After the beginning of the II World War, Auschwitz was included into Hitler's Germany and between 1940-45, the largest concentration camp in Poland was there - KL " Auschwitz - Birkenau" (Oswiecim - Brzezinka). It consisted of 3 parts: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II - Birkenau, Auschwitz III - Monowitz, and the whole complex was combined of about 40 smaller units. Originally it was a camp for Polish, Russian, Gypsy and of other nationalities prisoners of war. Since 1942, this place became a witness and the centre of biggest mass extermination of European Jews in history. After deportation to Auschwitz, the prisoners were most frequently transported to gas chambers of Birkenau and then the corpses were cremated.

Wieliczka

Wieliczka is a small town near Cracow founded by the king Przemyslaw II in 1290 and famous since that time for one of the oldest guild of the salt miners and salt industry institution in Europe. Salt Mine Wieliczka is nearly 300km of the underground galleries situated on 9 levels and over 3000 thousand chambers reaching 327 m deep. Among the parts of museum, exhibitions available for tourists are galleries and underground halls, magnificent chapels, salt lakes, original medieval tools and equipment and several salt carvings and murals. Salt Mine Wieliczka was entered to the National Monuments Registry and included in Unesco’s 1st World List of Cultural and Natural Heritage. Recently, it has been acknowledged as the National History Monument.

Zakopane

The winter capital of Poland, a city of some 30 thousand inhabitants, located in the Podtatrzanski Gully surrounded by Tatra massif and Gubalowskie Plateau. The central part of the city is concentrated at the convergence of streams, which form Zakopianska Valley. The town is located at the height of 838 m. Before Zakopane was recognized a tourist resort, it served mainly as an industrial centre based on iron mining and manufacturing - Kuznice. The period between the 19th and 20th c. is the time of development and earning popularity by Zakopane as a place of tourist nad curable values.

Czestochowa

Jasna Gora Sanctuary in Czestochowa
It is the holiest place of Poland and one of the world’s most important destinations for pilgrims. The Jasna Gora (Bright Mount in Polish) sanctuary in Czestochowa, industrial city of 300,000 a ninety minutes’ drive northwest from Krakow, has been Central Europe’s spiritual hub for six centuries and it shows. Every year several million pilgrims – commoners as well as celebrities–come here to pray before the miraculous picture of Our Lady of Czestochowa. The faithful has believed for ages that St. Luke the Evangelist himself painted the divine icon on a tabletop from the Holy Family’s house. Anyway, over the last half-millennium great number of them have had their prayers heard and, grateful, left innumerable votive offerings displayed in the sanctuary.

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