Bydgoszcz: Gniezno & Biskupin Tour

If you have enough time to participate in an interesting tour while staying in Bydgoszcz, we would recommend visiting Gniezno and Biskupin. Gniezno is a city that will always be associated with the beginnings of the Polish state. It was the first capital of Poland and here we will come across monuments that are sometimes even over a thousand years old! Second point of our program will be one of Poland’s official National Historic Monuments – the archaeological open-air museum in Biskupin. Here we will have the opportunity to see the remains of an approximately 2500 years old settlement located on a peninsula on the Biskupin Lake.

We organize private tours to Gniezno and Biskupin from Bydgoszcz on request.

Tour itinerary:

1. pick up from your hotel at chosen time
2. up to 1,5 hour drive from Bydgoszcz to Gniezno by a comfortable, air-conditioned car/van with an English-speaking driver
3. 2 hours of visiting the Lech’s Hill -The treasure of history (the whole complex surrounding the Cathedral in Gniezno) on your own with an audio guide in chosen language (the driver will take you to the tourism information point); during the tour you will have the chance to see:

• the impressive interior of the Cathedral including relics of St. Wojciech (Adalbert) – the first Polish saint with his reconstructed former tomb
• the Bronze Doors – also known as the Kingdom Jewel; it is considered to be one of the most valuable monuments of Romanesque art in Europe; it includes two cast bronze wings with knockers in the shape of lion heads; the 18 panels there represent scenes from the life of St. Wojciech
• the Cathedral underground
• it will be possible to enter the viewpoint of the Cathedral
  

4. as soon as we finish visiting the Cathedral we will walk to the Museum of the Origins of the Polish State, here you will watch a short film in English during which you will learn about the past of Gniezno and the whole region; the exhibition includes a collection of founded artefacts, valuable archaeological monuments and works of art (we will spend 20 minutes inside)
5. approx. 30 min. drive from Gniezno to Biskupin
6. visiting Biskupin archaeological open-air museum for up to 1,5 hour with local private guide in English or German; during the tour you will see the most famous archaeological reserve in Central Europe, including reconstruction of huts from the Neolithic times; the fragment of the settlement available for tourists was probably built around 700 BC, it used to be an oval settlement founded on a small island, surrounded by a wooden and earth rampart
7. approx. 1 hour drive back from Biskupin to Bydgoszcz
8. drop off at your hotel

Whole tour lasts up to 7 hours

Prices:

• 1050 PLN per person (1 person)
• 550 PLN per person (2 persons)
• 400 PLN per person (3 persons)
• 350 PLN per person (4 persons)
• 300 PLN per person (5 persons)
• 260 PLN per person (6 persons)
• 240 PLN per person (7 persons)
• Contact us (8 persons or more)

What is included?:

• hotel pick up at chosen time and drop off after the tour
• private transportation by a comfortable, air-conditioned car/van,
• the assistance of an English-speaking driver during the whole tour,
• entrance tickets and rental of an audio guide in English/German for the Lech Hill in Gniezno; it includes the entrance to: Gniezno Doors, the Gniezno Cathedral, the underground of the Cathedral, the view point in the tower, museum, Cathedral interior
• entrance tickets to the Biskupin Museum
• private tour with a local guide in Biskupin in either English or German for up to 1,5 hour