Wroclaw: WW2 Tour to Project Riese & Gross-Rosen Museum
ID: GYG215376-347973
Category:
Country: Poland
Duration:
08:00 hours
Description
Explore World War II sites in Lower Silesia. On this tour, you will visit the Mysterious Project Riese in the mountains and the Gross Rosen Concentration Camp and museum.
Your driver will meet you at your hotel and drive first to Project Riese which takes around 1.5 hours. It is a very nice ride through mountains and countryside. Once you arrive, explore the Project Riese site. Learn how Project Riese was the codename for an impressive construction initiated by Nazi Germany between 1943 and 1945, consisting of seven underground structures located in the Owl Mountains and Książ Castle. Explore this extraordinary network of underground caverns, all in different states of completion. See the Osówka site which is called the Underground City.
Then you can pause for lunch, or your driver can take you straight to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, a German network of Nazi concentration camps built and operated during World War II. The main camp was located in the German village of Gross-Rosen.
At its peak in 1944, the Gross-Rosen complex had up to 100 sub-camps located in eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, and on the territory of occupied Poland. The population of all Gross-Rosen camps at that time accounted for some 11% of the total number of inmates incarcerated in the Nazi concentration camp system. In the museum you will watch a short film about the camp and then you will have up to 2 hour to see the indoor and outdoor exhibition before your driver takes you back to your hotel in Wroclaw.
Highlights
- Visit Project Riese
- Explore secret tunnels
- Learn about the World War II history on Lower Silesia
- Visit Gross-Rosen Concentration Camp
- Watch a film about camp's history
Guiding languages
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
• Children must be accompanied by an adult
• Not wheelchair accessible
• The underground temperature at Project Riese is around 8-10°C, so you will want to bring a jacket or sweater
• You will get audio guides at the Riese Complex
• No audio guides are available at Gross-Rosen, but there are English and German information signs throughout the museum and camp
All areas that customers touch are frequently cleaned
Pickup is included from your hotel or other accommodation within the city of Wrocław.
When should I book?
To guarantee availability book as soon as possible. Early booking is worth consideration especially if you planning the trip during high season like public holidays or weekends.
Cancellations
This excursion you can cancel with no cost up to 48 hours before the start of the trip. If you cancel it after 48 hours or not show up on the excursion you will still be charged the full price of the activity. Being late on pick-up or departure will be considered as not showing up.
