许多调查证实,小波兰,也就是以克拉科夫为中心,大约350万人居住的地区是外国游客最喜欢到访的地区。这一地位是由本区域的旅游资源和便利的交通所决定的。
小波兰璀璨的明珠—克拉科夫,她以名胜古迹,不可多得的波兰城市氛围而闻名于世。而环绕克拉科夫,拥有350万人口的小波兰地区也不乏吸引的景点.距离克拉科夫最近的维里茨卡(Wieliczka)就可参观拥有750年历史的盐矿,在它的地下巷道和洞室里可看到众多由岩盐雕凿而成的精美绝伦的雕塑品.了解古时矿工的工作情况.参观位于克拉科夫西边的前德国集中营奥斯维辛以后,我们会陷入深深的沉思.在这里很多人成为纳粹的牺牲品.
在小波兰地区,值得一看的还有克拉科夫—琴斯托霍瓦侏罗纪石灰岩石群以及分布其上的中世纪城堡。最著名的有不太高,但非常令人称奇的石山—多瑙耶兹河(Dunajec)劈山而过。在最吸引人的一段峡谷中,山民们用传统的木筏载运游客漂流。
继克拉科夫之后,在小波兰地区游客最向往的城市是扎科帕内(Zakopane).它又被称作波兰的冬季首都。耸立于城市旁边的塔特拉山欢迎游客进行森林游。林中甚至还有棕熊的避难所。往上有高山湖泊边的羊肠小道引导游客直达海拔2500米的峰顶。扎科帕内(Zakopane)以罕见的木制建筑,丰富的区域风情,民间文化和山间旅游氛围而著称。冬天里滑雪爱好者汇集于此,等待他们的是海拔近2000米,起始于Kasprowy Wiech 的高山滑雪通道,为数众多的大型滑雪缆车站(Gubałówka, Polana Szymoszkowa, Nosal)以及分布于区域内的许多大大小小的滑雪通道。扎科帕内拥有丰富的住宿资源,从费用低廉但干净整洁,设备先进的小旅馆到提供最高服务水准的豪华宾馆无所不有。从扎科帕内往南的丘陵山区也非常吸引人。比亚乌卡. 塔特桑斯卡(Białka Tatrzańska)有非常著名的,线路长达十几公里,装备有新型缆车的滑雪场。游客们还可以在人Czorszytn 的人工湖泊岸边用餐。位于Kluszkowce的缆车站将他们载运到此。
小波兰地区的交通非常方便。位于克拉客郊外的Balice(巴里策)机场与欧洲以及美国,加拿大的40多个城市有定期航班。本地区有直达高速公路与西欧连接。
World Discovers Małopolska
Cracow, the best known of Poland’s cities worldwide, is rightly regarded as the gem of Małopolska, especially for its splendid architecture and unique atmosphere. But the surrounding region also offers many attractions. Very close to the city is Wieliczka, where there is a 750-year-old salt mine, with underground corridors and chambers containing delightful sculptures conjured up from salt rock by talented miners. A visit also affords the opportunity to learn about the work of salt miners in years gone by.
Visitors to the former Auschwitz concentration camp in the western part of the region will find much to contemplate. The camp was a place of extermination, where nearly 1.5 million victims of Nazism lost their lives.
The Cracow-Częstochowa Hills, with their limestone rocks and medieval castles, are well worth visiting, as are the Pieniny, a very charming mountain range through which the River Dunajec forces its way, and where highlanders carry tourists on traditional rafts through the most attractive gorge.
Zakopane is the second most frequently visited town in the region. It is often called the winter capital of Poland. The peaks of the Tatra Mountains overlook the town, and there are many beautiful walks through the forests, in which brown bears still have their refuge, or higher along the tracks running above mountain lakes to peaks which reach an altitude of 2,500 metres.
Zakopane is a town which delights with its unique wooden architecture, its temperamental regional folk culture and the atmosphere of a mountain tourist station. Lovers of skiing come here in big numbers in winter. What they can count on here are high mountain pistes running from Kasprowy Wierch (almost 2,000 m) and other big skiing stations (Gubałówka, Polana Szymoszkowa, Nosal) and numerous ski runs scattered all over the area. Zakopane has a huge number of places to stay, from cheap but tidy and well equipped small guesthouses to luxury hotels offering the highest standards of service.
In Podhale, an area north of Zakopane, there are also tourist attractions. Białka Tatrzańska with modern chair lifts and several kilometres of ski runs is becoming a very popular skiing station. Tourism near the artificial lake in Czorsztyn, where the station in Kluszkowce attracts many skiers, has also increased considerably.
It is easy to travel to Małopolska. The airport in Balice near Cracow has connections with over 40 destinations in Europe, the USA and Canada, and the region is connected directly to the west-European motorway network.