TYKOCIN TOUR POLISH SHTETL

The name Tykocin was first mentioned in the 11th century. The town received city rights from Mazovian prince Janusz I in 1425. It became one of the favorite properties of Polish King Sigismund II Augustus who had a Renaissance castle built there. In the 18th century, Tykocin became a typical shtetl. First Jewish settlers arrived in the sixteenth century to Tykocin (Hebrew Tiktin).In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the synagogue served as an important intellectual center. In 1939 Jewish population of Tykocin reached an amount of over 2,500  people. On 25-26 August 1941 the Jewish residents of Tykocin were assembled at the market square and later executed in nearby Łopuchowo forest. Today the town looks exactly like before World War II. One can still admire the king’s castle, 18th-century monastery, and church, an astonishing 17th-century synagogue  built in 1642  as well as wooden houses more than 100 years old.

On the way back we may visit the Treblinka Extermination camp (optional and additionally paid)

ITINERARY :

• Tykocin Synagogue  dated from the 17th century  
• The urban layout including Kaczorowo where the Jewish society lived 
• Baroque parish Church of the Holy Trinity dated from the 18th century 
• The castle dated from the 15th century  partly reconstructed in the 21st century 
• Jewish cemetery in Tykocin one of the oldest Jewish cemeteries in Poland 

• Łopuchowo – the place of execution and burial of Holocaust victims in August 1941 

 ESTIMATED LOCAL CASH NEEDED:

• 60 Polish Zlotys – app. 13 Euro – per person
• Tykocin synagogue museum entrance fee – 16 PLN per person
• Treblinka Museum exhibition entrance fee – 7 PLN per person
• lunch en route (optional)

Duration: Travel by car 2,5 hours one way in total up to 12 hours 

For group of more than 20pax the price will be set individually. To get a price please contact via e-mail

(VAN for 1-7 passengers) – Driving & Walking Tour