Cruise to Tyniec including dinner in Benedictine Abbey

1. Cruise to Tyniec and tour of the monastery; Your cruise to Tyniec begins alongside the floating restaurant Aquarius, moored up on Czerwińskiego Embankment. Here, we help you aboard our stylish gondola for your trip up-river. Along the way we pass Pope John Paul II's House on Tyniecka Street, The Kościuszko Mound, The Palace of the Lasocki Family, The Premonstratensian Convent, St. Margaret's Church, The Railwaymen's River Club, The Camedulte Monastery on Srebrna Góra (Silver Hill), and The Villa of Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz.

This journey, which takes around an hour and a half, brings us to the picturesque monastery and abbey of the Benedictine Fathers in Tyniec, founded in the 11th century. There is time to look around the monastery before your return trip.

2. Cruise to Tyniec including dinner/supper in the abbey; Our cruise begins alongside the floating restaurant Aquarius, moored up near the Jubilat department store. Here, we board a gondola for our trip to the celebrated monastery and abbey of the Benedictine Fathers in Tyniec. Here, in addition to a two-hour tour of the monastery, we will enjoy a superb meal in this unique atmosphere.

Example menu from the Benedictine restaurant: weekdays: 1. Sister Salomea's fillet of duck in chanterelle sauce with cloistered dumplings and glazed carrots. 2. The prelate's choice: pork steak with crispy bacon, chips and tomato salad with capers; Fridays: 1. The provincial's salmon in horseradish sauce with almonds served with chips and St. Scholastica's vegetable salad 2. Trout seasoned with honey, jacket potatoes, and tomato salad with capers.

At the abbey visitors will have the opportunity to purchase traditional products made by the Benedictine monks. The website www.benedicite.pl

The event is available from 01.04 to 30.09.2008.