ENIn the 16th and 17th centuries German lands were the favourite place of visits by young people from the territories of the Crown and Lithuania. One of the schools that existed in those lands was selected as the main aim of the travel whose purpose was to obtain education. Sometimes young people travelled through these lands when they were going to more distant centres in France, Italy, Switzerland and the Netherlands. At the beginning of the 16th century and during the Reformation universities in Wittenberg, Frankfurt on the Oder and Leipzig were among the most frequently visited ones. Later it was the Bavarian Ingolstadt. Mainly young noblemen travelled abroad. The poorer youths went abroad as companions to the wealthier ones. The wealthy young people travelled with their own retinues of servants and under the care of preceptors (tutors) and equipped with their fathers’ instructions and tips. Inhabitants of all parts of the Republic went abroad, mainly those living in Małopolska (Little Poland) and Wielkopolska (Great Poland), and least frequently those coming from Mazowsze (Mazovia).