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The Wawel Royal Castle ( Polish pronunciation: [ˈvavɛl] ⓘ; Zamek Królewski na Wawelu) and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically and culturally significant site in Poland. A fortified residency on the Vistula River in Kraków, it was established on the orders of King Casimir III the Great [2] and enlarged over the ...
The Wawel Cathedral ( Polish: Katedra Wawelska ), formally titled the Archcathedral Basilica of Saint Stanislaus and Saint Wenceslaus, ( Polish: Bazylika archikatedralna św. Stanisława i św. Wacława) is a Catholic cathedral situated on Wawel Hill in Kraków, Poland. Nearly 1000 years old, it is part of the Wawel Castle Complex and is a ...
Website. www .wawel .krakow .pl /en. The Wawel Royal Castle National Art Collection ( Polish: Zamek Królewski na Wawelu – Państwowe Zbiory Sztuki) is the residence museum and collection housed in the historic Wawel Castle of Kraków. The collection was inaugurated officially in 1930, with its current name introduced in 1994.
Remains of the chapel (2010) St. George's Chapel ( Polish: Kaplica św. Jerzego) was a place of worship at Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland. It was both a royal chapel and the chapel of the commoners. The chapel was governed by the dean and canons of Wawel. The chapel was located in the outer courtyard of the castle hill.
Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument, Wawel Castle, Kraków. Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument in Kraków (Polish: Pomnik Tadeusza Kościuszki w Krakowie), is one of the best known bronze monuments in Poland. It is the work of artists: Leonard Marconi, professor of Lviv University born in Warsaw, and his son in law, sculptor Antoni Popiel.
The Wawel Chakra (Polish: czakram wawelski) is a place on Wawel hill in Kraków in Poland which is believed to emanate powerful spiritual energy. Adherents believe it to be one of the world's main centers of spiritual energy. [1] [2] [3] The Wawel Chakra is said to be one of a few select places of immense power on Earth, which, like a chakra ...
The Jagiellonian tapestries ( Polish: Arrasy wawelskie ), are a collection of tapestries woven in the Netherlands and Flanders, which originally consisted of 365 pieces assembled by the Jagiellons to decorate the interiors of the royal Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland. [1] [2] The collection is also collectively known as the Wawel Arrasses, as ...
St. Leonard's Crypt, with tomb of Jan III Sobieski. St. Leonard's Crypt under the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, Poland, is a Romanesque crypt founded in the 11th century (around 1038–1039) by Casimir I the Restorer who made Kraków his royal residence as the capital. At the end of the 11th century construction work began on the cathedral called ...