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Wawel Cathedral. Kraków, Poland, Europe. Top choice in Kraków. Wawel Cathedral has witnessed many coronations, funerals and burials of Poland’s monarchs and nobles. The present cathedral is basically a Gothic, but chapels in different styles were built around it later.
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The fourteenth-century Wawel Cathedral (Katedra Wawelska), also known as Kraków Cathedral, is one of the most sacred temples in Poland. It represents an important testimony of the nation’s history.
The central place inside the cathedral is taken by the 17th-century canopy of St Stanislaus, bishop and patron saint of Poland, who lost his life in the 11th century in the wake of a conflict with King Boleslaus the Bold (Bolesław Śmiały).
Aside from the red medieval frontispiece and Gothic decorations that have become typical features of Polish cathedral architecture, visitors are reminded every hour of the church’s central place in Cracovian history, when a single trumpeter plays the so called Hejnal Mariacki from atop of St. Mary’s tallest tower.
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Almost all sites and buildings that create the unique ambience of Kraków can be found in the streets leading out from the Market Square or located in its closest vicinity: churches, monasteries and convents, palaces, old burgher houses and university buildings.
