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  1. 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 ...

  2. People buried at Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, Poland. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Burials at Archcathedral Basilica of Sts. Stanisław and Vaclav, Kraków.

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  4. The first cathedral church at Wawel was probably built shortly after the Cracow Bishopric was established in the year 1000. Too little is known about the original cathedral to be able to reconstruct its appearance. More is known about the successive Romanesque church from the turn of the 11th and the 12th centuries.

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  5. Jul 22, 2021 · Wawel Cathedral (Cathedral Basilica of Saints Stanisław and Vaclav) is an iconic 14th century gothic building in Krakow in Poland steeped in the country’s history. Consecrated in 1364, Wawel Cathedral is located on Wawel Hill, one of the most historically significant areas in Poland, renowned as being the centre of the country’s power for ...

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  6. F♯. Earshot. 30 km (19 mi) [1] [2] The Sigismund Bell ( Polish: Dzwon Zygmunt or Dzwon Zygmunta) is the largest of the five bells hanging in the Sigismund Tower of the Wawel Cathedral in the Polish city of Kraków. It was cast in 1520 by Hans Behem and named after King Sigismund I of Poland, who commissioned it.

  7. History. The John Paul II Cathedral Museum is situated on Wawel Hill, between the Vasa Gate and the former seat of the Castle Seminary, in the Cathedral House, which was made up from two 14th century buildings. Its eastern part, adjoining the Vasa Gate, was formerly a tenement built in the time of Kazimierz the Great, which had been in the ...

  8. Wawel Cathedral is also the burial place of Polish monarchs. Originally, the kings were buried in burial chambers under the floor. The first king to have been buried at Wawel was Władysław the Short. The tradition of kings being buried in separate chapels, added to the cathedral, began following the death of King Kazimierz IV Jagiellon in 1492.

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