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Welcome to the Wawel Royal Castle. The Castle and the Wawel Hill constitute the most historically and culturally important site in Poland. For centuries the residence of kings and the symbol of Polish statehood, the castle is now one of the country’s premier art museums. Established in 1930, the museum encompasses ten curatorial departments responsible for collections of paintings, including ...
Type: Castle; Description: mount in Cracow, Poland; Categories: building complex, hill, tourist attraction and tourism; Location: Kraków, Małopolskie, Poland, Central Europe, Europe; View on OpenStreetMap
The Dragon’s Den is a cave that formed some 12 million years ago in the western slope of the hill. It is also home to one of Krakow’s best-known legendary residents—the Wawel Dragon. The route follows 81 m of the cave’s total 270 m of corridors. Visitors tour the cave and exit onto the Vistula Boulevards.
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The first settlers in Wawel Hill date back to the Paleolithic period. Thousands of years later, during the eleventh century, the Polish monarchs built a Gothic-style Royal Castleon the hilltop. Throughout the centuries, the castle was reformed and its design was transformed into a Renaissance-style structure. When the capital was moved to Warsawin ...
Wawel Royal Castle is extremely big and has numerous points of interest. These are some of the most important: 1. Wawel Cathedral: Considered the country’s spiritual hub, Wawel Cathedral is an important symbol of the history of Poland. 2. John Paul II Cathedral Museum: Inaugurated in 1978 by Karol Wojtyla, the museum houses numerous religious artif...
Wawel Royal Castle is one of the top highlights in Kraków and is a definite must-see. The Castle is beautifully preservedand holds various interesting exhibits, even though numerous other historic buildings were demolished to establish a new barrack during the nineteenth century. The number of visits is limited per day to safeguard the Castle, ther...
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