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Stanisława i Wacława na Wawelu ), também conhecida como Catedral de Wawel (em polonês/polaco: katedra wawelska ), é uma igreja católica romana localizada no monte Wawel, em Cracóvia, na Polônia. Com mais de 900 anos de idade, é o santuário nacional polonês e tradicionalmente tem servido como local de coroação dos monarcas poloneses ...
Early history. The environs of Kraków before the year 1257. The earliest known settlement on the present site of Kraków was established on Wawel Hill, and dates back to the 4th century. Legend attributes the town's establishment to the mythical ruler Krakus, who built it above a cave occupied by a ravenous dragon, Smok Wawelski.
Sigismund II Augustus ( Polish: Zygmunt II August, Lithuanian: Žygimantas Augustas; 1 August 1520 – 7 July 1572) was King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, the son of Sigismund I the Old, whom Sigismund II succeeded in 1548. He was the first ruler of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the last male monarch from the Jagiellonian ...
Coronations in Poland officially began in 1025 and continued until 1764, when the final king of an independent Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski, was crowned at St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw. Most Polish coronations took place at the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków , but crownings also occurred in Poznań and at Gniezno Cathedral .
Władysław II Jagiełło, sarcophagus figure, second quarter of the 15th century; in Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland.
Władysław I, sarcophagus figure, 14th century; in Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland.
The coffin figure of Casimir IV in Krakow's Wawel Cathedral was sculpted by Veit Stoss in about 1492.
