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Wawel Cathedral
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Wawel Cathedral – the Cathedral Basilica of Sts. Stanisław and Vaclav – is Poland's national sanctuary in the city of Kraków. It has a 1,000-year history and was the traditional coronation site of Polish monarchs. It is the cathedral, and thus the mother church, of the Archdiocese of Kraków. Pope John Paul II had considered being buried there.
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"Sigismund's Chapel" ("Kaplica Zygmuntowska") is one of the most notable pieces of architecture in Kraków. Built as a funerary chapel for the last Jagiellons, it has been hailed by many art historians as "the most beautiful example of the Tuscan Renaissance north of the Alps." Financed by King Sigismund I the Old, it was built in 1519-33 by Bartolomeo Berrecci.
A square-based chapel with a golden dome houses the tombs of its founder King Sigismund, as well as King Sigismund II Augustus and Anna Jagiellonka. The inner sculptures, stuccos and paintings were designed by some of the most renowned artists of the age, including the architect Berrecci himself, Georg Pencz, Santi Gucci and Hermann Vischer.
See St. Leonard's Crypt.
- Władysław I the Elbow-high
- Casimir III the Great
- Władysław II Jagiełło
- Kasmir Jagiellonczyk
- Jan Olbracht
- Sigismund I the Old
- Sigismund II Augustus
- Stephen Bathory
- Anna Jagiellonka
- Sigismund III Vasa
- Wladislaus IV Vasa
- John II Casimir Vasa
- Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki
- John III Sobieski
- Augustus II the Strong
- Adam Stefan Cardinal Sapieha
- Tadeusz Kościuszko
- Józef Piłsudski
- Władysław Sikorski
- Józef Poniatowski
- Adam Mickiewicz
- Juliusz Słowacki
- Cyprian Norwid (soil from his grave in France)
 Sigismund's Chapel, the tomb of the last Jagiellons and a pearl of renaissance |
 Waza Dynasty Chapel (left) and Sigismund's Chapel (right) |
 Tomb of king Casimir The Great, 14th cent. |
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 Bust near the tomb of St. Stanislaus |
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