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Wawel Cathedral
Wawel Cathedral
Credit:
Jan Mehlich
The
Royal Archcathedral Basilica
of
Saints Wenceslaus
and
Stanislaus
on the
Wawel Hill
in
Kraków
is the spiritual heart of Poland. It was the site of
royal coronations
in the 14th–18th centuries and its crypts have been a burial place for
Polish kings
and
queens
,
bishops of Kraków
, saints, national heroes and greatest poets. The church is an amalgam of
Romanesque
,
Gothic
,
Renaissance
and
Baroque
styles, and its golden-domed
Sigismund's Chapel
is considered a gem of Renaissance architecture.
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