Wawel Royal Castle Images

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Wawel Royal Castle

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Crown Treasury (center) and Sigismund Tower (right) where the Sigismund Bell hangs since 1521. (Source)

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An older section of Wawel from the 14th century, now the Cathedral Museum. (Source)

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The Wawel complex, with the Cathedral on the left and Castle to the right. Over centuries, various styles of architecture have evolved side by side. (Source)

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Smok Wawelski, Wawel's legendary dragon (Source)

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Wawel Cathedralthe Silver Bell Tower with a coned roof and Sigismund Chapel with a small golden dome. (Source)

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St. Leonard's Crypt below the cathedral is a relict of an older temple built in the 11th century. (Source)

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The tiered arcades of Sigismund I the Old in the Polish Renaissance courtyard within Wawel Castle (Source)

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One of the State Rooms with Jagiellonian tapestries. (Source)

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A monumental coffered plafond in the Bird Room and fireplace of Sigismund III designed by Giovanni Trevano. (Source)

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Sigismund's Chapel: Tomb of the chapel's founder, Sigismund I the Old, and his son, Sigismund II Augustus. (Source)

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Anna Jagiellon's sarcophagus and tomb in the chapel. (Source)

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Wawel Hill, an 1847 oil painting by Jan Nepomucen Gowacki, the most outstanding landscape painter of Polish Romanticism under the foreign partitions.[26] (Source)

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Today, the Wawel is both a place of national pilgrimage and a popular tourist destination. (Source)

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A view on the cathedral from the Vistula river in the 1930s (Source)

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Replicas of the Polish Crown Jewels (Source)

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