Royal Archcathedral Basilica of Saints Stanislaus and Wenceslaus
In the centuries after Poland’s Christianization under Duke Mieszko I in 966, a first church stood on Wawel Hill in Kraków—part of the early Christian center taking shape on what became Wawel Cathedral. That original building was eventually destroyed in the 11th century, and a second church, built in the 12th century, was wiped out by fire in 1305. Work on the existing Gothic cathedral began in the 14th century on the orders of Bishop Nanker, and later rulers expanded it into a layered whole that includes Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, and Neogothic elements. The cathedral is the official seat of the Archbishop of Kraków and has functioned as a national sanctuary and coronation site for Polish monarchs. …
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