Wawel Castle
Wawel Castle—Zamek Królewski na Wawelu—sets the tone for Poland’s history because it sits on Wawel Hill, overlooking the Vistula River in Kraków. The fortified residence was established on the orders of King Casimir III the Great, then enlarged over the centuries into a complex of buildings around a Renaissance courtyard. The site rises to 228 metres above sea level, and some of its oldest stone structures trace back to 970 CE, with early Romanesque and Gothic examples among them. The castle you see today was built in the 14th century and later expanded through successive eras, so it incorporates nearly all major European styles from the Medieval through Renaissance and Baroque periods. In 1978, Wawel became Poland’s first World Heritage Site as part of the Historic Centre of Kraków. …
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