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Wawel Royal Castle

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Pieskowa Skała Castle

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All the King’s Tapestries: Homecomings 2021–1961–1921

duration: 75 min.

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The major exhibition All the King’s Tapestries: Homecomings 2021–1961–1921, which fills two floors of Wawel Royal Castle, is a once-in-a-lifetime event. For six months all of the tapestries from the collection of Sigismund II Augustus that are preserved in Poland will be displayed in the castle. The king commissioned this magnificent tapestry collection, specifically designed to adorn Wawel Castle, from the leading Brussels’ workshops in the mid-1500s. Now, for the first time since Sigismund II Augustus’s day, the entire collection of 137 royal tapestries, ranging from monumental figurative textiles with biblical scenes, through verdures depicting animals and armorial tapestries, to small tapestries meant to cover furniture, will be on view. Many of the tapestries have never before been put on public display. This symbolic return of Sigismund II Augustus’s collection to the walls of Wawel Castle in 2021 coincides with the exact anniversaries of two earlier homecomings. The first, which took place sixty years ago, ended the decades-long odyssey begun with the tapestries’ dramatic evacuation from Wawel in the first days of World War II. The textiles traveled a circuitous and perilous route through war-torn Europe to finally find safe haven in Canada. Their return to Poland twenty years later was celebrated on March 18, 1961, with the grand opening of a new exhibition with the tapestry collection in the starring role.

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Art of the Orient. Ottoman Turkish Tents

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The exhibition presents oriental art, chiefly Near Eastern decorative art, from the collections of Wawel Castle. Eastern art has played a significant role in the culture of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Carpets, banners, wall hangings, Persian and Ottoman Turkish arms and armor, are exhibited on two floors. The most splendid part of the collection are trophies from the Battle of Vienna of 1683 and historic objects associated with King John III Sobieski, such as three magnificent Ottoman tents. (The Wawel collection of Ottoman tents is the largest in Europe.) On the first floor, there is also a display of Chinese and Japanese ceramics.

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Crown Treasury and Armoury

duration: 50 min.

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The exhibition occupies the Gothic and Renaissance rooms in the northwest corner of the castle that from the 14th century onward housed the Polish coronation insignia and the crown jewels of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. On view here are priceless objects from the original Crown Treasury, such as the coronation sword Szczerbiec, heirlooms of Polish monarchs that have survived war and pillage, and splendid gold and silver objects created by Western European and Polish goldsmiths. A large collection of weapons, armour, parade saddles, and equestrian equipment dating from the Middle Ages to the 18th century is displayed in the Armoury.

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Dragon’s Den

duration: 20 min.

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The picturesque karst cave—the lair of the legendary Wawel Dragon—is one of Wawel Hill’s more curious features. The route follows 81 meters of the cave’s total 270 meters of corridors and exits onto the Vistula Boulevards next to the “fire-breathing” Wawel Dragon, a statue by Bronisław Chromy (1972).

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The Church of Saint Gereon

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The archaeological and architectural reserve located beneath the west wing of the Renaissance castle encompasses the relics of the Romanesque church of Saint Gereon and the Gothic church of Saint Mary of Egypt, as well as an ensemble of Romanesque architectural details.

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Pieskowa Skała Castle - Museum

duration: 45 min.

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The Pieskowa Skała museum is a branch of Wawel Royal Castle. Its modern, elegantly-designed exhibitions display superb works from the Wawel collections spanning a period from the Middle Ages through the 18th century. Works on view include exquisite Gothic sculptures and paintings by such recognized European masters as Joachim Patinir, José de Ribera, Jacob Jordaens, and Gaspard Dughet, displayed alongside fine period furniture, textiles, and decorative arts objects. With its Renaissance architecture, fine art collection, and magnificent views of the Prądnik River Valley, the castle is a hidden gem with something for everyone from art lovers and connoisseurs to hikers and day-trippers.

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