Wawel

The Wawel Royal Castle and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically and culturally significant site in . A fortified residency on the Vistula River in , it was established on the orders of King Casimir III the Great and enlarged over the centuries into a number of structures around a Polish Renaissance courtyard.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: hill in Kraków, Poland
  • Also known as: “Castillo Wawel”, “monteto Vavelo”, “Waweł”, “Wawelburcht”, “Wawelslottet”, “Wzgórze wawelskie”, “Wzgórze Wawelskie”, “Zespół Wzgórza Wawelskiego”, “Вавельский замок”, and “ヴァヴェル”
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Places of Interest

Highlights: Manggha and Royal Archcathedral Basilica of Saints Stanislaus and Wenceslaus.

Museum
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”Manggha” Museum of Japanese Art and Technology is a museum located at 26 M.

Church
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The Archcathedral Basilica of Saint Stanislaus and…

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The Wawel Royal Castle and the Wawel Hill on which…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kazimierz and Półwsie Zwierzynieckie.

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is a part of Old Town district of Krakow in .

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

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The Old City of , referred to in Polish as Stare…

Wawel

Latitude
50.05° or 50° 3′ north
Longitude
19.93333° or 19° 56′ east
Elevation
198 metres (650 feet)
Open location code
9F2X3W2M+28
Geo­Names ID
3082541
Wiki­data ID
Q743704
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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Wawel” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Վավել”
  • Bashkir: “Вавель”
  • Basque: “Wawel”
  • Belarusian: “Вавель”
  • Belarusian: “Вавэль”
  • Breton: “Wawel”
  • Bulgarian: “Вавел”
  • Catalan: “Wawel”
  • Chinese: “瓦維爾山”
  • Chinese: “瓦维尔山”
  • Croatian: “Vavel”
  • Czech: “Wawel”
  • Danish: “Wawel”
  • Dutch: “Wawel”
  • Esperanto: “Vavelo”
  • French: “Wawel”
  • German: “Wawel”
  • German: “Wawelhügel”
  • Greek: “Βάβελ”
  • Hebrew: “ואוול”
  • Hungarian: “Wawel”
  • Italian: “Wawel”
  • Japanese: “ヴァーヴェル城”
  • Korean: “바벨”
  • Lithuanian: “Vavelis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wawel”
  • Norwegian: “Wawel”
  • Polish: “Wawel”
  • Romanian: “Wawel”
  • Russian: “Вавель”
  • Serbian: “Vavel”
  • Serbian: “Вавел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vavel”
  • Slovak: “Wawel”
  • Slovenian: “Wawel”
  • Spanish: “Wawel”
  • Swedish: “Wawel”
  • Tatar: “Вавель”
  • Turkish: “Wawel”
  • Ukrainian: “Вавель”

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Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Dębniki and Stradom.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Hotel Poleski and Hotel Secesja.

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