Wawel
The Wawel Royal Castle and the Wawel Hill on which it sits constitute the most historically and culturally significant site in Poland. A fortified residency on the Vistula River in Kraków, 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.
- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of around 230 metres (750 feet)
- Description: hill in Kraków, Poland
Places of Interest
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Manggha
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Royal Archcathedral Basilica of Saints Stanislaus and Wenceslaus
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kazimierz and Półwsie Zwierzynieckie.
Półwsie Zwierzynieckie
Półwsie Zwierzynieckie is a neighborhood.
Wawel
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Latitude
50.05° or 50° 3′ north
Longitude
19.93333° or 19° 56′ east
Open location code
9F2X3W2M+28
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Ukrainian—“Wawel” goes by many names.
ՎավելArmenian
ВавельBashkir
WawelBasque
ВавельBelarusian
ВавэльBelarusian
WawelBreton
ВавелBulgarian
WawelCatalan
瓦維爾山Chinese
瓦维尔山Chinese
VavelCroatian
WawelCzech
WawelDanish
WawełDutch
WawelburchtDutch
monteto VaveloEsperanto
VaveloEsperanto
WawelEsperanto
ΒάβελGreek
ואוולHebrew
WawelHungarian
WawelItalian
ヴァーヴェル城Japanese
ヴァヴェルJapanese
바벨Korean
VavelisLithuanian
WawelNorwegian
WawelNorwegian Bokmål
WawelPolish
Wzgórze WawelskiePolish
Zespół Wzgórza WawelskiegoPolish
WawelRomanian
ВавельRussian
Вавельский замокRussian
VavelSerbian
WawelSerbian
ВавелSerbian
VavelSerbo-Croatian
WawelSlovak
Wzgórze wawelskieSlovak
WawelSlovenian
WawelSwedish
WawelslottetSwedish
ВавельTatar
WawelTurkish
ВавельUkrainian
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