Wawel Castle

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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  • Tourist attraction
  • …lies at an elevation of 231 metres (758 feet)
  • Description: castle in Krakow, the former royal seat
  • Also known as
    “Wawel”
    “Zamek Wawel”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Royal Archcathedral Basilica of Saints Stanislaus and Wenceslaus and Wawel.
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The Archcathedral Basilica of Saint Stanislaus and…
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The Royal Castle and the Hill on which…
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kazimierz and Old Town.
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is a part of Old Town district of Krakow in .
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The Old City of , referred to in Polish as Stare…
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is a neighborhood.

Wawel Castle

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Latitude
50.05394° or 50° 3′ 14″ north
Longitude
19.9356° or 19° 56′ 8″ east
Open location code
9F2X3W3P+H6
Open­Street­Map ID
way 785550415
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
6694847
Wiki­data ID
Q18820

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In Other Languages

From Armenian to Vietnamese—“Wawel Castle” goes by many names.
  • Armenian: “Վավել”
  • Armenian: “Վավելի ամրոց”
  • Basque: “Wawelgo gaztelua”
  • Belarusian: “Вавель”
  • Belarusian: “Вавэльскі замак”
  • Belarusian: “Каралеўскі замак на Вавэлі”
  • Bulgarian: “Вавел”
  • Bulgarian: “Вавелски кралски замък”
  • Catalan: “castell de Wawel”
  • Catalan: “Castell de Wawel”
  • Chinese: “瓦維爾城堡”
  • Chinese: “瓦维尔山”
  • Croatian: “Vavel”
  • Czech: “Královský hrad na Wawelu”
  • Czech: “Královský hrad”
  • Dutch: “Kasteel van Wawel”
  • Dutch: “Koninklijk Kasteel van Wawel”
  • Dutch: “Koninklijke Kasteel van Wawel”
  • Dutch: “Slot Wawel”
  • Dutch: “Wawel-kasteel”
  • Dutch: “Wawelburcht”
  • Esperanto: “Kastelo de Wawel”
  • Esperanto: “Kastelo Vavel”
  • Esperanto: “Vavela Kastelo”
  • Esperanto: “Vavelo”
  • Finnish: “Wawelin linna”
  • French: “Château de Wawel”
  • French: “château du Wawel”
  • French: “Château du Wawel”
  • German: “Königsschloss auf dem Wawel”
  • German: “Schloss Wawel”
  • German: “Wawel-Schloss”
  • German: “Wawelburg”
  • German: “Zamek Królewski Na Wawelu”
  • Greek: “Κάστρο Βάβελ”
  • Hebrew: “ואוול”
  • Hebrew: “טירת ואוול”
  • Hungarian: “Királyi palota”
  • Indonesian: “Puri Wawel”
  • Indonesian: “Wawel Castle”
  • Italian: “castello del Wawel”
  • Italian: “Castello del Wawel”
  • Italian: “Wawel”
  • Japanese: “ヴァヴェル城”
  • Korean: “바벨성”
  • Lithuanian: “Karališkoji Vavelio pilis”
  • Lithuanian: “Vavelis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongeslottet på Wawel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Slottet på Wawel”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wawel-slottet”
  • Norwegian: “Kongeslottet på Wawel”
  • Persian: “دژ واول”
  • Polish: “Wawel”
  • Polish: “Zamek Królewski na Wawelu”
  • Polish: “Zamek na Wawelu”
  • Polish: “Zamek wawelski”
  • Portuguese: “Castelo Real de Wawel”
  • Romanian: “Castelul Wawel”
  • Russian: “Вавель”
  • Serbian: “Вавел”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vavel”
  • Slovak: “Wawelský hrad”
  • Slovak: “Wawelský zámok”
  • Slovak: “Zamek Królewski na Wawelu”
  • Slovenian: “grad Vavel”
  • Slovenian: “Grad Vavel”
  • Slovenian: “grad Wawel”
  • Slovenian: “Vavel”
  • Slovenian: “Wawel”
  • Spanish: “Castillo de Wawel”
  • Swedish: “Wawel slott”
  • Swedish: “Zamek Królewski na Wawelu”
  • Tajik: “Дижи Вавел”
  • Thai: “ปราสาทวาเวล”
  • Turkish: “Wawel Kalesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Вавель”
  • Ukrainian: “Королівський замок на Вавелі”
  • Uzbek: “Vavel qirollik saroyi”
  • Vietnamese: “Lâu đài Wawel”

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