Blue sky view, west across garden courtyard, to Sigismund's Chapel, Vasa Chapel, Silver Bells Tower, Wawel Cathedral, Cracow
The gold dome Sigismund's Chapel (right background), financed by Sigismund I the Old, was built 1517-1533 by the Florentine Renaissance architect, Bartolommeo Berrecci. It houses the tombs of Sigismund the Old and his children, Sigismund II Augustus and Anna Jagiellon. The Baroque Vasa Chapel, to the left, was planned in 1598 as the funerary chapel of the Vasa Kings, Sigismund III, Wladyslaw IV and John II Casimir. The Silver Bells Tower, to the left of the Vasa Chapel, houses three bells. The lower stone part was built in the first half of the 12th century. The rectangular brick part was added in the late 14th century. In 1530 another storey was added and a decorative late Gothic spire replaced by a pyramid roof in in 1769. Early morning portrait looking west across a garden courtyard once used as a military parade ground when Cracow was annexed by the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Size: 2211px × 2704px
Location: Portrait Sigismund's Chapel, Vasa Chapel, Silver Bells Tower, Wawel Cathedral, Cracow, Poland
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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