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! Wawel: The Most Precious - English guided tour

duration: 140 min.

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12:00

On-line sales has been finished. In visit day You can buy tickets in box office if the ticket pool will be available.

“Wawel: The Most Precious” route includes two floors of the Castle, “The State Rooms” and “Royal Private Apartments”; the exhibitions “The Crown Treasury” and “The Armoury”; and the archaeological reserves “The Lost Wawel” and "The Art of the Orient". Also included are objects from the modern art collection, including the sculptures of Xawery Dunikowski. Wawel Royal Castle’s curators have selected fascinating spaces and priceless objects from the collection with you in mind. Now, you can see them all in two and half hours. To see everything that Wawel has to offer you need two days. If you want to see beautiful works of art and experience the unique atmosphere of the heart of Krakow – this route is for you.

• guided tour in English

• visiting time about 2 hr. 20 min., it leads through the majority of the castle chambers (1st and 2nd floor), archaeological reserves and other selected areas

The route is not available to children under seven years old.

The route begins at “The Lost Wawel” exhibition.

Map of the hill: https://wawel.krakow.pl/en/map-of-wawel-hill

The purchase of a ticket for the "Wawel Most Precious..." route entitles you to purchase a promotion ticket for the "Jakob Mertens..." exhibition for PLN 1

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0. Audio guide rental - it is also necessary to purchase a ticket for the exhibition

duration: 50 min.

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Audio guide rental does not include admission to the exhibition(s).

You must purchase the appropriate ticket to the State Rooms and/or Royal Private Apartments and/or Crown Treasury. If you buy admission tickets for more than one exhibition, you need to rent only one audioguide.

The audioguide is available in English, Polish and Ukrainian for the State Rooms, Royal Private Apartments and Crown Treasury.

We recommend the audio guide for visitors over 12 years of age.

The audio guide will be available at the entrance to the exhibition with a valid admission ticket.

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1. Armoury

duration: 40 min.

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The Armory exhibits various types of weapons and military equipment from the period from the Middle Ages to the 18th century (including parade horse lines). As part of the exhibition, you can see, among others a unique set of state signs - painted and embroidered banners, including a large court banner made for the wedding of Sigismund Augustus with Katarzyna Habsburżanka in 1553, a coat of the Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit displayed in the room entitled Rex Triumphator, several dozen silverware, several hundred other relics, from ancient times to valuables from the end of the 18th century.

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1. Crown Treasury

duration: 60 min.

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(1) 11:20
(4) 11:40
(6) 12:00
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The exhibition in a completely new arrangement! Significant objects connected to Poland’s history are displayed in twelve rooms. There are exquisite works in gold and silver, jewelry, textiles, and ornate parade arms and armor. The exhibition occupies the Gothic and Renaissance rooms in the north part and corner of the castle that from t 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. As part of exhibition, you can see, among others a unique set of state insignia—painted and embroidered banners, including the great court banner executed for the wedding of King Sigismund II Augustus and Catherine of Austria in 1553—are on view in the first room. The court banner is the oldest and largest preserved object of its kind. In the next two rooms, the golden age of the Commonwealth’s military is illustrated by equestrian equipment and parade weapons from the 16th through the 17th centuries the mantle of the Order of the Holy Spirit, the most precious several dozen silver-gilt parade vessels and several hundred priceless objects ranging from antiquity to the late 18th century. bilia related to the history of Poland of great value and importance are displayed in twelve rooms.

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2. State Rooms - 2nd floor of the Castle

duration: 50 min.

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(15) 11:20
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(10) 12:00
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(9) 12:40
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On-line sales has been finished. In visit day You can buy tickets in box office if the ticket pool will be available.

The “State Rooms,” the formal, public rooms of the palace, recall the interiors of the royal residence in the 16th and 17th centuries. They are decorated with magnificent tapestries from the collection of King Sigismund II Augustus, royal portraits, Italian and Dutch Old Master paintings from the 15th through 17th centuries, and Italian Renaissance furniture. Many of the rooms have colorful late-Baroque tile heating stoves that come from the Wiśniowiecki palace in Wiśnioweic in Wołyń (now Volhynia). Gilt-leather wall hangings adorn the Baroque-period interiors. Unique Renaissance portals with Gothic features, Renaissance stonework window frames, Renaissance and Baroque chimney pieces, and beamed ceilings have been preserved in many of the interiors.

The purchased ticket entitles you to enter the exhibition "Jacob Mertens and Krakow Painting..." from 13 January 2023

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3. Royal Private Apartments

duration: 50 min.

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(9) 11:40
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On-line sales has been finished. In visit day You can buy tickets in box office if the ticket pool will be available.

Once reserved for the royal family and their courtiers and guests, these rooms hold Renaissance furnishings, Italian paintings from the Lanckoroński Collection, and Flemish tapestries from the holdings of King Sigismund II Augustus. Several rooms retain their original 16th-century painted wooden ceilings and friezes. the President of the Republic of Poland. Wawel’s collection of Meissen porcelain and table silver from the so-called Saxon period (1697–1763; Wettin kings Augustus II and Augustus III) are on view on this floor.

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Jacob Mertens and Painting in Krakow around 1600

duration: 20 min.

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The purchase of a ticket to the "The State Rooms" exhibition entitles you to enter the "Jakob Mertens..." exhibition without an additional ticket.

The purchase of a ticket for the "Wawel Most Precious..." route entitles you to purchase a promotion ticket for the "Jakob Mertens..." exhibition for PLN 1

Jacob Mertens and Painting in Krakow around 1600 features outstanding, although little known works, most of which have never before been shown in a museum. Netherlandish in style, the paintings are the work of a master of detail born and trained in Antwerp, who settled and worked in Krakow. The penetration of Netherlandish influence into Poland in the 17th century is also explored. The exhibited works also serve as a lens through which to view the thriving artistic center that was Krakow in the Baroque era.

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