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Smoko by Jasen71
Daily he rampaged on the countryside and threatened the terrified people of Kraków.
The King of Kraków, desperately worried
and sent his heralds far and wide to announce to the Royal houses and courts of Europe that whosoever could slay the dragon would - as a reward - marry his daughter and sit on his throne after his death.
Many great Princes and brave knights from all around central presented themselves to take up the challenge, but failed against the dragon.
One cold morning a young peasant boy named Krak, a shoemaker's apprentice, showed up at the palace gates to present himself. He had bravely offered his services before this time but had been turned down when there were other more noble volunteers, but by now the King was desperate and willingly accepted the challenge of such a humble peasant boy.
From the family recipe book, he prepared a menu: Three roast sheep with a stuffing of all the hottest spices and herbs he could lay hands on.
When dawn arrived, The dragon came out of his cave and found what appeared to be fat juicy sheep just sleeping there. The dragon, thinking this to be a nice tidbit, and being greedy as well as stupid, gobbled them up in the twinkling of an eye. Very soon he started to feel enormously thirsty. When the fiery spices and the sulfur hit his stomach, his singular, driving thought was to quench his raging thirst. He quickly ran to the Vistula river which wound it's way round his cave and drank... and drank... and drank...
The dragon's throat and stomach burned so much he was forced to drink half of the Vistula River, and as a result, his stomach kept swelling and swelling and eventually it exploded, killing him.
The shoemaker's apprentice married the king's lovely daughter, Leave a Comment Address: The Lair.. Wawel HillDirections: At the base of Wawel Hill near the river you'll find the cave/lair and statue of the most famous dragon in Poland,
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Wawel - seat of the Royal Castle and Cathedral - lies on a small hill above the Vistula river and it was here that the earliest settlements in the city began, some fifty thousand years ago.
Architecturally, Wawel is something huge and wonderful and really captures your attention. You have no doubts about its great history. It's like the spiritual home of the nation.
And there are some real jewels, like the exquisite cathedral chapels, the renaissance courtyard and the State Rooms themselves. You can also climb up the old bell-tower or burrow down into the Dragon’s Lair. All in all there is a wealth of things to do, not only for those dignified elderly folk, but for children too. Leave a Comment Address: Wawel 5
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The cathedral is in fact the third to be built on this site. The main body of the basilica was completed by 1364, but chapels continued to be added down the centuries. As late as the nineteenth century powerful aristocratic families were still vying to have chapels built here. However, the two jewels in the crown are certainly the Holy Cross and the Zygmunt, which were built centuries earlier during Poland’s golden age. These chapels, and the tombs that adorn the nave, are a good starting point in any tour of the building. Leave a Comment Address: Wawel 5
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 inside wawel by luigi_plLeave a Comment Address: heart of krakow
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 Walking up to Wawel
Castle by naruto
Wawel Hill open to visitors daily from:
Apr - Sept
6 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Oct - Mar
6 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Exhibitions closed on Christmas, New Year's Day, Easter Sunday, Nov 1 and Nov 11.
Permanent exhibitions are:
Royal Chambers - historical interiors, tapestry collection, royal portraits, Italian Renaissance furniture, Italian & Dutch paintings .
Tickets: normal 12 zlotys, reduced 7 zlotys.
Free admittance on Mondays.
-----------------------------------------------------------<br /> Royal Private Apartments - rooms where the Polish royalty lived, period furniture and art.
Tickets: normal 15 zlotys, reduced 12 zlotys (inclusive of guide service).
No day of free admittance.
English- speaking guides available at 11 a.m., noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m.
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Oriental Art - Turkish tents and banners, Turkish and Persian weapons and carpets, Chinese and Japanese ceramics.
Tickets: normal 6 zlotys, reduced 4 zlotys.
No day of free admittance.
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Crown Treasury and Armoury - regalia, jewelry, precious weapons, armors and caparisons; Polish and West European.
tickets normal 12 zlotys, reduced 7 zlotys.
Free admittance on Mondays.
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The Lost Wawel - archaeological and architectural reserve.
Tickets: normal 6 zlotys, reduced 4 zlotys.
Free admittance on Mondays.
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Dragon's Den - big cave said to be the fiery monster's hideout. (I did not get to visit this...)
tickets 3 zlotys.
every day 10 a.m. 5 p.m.
closed from the end of October till the May
Note: There is a daily limit on the number of visitors to each Wawel exhibition and box-offices issue ten tickets every ten minutes. Leave a Comment
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But then it starts to be really warm inside, so I decide to go outside for to have a breath of fresh air. The view outside isn't bad at all...:-) Leave a Comment Address: Wawel 5
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What is prohibited it attracts you more, right?:-) Hehehe... We decided to come back here again in the daylight and to see what kind of beauty was hidden from us that evening. Leave a Comment Address: Wawel 5
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And don't forget to look up to the roof. You'll see interesting little dragons which let the rain drop from the roof. Leave a Comment Address: Wawel 5
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 Wawel Castle in Krakow, Poland by jumpingnorman
"Wawel" is an architectural complex erected over many centuries atop a limestone outcrop on the left bank of the Vistula River in Kraków, Poland, at an altitude of 228 metres above the sea level. Also known as Zamek wawelski, the castle served as a royal residence and the site where the country's rulers governed Poland for five centuries from 1038 until 1596. A very important site indeed for the Polish!
Wawel hill has the form of a horst that originated in the Miocene epoch (23-5 million years ago), made up of Jurassic limestone dating back to the Oxfordian age (161-155 million years ago). The limestone is strongly karsted and abounds in caves and this could explain why the hill was originally called "wawel", meaning ravine in Polish. Leave a Comment
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