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Nearby, stood the Paul and Peter Church dating to the 17th century which had been built with a mission to refute “reformation apostles” from outside Catholic Poland, as our guide said.
Their instruments were the reconstruction of the instruments of that era, except for the violin which was new.
From the Wawel Hill I could see the Vistula River, Poland’s longest and most important, which connected Krakow to Warsaw.
In the Orsza Hall (named after the site of the Polish and Lithuanian victory over the Muscovites in 1514) I saw four musicians performing.
in the corners of the rooms were the reminder of the way the place had been kept warm. I also noted that some walls had cordovan fabric coverings. In several rooms the walls displayed portraits of the former royal occupants of the Palace, including King Sigismund I.
This museum in the Palace was also distinguished by a remarkable collection of various types of Flemish and French tapestries dating from the middle of the 1700s. There were figural tapestries, depicting scenes from the Old Testament, “verdures” tapestries, showing real and fantastic animals with a landscape background.
the Planets Room, the Bird Room, the Orsza Hall, and the Hall of Deputies. This last was also called the Heads Hall because of the 30 separate wooden painted heads carved in its ceiling.
...and tapestries with compositions of the coats of arms of Poland and Lithuania, allies in the Commonwealth that ruled Poland in the late 16th century.
The Wawel Palace was a three-story Renaissance structure built around a courtyard within a brick wall. The wall was added by the invading Austrians who occupied the Palace in the late 18th century and turned it into army barracks. Refurbished, the Palace is now a museum.
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