Teh Byzantine Frog

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a romanesque church

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an ordinary building, but nice

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Wawel - Krakow's royal castle
Bad pic.

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this tower is known as Kurza Stopa I think, "chicken leg"

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this fire-breathing dragon is an illustration of one of Krakow's legends. According to it, there was an evil fire-breathing dragon living under Wawel, and was killed by a brilliant young tailor named Dratewka, who set flamable substances inside sheep skin. The dragon thought it was a sheep and ate it. Then he felt a great thirst, but when he was attempting to quench his thirst, he exploded

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Wawel cathedral

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all kings since Wladyslaw Lokietek are buried here, with exceptions of
- king Alexander, who was, against his will buried in Wilno (Vilnius)
- king August II (Frederic August of Saxony) who was, also against his will, buried in Saxony
I don't know about August III
- Stanislaw August Poniatowski, who was buried in Petersburg, later in Wolczyn, and eventually in Warsaw
- polish kings - tzars of Russia

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above the entrance to the cathedral

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this chapel, funded by Wladyslaw Jagiello, is an unique combination of gothic architecture and byzantine paintings

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one of the royal tombs - unfortunatelly, my camera sucks, so the pics from inside are not going to be good

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another one

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Sigismund chapel is the pearl of the cathedral. It is covered with gold from outside, and inside, it is of unique beauty. It was even called the greatest accomplishement of renaissance north to Alps.
It contains graves of three kings of golden age of Poland - Sigismund the Elder, Sigismund August and Anne. While Anne is often neglected in lists of polish kings, she was second, after Hedugis, female king of Poland

The chapel is closed and it's hard to make a photo from behind the bars

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the dome of the chapel