Today Dad and i visited the famous Royal Wawel Castle in Krakow. It is an imposing structure with buidings from many different chapters of history with the Main Court designed and built by a famous italian Architect and Sculptor Fiorentino.
The friendly Lady taking us on a guided tour talked about how it was to live in this time and about the so called etiquette in court.
One of the kings had the ceiling adorned with hundreds of faces looking down at visitors – the result was rather scary. Several dozens of these still survive today.
Very quickly it became clear that our host had a real passion for tapestry – lucky for her the castle holds an impressive collection of these and that before they became the makers of the best chocolates the Belgians were very good at making tapestry.
Wawel Castle
For centuries this imposing structure served as residence of the kings of Poland and the symbol of Polish statehood
